Showing posts with label Hotel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hotel. Show all posts

The Good Ole Patriotic Comfort Suites

Posted on 9:35 PM In: , , ,
Joseph and I went to Florida for the weekend to visit some family. My cousin had graduated high school and my aunt and uncle were throwing him a party. My mother had used some of my father's hotel points to get us a Hotel room at the Comfort Suites in Tampa.
We arrived at the Comfort Suites around midnight on Friday night. Walking into the lobby, my first thought was, "Gee, our fore fathers puked up patriotism all over the place."


After checking in, I practically fell into bed already asleep without taking in any more of my environment… Girl was tired! The next morning I got up to take a shower and was startled by the ugliest sight I had ever seen: Me, under the worst fluorescent lights in the world. They managed to not only turn my ridiculously pale skin even more pale, but also slightly blue and green and every single blemish stood out in sharp detail. I don't even want to discuss what that awful light did to my wonderfully highlighted hair.

Ignoring the mirror as much as possible, I climbed in the shower to try and scrub off the ugly only to emerge and notice that the lights still sucked all the pretty off my face.

Not even applying make up appeared to help with the horrible lighting so I woke Joseph up as I turned on every light in the hotel and opened the curtains in the hopes to get enough normal light to use the mirror in the room. If I sat on the dresser and tilted my head just right, I got enough light to discover the pretty.

I returned to the bathroom to dry my hair, and not even fluorescent lighting could combat freshly applied makeup. I snickered at the tag for the hair dryer.


I know that this is a common warning but apparently today I'm easily amused. Keep away from water? Well, I can keep it away from pools of water but I'm afraid if I keep it away from water then I won't be able to actually dry the water out of my hair. I'll just use my tagless dryer that doesn't deter me from putting it near water.

There were two good things about that room though. The first: the full length mirror was made to make me look skinny. And second: a/c that I could crank up and not have to worry about paying for.

Anniversary Weekend

Posted on 7:58 PM In: , , , , ,
Joseph and I celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary this past weekend. We headed to Atlanta and stayed the night there.

If you know Joe, you know of his intense *love* for the Atlanta Braves. He will tell you there are only 2 seasons, Christmas season and Baseball season. We started off our Saturday by going on a tour of Turner Field.

 Joseph with the giant baseball
 In front of Turner Field. Waiting on the tour to start
 A great view of the field.
 Joseph looking cute in front of the field
 Me in front of the Chickfila Cow and the Coke Bottle
 Broadcast Booth
 Braves locker room
Look at that green grass. We were instructed *Not* to touch it.

After that we went to lunch at Taqueria Del Sol. It is a super yummy mexican restaurant around Atlanta (and one in Athens). We got tacos, salsa and cheese dip and really enjoyed all the delicious food. Sadly no pictures.

Then we went and checked in at the Hotel Indigo
 We had a room on the "VIP" floor. Which I think is really just code for "Make them feel special" But whatever! The bed was comfty and as you can see, we were in a blueberry room! It was a super cute room and super cute hotel.
 We exchanged gifts and Joe got me a cute owl apron that I have been bugging him about incessentantly.
I got Joe a sweatshirt with his face surrounded by his previous halloween costumes. He is sort of insane when it comes to halloween so it makes sense. As you can tell from our gifts, the 2nd year is Cotton!

We went to Ikea after that and walked around. That store makes me both happy and sad. Happy because I love that store and looking at all the different options for decorating and sad because I'm so ready to buy a new house. Soo ready.

After that we went back to the hotel and got ready for dinner.

I think we are pretty stinking cute.

Then we headed off to the Melting Pot for Big Night out France. Mmm, cheese






Then we went back to the hotel and watched a couple movies.

The next morning, I came out of the shower to this:

I love my husband.

I had a great time celebrating my anniversary with him and I hope everyone enjoyed getting to see a few of the pictures!