10 Year Anniversary

Hello, as most of you may already know last Friday, August 14/09 was our 10 year wedding anniversary. Jennifer and I decided to celebrate by spending a weekend in Winnipeg (without the kids, thanks grampa and auntie's Natalie and Michelle.)

Thursday, August 13/09

The weekend got off to a rockin' start when Jennifer slammed the car door onto my left hand whilst I was loading up our car topper, I'm pretty sure it was an accident!

We met Grampa Dick in Kenora Friday afternoon where he picked up Cameron to spend the week with him in Selkirk. Needless to say Cameron was pretty pumped.......
"Whatcha gonna do at Grampa's house Cameron?" "I'm gonna go to McDonald's, eat jellybeans......"

We checked into the Inn at the Forks Thursday night and I gotta say, what a nice hotel! The lobby and dining room was decorated with a definite "water" type theme, complete with a stream running through the lobby. We had an awesome room with a view of the Forks and the city skyline. The room itself was very nice with a king size bed and a glass sink and counter top in the bathroom.

After dinner at Earl's we checked out "Funny People" with Adam Sandler, very funny movie, both of us laughed out loud a couple of times, I think I embarrassed Jenn a little. After the movie it was back to the hotel, I'm not telling you what happened next.

Friday, August 14/09

After an awesome breakfast at the Current, the hotel's restaurant, we shopped a little until we had to go and see Dr. Ahmed, Jennifer's radiologist at Cancer Care.
At the appointment, Dr. Ahmed told us exactly what we wanted to hear, in his thick East Indian accent he said, "I saw your latest CT scan and there is no more cancer activity, we don't have to do anything else." Definitely a nice anniversary present!

After the visit to the hospital we power shopped! Or power "looked around" is more like it, we hunted the city looking for some specific items we wanted but couldn't find anything. Jenn did buy some clothes and I bought an organizer for my desk at work, rock on!

At 5pm following a stressful car ride through rush hour traffic, we arrived at the Rinestone spa at our hotel for a couple's massage. Rinestone is a very cool place, like any other massage business, you fill out a card with your medical history on it, then you put your slippers and robe on and make your way to the waiting room. The waiting room at Rinestone is, as you would expect, very relaxing. It was dimly lit and had a waterfall trickling down one of the walls. They had snacks, tea, and water there if you wanted anything. We had a "relaxing couple's massage" where both of us got massages in the same room at the same time. (Get your heads out of the gutter some of you, that's exactly what happened!) And it was very relaxing!

After that we "cleaned up nice" and headed out for our anniversary supper, which we wanted to have at the Ichi Ban Japanese Restaurant, easily our favorite place to go in Winnipeg. We drove downtown and had a hard time finding parking space due to construction, but we got there.

The the suckiest part of our trip happened! The Ichi Ban was closed! We were in shock. The lady said they were closed due to not enough business, what a disappointment. We hummed and haahd about other places before deciding on the restaurant at our hotel. We get back there and guess what? Yep, CLOSED!

So yeah, our anniversary supper was at the Old Spaghetti Factory, not by choice, but by convenience. It was actually pretty good.

After supper it was back up to the hotel for some more of I'm not telling you. Saturday morning we packed up and went to visit Jennifer's dad and step mom before heading home. All in all a great trip.