After the wedding, Dick and Hannah surprised us with a stay at the Grand America!! They gave us the honeymoon package, which included complimentary robes, slippers, chocolates, and a $100 credit. We used the credit to get room service day and night, and to buy delicious macarons from La Bonne Vie.
That morning we were standing by the window looking out our view of Salt Lake from the 23rd floor. Giuseppe noticed that the building in front (and below) us was the Infinity Center, where we had our first date! We were laughing imagining us telling our February 2014 selves that in less than a year we would be celebrating our wedding night in the building next to us.
We LOVE the Grand America!
(We dressed up nice because we planned on going to church. Siri AND google maps took us to seven different faulty locations. Annoyinggggg!)
Next stop: Pagosa Springs, Colorado. AKA a little piece of heaven!
Giuseppe's dad let us stay at his time share. We got a little condo to ourself for a week with a furnished kitchen and jacuzzi!
We frequented a little video rental store, went to mom and pop restaurants, made friends with the locals, and experienced the outdoors!
A breakdown of our week:
- We rented a sled from the activities center and took it to the golf course because apparently it's a GOLDEN spot for sledding. I don't know what the workers were talking about, because the hills were steep enough to get us out of breath while walking up, but not steep enough for us to actually slide down. After giving up, we tried to leave but the snow wouldn't let us!
Thanks to this babe's hard work, we were able to finally leave!
(There was only one shovel.)
Location #2 was more successful: It wasn't very steep, but it was beautiful and the snow wasn't as high!
- Visiting the SPRINGS was heavenly! 18 little natural pools, some with waterfalls. It was snowing outside and we ordered frosty drinks and soaked. So much fun! No pics were taken, sorry.
- We found a tubing hill that was SO FUN! We chatted with the owner for a while and found out that he was inspired to start this business after he drove past the sledding hill in Parley's canyon driving to and from Park City every day when he lived in Salt Lake.
- Ice skating! This wasn't a very good bonding experience because I don't trust Giuseppe's stability on ice and I wouldn't let him near me. I'm kind of a baby when it comes to ice skating. But it really was fun! Giuseppe was able to do some cool tricks and not hurt himself, so I would consider the event a success. We asked two girls to take a picture of us on our phone, and right as she was about to take the picture, the phone died from the cold! She then gave us her phone so that we could take a picture of the two of them, but right as we were about to take it, her phone died! So no pics once again.
- On our last full day, we drove up to Wolf Creek, a ski resort. We had pretty much used up all of our funds at that point, so we just watched.
- We loved eating out! We went to a delicious sushi restaurant and ordered some of our favorites: maki, tempura, mochi, and edamame. We had a delicious breakfast at a hipster place called "Two Chicks And A Hippie". We went to one of the many breweries and ordered their "famous" homemade root beer. It wasn't good at all, and brave Giuseppe asked to switch it out.
Three cheers for Pagosa Springs! We'll be visiting again one day.
Hey, this is more like Midway than ever, we even have CHICK'S cafe, and I saw a Hippie there!
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