Weekend Away!

No, I did NOT already start to bloggy backslide.

This weekend I was away on a wonderful, spontaneous, frugally-extravagant 'getaway'. Just Hubs and I, in Nashville.

We stayed at the Gaylord Opryland Resort, which has EVERYTHING you need for a break from mundane....

We thoroughly enjoyed the "free" stuff - our beautiful surroundings. The weather in the 'real' outside was bitterly cold and overcast, but outside our balcony the environment was perfect.

There were fountains, and then there were fountains.

Flowers and Falls

Whimsy and sweetness.

The resort is exactly like a city indoors..... probably like what they do in Vegas, but I wouldn't know.

You could take a boat ride through the hotel and have a tour guide describe the plant life and colorful fish, you could swim, exercise, blow your money in the arcade, get a pedicure, shop, eat, or, just sit and enjoy your surroundings.

With more time and more money, I would've treated myself to one of the facials offered in the full-service spa and salon:

organic oxygen, warming sugar and spice, aromatherapy radiance,

anti-aging, vitamin C.

Or a massage:

stone, aromatherapy, deep tissue, shiatsu, Swedish, neuromuscular.

There were pricey restaurants and affordable restaurants and kiosks and ice cream parlors and coffee shops and pubs and sushi bars and cookie places and even a Godiva chocolate store. There were clothing stores and jewelry stores and children's stores and gift shops and a golf shop and more.

And if that wasn't enough: The resort is right next door to the Opry Mills Mall: outlet stores, regular retail stores, food court, Rainforest Cafe, Aquarium restaurant, indoor glow-in-the-dark mini golf, bungee bounce, arcade restaurant, carousel, hardware store, twenty-screen movie theater, Bass Pro shop, and even an oxygen bar. You could spend two days there and not see everything.

It was a great break,

and now for a different kind of treat, I get to catch up with all my favorite bloggers. . . . in-between loads of laundry..... :)