This past weekend, my husband and I took a nice weekend trip to Phoenix. Because sometimes, you just gotta get the heck out of town!
It was much needed. We've both been extremely busy and stressed out with life in general, so it was WONDERFUL to take a step back and get away for a couple of days.
We took our new car...mine was about to die, so it was time to trade it in:
We left on Friday after work, and got to Phoenix around midnight. The sky was really beautiful on the way there. We even got rained on a little bit! Which is a miracle in the southwest.
We stayed at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown. It was within walking distance to many restaurants and the ballpark. It was a nice hotel. Nice rooms, nice lobby, nice everything. And fairly inexpensive too! We booked last minute, maybe that’s why? They only had a couple of rooms left, so maybe they were trying to fill them up? Who knows.
I loved this cool lighting feature in the lobby:
Saturday morning, we slept in a little bit and then went to Scratch French Café for a late breakfast. The service was poor, but the food was good. I liked the atmosphere too…slightly quirky and eclectic. Right downtown, just a couple of blocks from our hotel.
After our breakfast, we picked up our car from the hotel parking garage and drove to Tempe to Ikea. Ikea is a ‘must stop’ when visiting any city that has one.
We (I) didn’t go too nuts. We purchased some new silverware, which we really needed, along with some new silverware holders. Some bookends, both for home and for my husband’s office at work. A fake plant (don’t judge…we have cats that eat plants). Some travel bags that I fell in love with and little travel bottles. Two large clay pots for outside. A vertical TV stand for our bedroom (a steal at only $14.99). Some cute little Hannah-sized dishes for her food. Etc, etc.
We managed to get through the whole store and have a snack at the cafeteria in about 2 hours.
Then we headed back downtown, parked our car at the hotel, and walked to Chase Field to catch a Diamondbacks vs. Phillies baseball game.
My husband found a good deal online for club seats that were four rows behind home plate.
I am not a huge baseball fan, but going to real games is SO MUCH FUN. Especially in club seats. J Good drinks, good food, good baseball.
See this guy?
It's Ryan Howard. He was on an episode of The Office a couple of weeks ago. Hilarious.
After 6:00 when it had cooled off a bit, they opened the roof:
The Diamondbacks lost unfortunately (bummer), but it was a good game. Here we are. Trying to get my husband to act normal in a picture is not an easy task. The last one was the best I could do.
Sunday morning we packed up our car and left it in the parking lot while we walked to another little café for breakfast. We had a leisurely breakfast, and then walked across the street for the 10:00 a.m. showing of Iron Man 3. Good movie!
After that we picked up our car for the final time and started the drive back home, stopping a few times along the way. We drove a different way home, the more scenic route. It did not disappoint! It took a bit longer, but it was very pretty.
It was SUCH a nice weekend. So nice to get away, even for just a couple of days.
And, we got to add some more pins to our 'places traveled together' map:
P.S. - our car did really well....it's a good road trip car!
Another P.S. – our animals were in good hands while we were gone. Our cats were being watched by our house sitter and the dogs spent the weekend at Grandma’s house, where they got hamburgers for dinner, got walked 3 times per day and had free reign of the couch. I’m pretty sure they didn’t want to come home!
