I was driven, like never before to have a perfect Christmas date with Chad this week. We decorated our tree last night and ran into some fun obstacles and spent a lot less time together than we both had hoped, for so today was redemption!
I planned this awesome day in Idaho Falls for Chad and I and it was NOT going to be spoiled! Not by work, by weather, by school..nothing! To insure it's success, I over-planned our day by about 5 activities so that as something happened (as it always does) we could move on to the next activity and continue to enjoy our time together. It was bulletproof.
The ORIGINAL Plan:
9:00am-Wake up to a waffle breakfast (that I cooked the night before) eat and get ready for the day of surprises.
9:30am-Drive to IF
10:00am- Start the city scavenger hunt for "Tracker" Santas dog. We would go from shop to shop getting our card punched until we finished and hour later and claimed our prize at the city center.
11:00am- Art Museum, they had a free admisisons day and a christmas craft for everyone to do!
12:00pm- Lunch at "Snakebite" A local restaurant and home of Chads favorite cake.
1:00pm-get picked up outside of snakebite by a horse drawn trolley for a ride around the river.
2:00pm-go to the river for some pictures and nature walk (we LOVE the icey river!)
3:00pm-The City Library for a craft fair and book sale
4:00pm- Slice of fresh bread and hot cocoa from GreatHarvest
4:30pm- we take our hot cocoa down to the civilian center for the string quartet concert
5:00pm- Santa meets us at the civilian center for the lighting of the city trees.
5:30pm- GO HOME
See...jampacked day of Christmas fun!
Disclaimer: I'm not a psycho, I KNEW we wouldn't be doing all of this...i planned for inevitable failure of a few activities.
Naturally, after last nights work issues we got to bed late and ended up sleeping through our alarm and getting up at 9:55am....breakfast and city scavenger hunt...gone. No big deal, we got ready, got out the door at 10:30 and to IF at 11:15am. We drove nice and slow because it was snowing all day long! Which we LOVE! We went straight to the snake bite for Chads favorite lunch and a cake slice to go. We had the whole place to ourselves and enjoyed every minute.
After that we went to the art museum. We had never been to this museum so I was excited, I just love museums and Chad does too...unless there is art in them. He "doesn't get" most art so this exhibit was especially frustrating for him but he enjoyed walking around and making fun of everything.
"Thats not art...that's a yellow peice of paper!", "How is a picture of a drawer of junk called art?!"
Here he is, pretending to have depth ... cute huh.
This one is called "straws"...enlightening.
After that we went to the river for some outdoors time! It was literally a winter wonderland. The trees were dressed in white and the river was the only noise that the falling snow would let through. We walked around the scenic riverside park and took pictures of everything.
I lie every time I agree with a friend or neighbor who complains about the snow. Chad and I love it. We love driving in it, we love watching inches of it fall, we love walking through it and I even enjoy shoveling it! I've tried to be honest when people ask me if I hate the snow like they do but i think I've lost a few peoples respect as I giddily gush about my love for the fluffy white stuff. Sorry! I LOVE IT!
So we really enjoyed our time walking around the river in the snow.
After our walk, we went to the City Library for the annual craft fair and book sale. The craft fair was humorously creepy, Lots of old people with really interesting knitted projects and a guy who was extremely proud of his, "Supernatural Christian Fiction Art". We were lucky to get outta there considering this sweet old lady was driven to tell us everything there is to know about doTerra (essential oils) and the $550.00 package that would "change our lives." So sweet but yeah, wrong audience (she should sell to people with money next time).
We went over to the book sale and had a blast exploring old books, maps and magazines. My personal favorite...
Then we went to one of my Idaho Falls favorite, Great Harvest, for some free bread and hot chocolate! SO delicious! Once we got out hot chocolate we headed outside just in time to catch the horse drawn trolley. Now remember, this entire date was a surprise to Chad so whenI told him we should step outside to catch a horse drawn trolley, his jaw dropped. "Kayla, you're kidding right? No way!" "Kayla, how are you paying for this!" Haha, he was thrilled and a part of me really wanted to tell him I had hired the trolley just for us (since no one else was on it at the time) but I came clean, its city sponsered. We had it all to ourselves for a while and were joined by the sweetest daddy daughter date ever. They were the cutest and I even talked them into taking a picture for us!
After our romantic snowy ride, we were tired! As we walked back to the car to go to the next place, I saw where the quartet and Santa were supposed to be in the next hour and it was... less awesome than I had hoped. In case you were wondering, Idaho Falls does NOT had a massive tree in the center of the city that tons of people gather to watch Santa light... I guess I created the whole event in my mind and I kinda over-thought it. SO we checked out early.
We came home, shared chads slice of cake and then we got to watch Aaron! He made us laugh so hard. We ate dinner together, looked at the Christmas tree and then we set up our Christmas village. We always have a blast with that little guy.
It was a beautiful day! We had so much fun together and it was seriously overdue "Chad and Kayla" time. We're so excited for Liam to be here and honestly, we spent the majority of the day talking about him but I'm so glad we got in a full day of just us.
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