The BEST {Extended} Weekend EVERRRR: Part 1

Last Friday Pete and I had an ENTIRE day to ourselves.  For reals.  No kids, no obligations, no meetings, nada.  Just he and I, mano e mano.  Awesome.  What did we do with all that time you ask???  Well, I thought you'd never ask...

9am - Big sister Chelsea came to our house and took over parental responsibilities for the day (heaven bless you madam)

9:30am - Off to use our gift certificates for Hot Stone Massages... amazing!  The whole time we were checking in we were just giggling like kids, well, mainly me.  I guess I'm not very good at being serious.  But the 55 minute massage = delightful!

10:50am - Rushed to Joe's Farm Grill before it closed it's breakfast menu!  Phew, we made it.  I ordered the Summer Vegetable Omelet (delicious!) and Pete got the Breakfast Tacos (equally delicious!).  Totally rockin'.  Oh, and to polish it off we thought we should get a Banana Cream Pie Milkshake (Pete) and a Lemon Cupcake (Me) from The Coffee Shop next store.  Let me just say that I will forever be ending all brunches with a lemon cupcake.  Oh yeah.

11:20am - Had some time to kill, so decided to head to the theatre to see if anything was playing (because when you have no kids, you can totally go see a movie in the middle of the day without any plans whatsoever!  Did you know that people actually do this?!?!?)  We got there at 11:30, the new Captain America is playing at... 11:30.  Like they had it planned out just for us.  Perfecto!  Buy tickets, get good seats.  Deal.  Oh and the movie???  Not to shabby.

1:45pm - Walked out into the BLINDING AZ sun and think, hmmmm... What should we do now?  Well I just happened to get a smokin' deal at a hotel for the day.  So we headed on over, checked in, walked quickly to the room in sweet anticipation of what lied ahead, shut the windows, dimmed the lights, and yes, did exactly what you think we would do... napped.  During the day, without interruptions of "I need a snack!" or "Calvin wiped his booger on me!" or "Waaaaaa! Waaaaaa!"  Nope, just sweet silence, soft blankets, and happy napping.  So wrong, yet soooooo right.

4:30pm - Headed out to a little place we had heard about: The Queen Creek Olive Mill.  We have some of their Roasted Garlic Olive Oil and it is pure magic.  We heard that they have a little deli there opened during the day so we thought we should give it a go.  We got to this big shed out in the middle of no where, thought it a little strange and underwhelming, and then... we walked into an olive oil wonderland.  So cool!  We checked out the menu and ordered some bruchetta's, sandwiches, prickly pear lemonade, and a couple of cannoli's for good measure.  It was YUMMY!  Going to an olive mill to eat... check!

6pm - Made a pit stop at home to check in on the kiddos and put Jack to bed (he still nurses to bed. I know, I know, wean the kid already.  I'm working on it.)  Come to discover that Paige's little bottom tooth was super loose!  First loose tooth for the Forbis Family = super big deal!!!  Pete gave it a little tug and out it came!  Weee!  So neat little Paigey- Pie!  Got Jack to bed and turned the kids back over to Chel for the remainder of the night so we could be on our next venture...

7:30pm - SUNSPLASH!!!  That's right, you read correctly, we went to Sunsplash for the night swim from 7 - 11pm, along with every other tween in the valley, and it was incredible.  Packed beyond belief, but worth every second of waiting for the water rides of a lifetime!  Slides with single tubes, double tubes, quadruple tubes, no tubes, lazy river, wave pool! You name it, Sunsplash had it, and we did it my friends.  Seriously, probably the most fun we have had as a couple maybe since we've had kids.  Maybe?  No, definitely.  Needless to furtherly explain, it was raaaaaaad.

11:25pm - Stopped at Nielsen's Frozen Custard on the way back to our hotel for a little concrete treat.  And when I say little I mean a colossal cup of creamy frozen custard blended with oreo's and raspberries (if you're Pete) or hot fudge and reece's cups (if you're me. yah, I'm a light dessert eater).  Heaven!  I just loved strolling into the joint soaked with wet swim suits and the smell of chlorine, only to be surrounded by every other couple dressed to their finest on a night out.  Classy. 

11:50pm - Even though we just had our dessert, all the running around at Sunsplash had worked us up quite the appetite.  So we did the only thing you're supposed to do when you're hungry late at night in AZ, we hit up Filiberto's for some carne asada burritos to take back to the hotel and chow on as we watched some late night TV in our swimsuits.  It was completely irresponsible to our stomach's and our much needed rest, but it was so worth it. 

Later and into the next day... Had a magnificent rest without kids in and out of our bed all night and it was just fan-freakin-tastic.  However, still woke up at the crack of dawn looking for a child to soothe.  So we headed home at about 8am to happily resume our parental duties. You can take the mama out of  motherhood, but you can't take the motherhood out of the mama.  Yah, you can quote me on that.