Aren't we sweet????
Oh, don't worry....the cold shoulder isn't all we gave Tony. We gave him cold feet...cold cheeks...cold fingers...well, despite the lovely blue parkas, just about cold EVERYTHING really!
For Tony's birthday we went to ICE! at Gaylord National Harbor.
We had never seen the movie that most of the ice sculptures were based on. It didn't matter. It was still incredible...and in case I haven't mentioned...incredibly COLD!!!
Once we left the beautiful ice displays and the super slippery ice slides we went to the beautiful Gaylord National Harbor hotel.
Oh! My! Word! Stunning. Truly. If you've never been to the Gaylord National Harbor...you've gotta GO!!!! That place is positively AH. MAY. ZING. Describing it won't do it justice. It's close to home (it only took us 35 minutes to get there) and so worth the trip. Just take my word for it...save up your pennies...and GO!!
We had so much fun just exploring the enormous hotel, playing in the gazebo, and riding in the glass elevators!
While we were there Lily made a gingerbread family, had her picture taken with a life-sized Gingerbread man, and positively fell in love with her gingerbread hand puppet! Lily never, ever wanted to leave!
For Tony's birthday dinner he decided he would like to have steak. I thought we would end up at one of the numerous restaurants surrounding the hotel, but then I did a little research and found that the steak house in the hotel received really great reviews.
We were able to get reservations at the restaurant immediately following the nightly tree lighting, fountain display, and indoor snowfall that takes place in the hotel atrium.
As we were walking through the restaurant to get to our table - that overlooked the Potomac River - Lily said in a voice filled with awe, "This is the nicest restaurant I've ever been in...in my WHOLE entire life!" So sweet. Oh, and it was one of the nicer restaurants I've been in in my whole life, too!
It was apparent that this is *NOT* a restaurant that children frequent. Not to worry. Despite the raised eyebrows of a few of the restaurant patrons and staff, Lily was her normal, polite, sweet self and had completely charmed our rather serious Eastern European waiter before we had even ordered our drinks!!
In fact, the waiter told Lily that the restaurant didn't have a Kid's Menu, but to just tell him what she wanted and he would have it brought up from one of the other restaurants in the hotel...and that is exactly what he did!!!
Tony enjoyed his birthday weekend so much he has requested that we make a trip to the Gaylord an annual birthday tradition. Well, if the birthday boy insists what am I going to do??? Honestly, the things I do for that man!
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