Our 2012 Travels Begin

Bright and early this morning, B was up and off to his brand new job. It's a pretty exciting thing for all of us, and I can't wait to hear how his first day went. After giving his two weeks to his previous company, he had a few things to wrap up, and by the time that he was done he had Thursday and Friday of last week off. While he could have spent it relaxing, or working on our bathroom renovation, we planned a little last minute road trip... to Ottawa.


Now, if you're in Ontario and were watching the news, or even looked out your window last week, you'd know Thursday was the worst day this winter to be on the roads - especially travelling to Ottawa. However, we'd checked the weather the night before and it said just light snow, so we booked a hotel on Hotwire, and headed out at 6:30 on Thursday morning. Of course, what is normally a 4.5 hour drive, took us over 6, as we took it slow to ensure we arrived safely. I don't even think I could begin to tell you how happy I was to roll into our beautiful hotel room at the Hotel Indigo that afternoon...

We've stayed here twice before, as a twosome, and both times were thrilled with the room and the service. So when we booked on Hotwire and saw this hotel pop up as the one we booked we were thrilled! Actually, here's a fun tidbit about our history with this hotel, we were eating dinner in the hotel's restaurant when we found out that our offer on our home was accepted. Fun right? 


After settling into our room and warming up, I called one of my friends and we made plans to drive to her place for dinner. Sadly, once we got on the roads they were incredibly slow because of traffic and weather, so we had to cancel and headed back to a diner, around the corner from our hotel, to eat.

After B and I filled ourselves with some delicious comfort food, we ordered a slice of cheesecake to go and headed back to the hotel. Once we were there we curled up, played with Halle, watched some hockey, and then B and I enjoyed our cheesecake and we relaxed together for the rest of the night...

Friday morning, the snow and freezing rain continued so we decided to take our time since checkout wasn't until noon. I called down for room service and then jumped online to check weather and highway conditions before we checked out. After discussing booking into the hotel for another night, we decided against it. We were told that the storm would die off by early evening, and we figured we could just visit with friends until then. With that decision made, we took our time to enjoy breakfast in bed...

After eating, we packed up our bags and headed out to visit a girlfriend of mine whose due date was yesterday! We hadn't seen each other since my baby shower in May, so it was great for her to meet Halle, and to give her, her baby gift as well as a bunch of the clothes that Halle has outgrown. 

We visited for a few hours, then planned to get on the road. However, once we started driving, my confidence in the weather and road conditions vanished quite quickly. We killed some time in a few stores and Starbucks, before driving out to my friends house that we didn't make it to the previous night. The plan was to stay for dinner and then hit the road, but again, those plans changed after we checked the road conditions. It worked out well though, since the sight of our two little one's playing was the best sight ever...

We got to stay overnight and get a lot of visiting in. We hit the road bright and early on Saturday morning, and were back at our place by early afternoon. Just enough time for my Dad to come over and spend some time helping B out in the bathroom. I'll be back tomorrow with more bathroom updates! I can't wait to have it finished, and we are finally getting there!