Fargo Getaway!

2 weeks ago Kristy and I were wallowing in our lack of ability to go anywhere warm this winter. We were feeling pretty sorry for ourselves and felt a VERY strong urge to pack up and go somewhere...anywhere. We were thinking maybe we should head down to Fargo for the weekend since Graham was working nights over the weekend, but hotels prices weren't that great. In the end we decided to use some of my Air Miles that had been accumulating and we were able to stay for free. We like free, so it was the perfect deal. After talking with Aimee, we learned that Andrew was also working evenings that weekend, so along Aimee came too.

Friday at 5pm sharp, Kristy, Norah, and I picked Aimee up from work and we headed down to Fargo for some deals.
It would seem that we have some interesting luck with hotel rooms. The initial room that they put us in was awful. It stunk soooo bad of something resembling a rotting, shit-filled diaper (and it wasn't Norah's). It was disgusting to say the least.


I very quickly called the front desk to see if we could possibly move to a nicer smelling room and they were up within 5 min with our new keys to our new room. Our new room smelled strongly of mint deodorizer, but a couple minutes with the window open, cleared out that smell.

The shopping experience in general wasn't fabulous. We all found a couple good finds, but nothing extravagant. I believe Norah came home with the largest haul - imagine that!
We shopped until we dropped (I think Aimee could have actually dropped), but on our "down time" it was wonderful to hang out in our hotel room chatting, watching movies we couldn't hear, eating lots and lots of junk food and just "be".

Being silly with Auntie Kara

Saturday night after a yummy supper at Johnny Carinos, the 3 of us took Norah down to the pool to do some swimming. She loved the water!


Sunday morning we took the morning easy before we packed up the car and hit a couple more stores in Fargo and then ventured to Grand Forks to scope out some of the deals there. Not much was found. The ride home was slow going at times due to AWFUL weather. There were moments when I was driving between 40 - 60 km/hr due to the poor visibility, fog and wind.

This little weekend getaway was no 5 star resort in the warmth of Mexico, but it was a ton of fun spent with some beautiful ladies. It was great to be able to get away for a weekend but it was also nice to come home and fall asleep in my own bed. Next time ladies...Minneapolis!