Meghan's Massachusetts Adventure: New Years Vacation!!!

Hello Hello!!! So you may have seen my Facebook post that gave some vague details of the BEST weekend ever!!! But I thought I would give some more detail on all the fun Chris and I had!!! So, first...I was going to go to work on Friday, scratch that! Worked from home and took all the time in the world to relax, pack, and get ready to head to Connecticut! (ps - finished the edits of my CRP/dissertation before we left so didn't have that on my mind)....much to my surprise it is a fairly short drive to Connecticut, although I should note that I am the worst at geography so it's not saying much that I was surprised! So we checked into the hotel and then this was the weekend itinerary:

1) Head to the hotel bar for a drink while watching the Notre Dame game until it was time to...
2) Walk to dinner because, yes, it was like 55 degrees out....IN DECEMBER!!!
3) Enjoy a fantastic dinner!!! Best part of the meal was the spinach artichoke and goat cheese dip!!!! Or was it the NY Cheesecake....can't decide...
4) Came back and enjoyed some time in the hot tub, met some nice people, and then watched some more football
5) Watched the ball drop while sipping on some champagne
6) NEW YEARS!!!!
7) Slept in
8) Watched football
9) Ordered Chinese food
10) Massages
11) Hot tub (again)....not very nice people this time...more annoying...
12) Attempted to get some dinner at the hotel restaurant, however, no one cared to inform those who made reservations that they were closed, so instead of sitting next to the annoying people from the hot tub and have dinner we looked for another option :)
13) Joe from Hotel Services found us a spectacular restaurant where we had another great dinner
14) Headed back to the hotel for the Rose Bowl!

Now, would have been great if the weekend would have ended on that note, but let's be honest...Chris and I don't have that great of luck. So get up early to check out and head back to Massachusetts, headed out to the parking garage at which point I notice a dent in Chris' car (first dent in his car by the way)! Can't really do anything because there are no cars parked on either side of us...so just pack up our stuff and are going to head out. Well we notice a note on the windshield that said "contact front desk for contact information"...at this point I was encouraged by the honesty of people and thought that was really cool that they left a note...yeah, well shouldn't have jumped to any conclusions because no one left information so the note was just a waste of time!!!! Then, we get back to my apartment and Chris starts looking for his brand new sunglasses he got for Christmas only to find that they are missing and the only place they could have gone is in someone's pocket when our bags were inspected on our way home from Chicago! Boo to people who are not honest!!!! Gotta hate those days when you realize that not everyone in the world has enough of a conscious to help them do the right thing!!!! Here's hoping we got the worst part of 2011 over early in the year!!!!

Hope you all had a wonderful New Year!!!!

Wanted to end the post on a positive note with some pictures from the weekend :)