It’s Been Three Days?

This week has been a blur.  I have a lot of things to attend to, but wanted to take a moment to reflect on the weekend.  Because I never shared anything about it, and because right now I need a reminder of how relaxed and wonderful I felt!
E. and I drove up to Kalahari resort early in the day on Saturday.  We arrived around 2ish, and immediately hit the water park. Um, yeah.  There are no words.  The place is almost perfectly designed for both adults and children and everything in between.  We had fun on the waterslides (except for one called the Pro Bowl, which dumped me into a metal bowl where I promptly conked my head) and spent time in between soaking in one of the 8 hot tubs located throughout the park.  We floated on a two-person rafty/intertube thing along the lazy river.  Twice.  We considered hitting the hot-tub side bar, but decided to save our drinks for later.  The only thing we never hit was the surfing.  I know!  I was so excited…but the line was long, I got a little chicken-y, and we agreed we’d rather learn to surf in California anyway.
For dinner, we went to a restaurant in the resort that had an all you can eat crab leg and prime rib buffet.  Plus a huge assortment of other dishes, sides, salads, and desserts.  I was fairly good in that I only ate crab legs (no butter), a baked potato, and some salad.  But oh man, I ate wayyyy more than one portion of crab legs.
We also had yummy margaritas.
While we had plans to “let our food digest” and then hit the arcade, we ended up flopping on the bed in the hotel room and promptly sleeping for 4 hours. Soooo needed.
Sunday was the Easter brunch, and more stuffing our faces.  Creme brulee french toast, applewood smoked bacon, chicken wings, fruit, more prime rib, shrimp cocktail, a table of desserts and a chocolate fountain.  Mostly I filled up on the french toast, bacon, and chocolate dipped strawberries.
We weren’t sure we wanted to go through all the fuss of getting into the waterpark for only an hour of time after that, so we curled up in front of the fireplace in the lobby until we decided to head out.  We also drove around Madison, WI on our trip home.  I had heard it was pretty, and it is, but when you live in a city like Chicago most non-major cities end up being a little anticlimactic.
By this time I was starting to get hit with my sinus infection so most of the rest of the trip, I slept. 
I slept a lot.  And relaxed a lot.  And ate, a LOT.  It was wonderful.
I keep pestering E. that I want to go away again this weekend.   It’s amazing what just a couple days away can do!