Bill and I celebrated our 14th Wedding Anniversary this past week. His sister, Annette, asked for a chance to spend a weekend with the girls, so we were able to spend some alone time together. It was so nice! We planned an outing to Frisco with some shopping, spa, dinner and hotel. Our first stop was IKEA. We needed a few things and actually spent a good hour and a half there!
Next we headed to the Stonebriar Spa for our "couple's" pedicure....which was actually a good thing after walking so much through IKEA! Anyway, this was Bill's first pedicure, and he already has said that we will do this every 3 months! LOL!! He really liked it a lot. It was a fun experience for us to share together.
After the spa, we headed just down the street and checked into the Westin Stonebriar Resort. It was a very nice hotel on a golf course. I was surprised at how many families were there since the resort isn't really in the middle of things. I guess that was the point....you really felt like you got away.
We had reservations at 6 for Buca di Beppo which actually turned out to be a good thing. We got there right around 6, and in the 5-10 minutes that we had to wait for our table, the wait time for walk-ins increased from 30 minutes to 1 hour! Crazy! Anyway, for those who don't know, Buca di Beppo stands for Joe's Basement. It is a family style italian restaurant that has no windows, so you feel as if you are in a real basement. The decor is very eclectic and the dishes/utensils didn't match. And the food.....AWESOME!!! I have recently started liking Portobello Mushrooms, and they have an awesome grilled musroom appetizer....yummy!! We ordered the Quattro al Forno which gave us a sampling of their baked pastas, including: cheese ravioli, spicy sausage stuffed shells, spicy chicken cannoli and manicotti. It was all delicious!! Can't wait to go back!
After dinner we headed to Super Target and picked up some pints of ice cream. We went back to the hotel, rented a movie and ate our ice cream. Sunday, we woke up and enjoyed the restaurant's breakfast buffet (yummy omelet) and then went on back home. Well, after we stopped at the car wash because apparently the front parking space at the hotel comes with the steep price of bird droppings....if only they had posted a sign before we joyously pulled into that spot the night before! ugh!
But, it was a great anniversary for us!! Thank you so much, Annette, for taking on our girls!! And thank you, Nana, for taking them all shopping!! I know it isn't easy having all 3 at once....you guys are great!!! Love you!!
