15 years, 23 days...

Maybe it wasn't the Caribbean vacation we were dreaming of, but our weekend away downtown couldn't have been a more perfect get-away.

 A super nice 20th floor hotel room (thank you last minute cheap rate from Hotwire!)...

A phenomenoal meal Friday evening (at 8:45!  you mean people go out at that time and aren't all home putting tinies to bed?!), and a warm nightime downtown stroll...

(that's his cute "why do you have to take so many pictures" look that I ignore and start taking pictures of him then)

A 2 1/2 hour segway tour of downtown Saturday morning...  

This was so much fun.  The segways are awesome, the tour guides were great, and we saw a lot of great stuff in the 5+ miles of bike paths and streets that we covered.  Neat way to experience downtown! 
 (Steve has always threatened to get a segway since it is only a mile to work for him, so I thought this was the perfect gift!  And after the tour I totally would get one too. ;)

We took a video to show the kids how it worked!

A kid-less visit with my brother Lucas and his beautiful pregnant wife Jessica...

Huh?  How does this happen you ask?  They were up to see a Twins game with Lucas's work, and their hotel happened to be 3 blocks from ours!  So after our segway tour we spent an hour or so hanging out with them before we headed out for our evening.  It was great because the four of us haven't sat and visited without any kids around for who knows how long!  Definitely a fun bonus for our weekend!

And last but not least, an early supper, some great views, and a performance of Music Man at the Guthrie...
 It was a great show that both Steve and I were in in high school, but watching the real professionals do it there were so many times that we were both "Oh that's how that is supposed to go!"

I couldn't be more blessed by being married to this man.  As I told him over the weekend, my heart is full of all the mushy gushy things to say, but I won't try because the words won't do you justice.  So just a big I love you and I do, always.