Winter Vacation

From Maryland, we headed south for our Winter Vacation. Our first stop on the list was Charleston, SC. I had never been to Charleston and Alex kept raving about it! We stayed at a lovely hotel and my sweetie took me out for a great birthday dinner to celebrate those 36 years of life!...Here are some shots of us at dinner....

I'm also thinking this will be good for our Christmas card next year...Perfect isn't it?







From there, we headed to St. Augustine. Alex and I both agreed that this is the first and last time we will spend time there. Alex thought I wouldn't be ok for the entire drive down to Florida so he planned a pit stop for me....needless to say, I got all A's for the week when we were driving. Yay me!!
Our next stop was Ft. Lauderdale. The Atlantic Hotel to be exact! It was lovely and when you walked in there was the lovely scent of pink grapefruit that I'm dying to have...I want my house to smell like the Atlantic as well!
We had a beautiful suite and spent the next few days on the beach and in the pool enjoying our 75-80 degree weather! Relaxing and vacation life is the way to go....If I could spend my days vacationing, I think I'd be a very happy person...

Our New Years Eve plans didn't pan out the way that we wanted, so instead, we made the best of it and had lunch at a gorgeous restaurant with an outside deck called Pelican Landing. Ironically, our waitress worked for the W Hotels in NYC and had just moved to Florida with her boyfriend! It's such a small world. Once the sun went down, we headed home to our abode, got a bottle of champagne and toasted the night away on our balcony. Truth be told, we didn't make it until the new year....Alex woke up twice from a deep sleep wondering if we had made it yet. It was like a kid waiting for Christmas morning...my response was simply, "not yet, go back to sleep."
With only one more day in Florida we spent time enjoying the weather and each others company.
From there, we headed to Savannah, GA. What a great place to visit! Besides basking in the sun, this was my favorite spot. We stayed at a gorgeous hotel called The Mansion on Forsythe Park...you can check it out here: http://www.mansiononforsythpark.com/

Apparently, the restaurant portion was first a funeral home, then a mansion, then was eventually converted to a restaurant and bar. Crazy how history works out isn't it? Slightly creepy too if you think about it! We enjoyed a few drinks at the bar upstairs and then walked around the restaurant to look at all of the great interior and exterior design. If I had a mansion, I would want it to be decorated just like this. Any of you who know me, know that animal print is highly regarded on my list....meow!


Our trip ended the next day with a long drive back to NYC. We finally made it home and while we were happy to be there, we miss Florida, Georgia and South Carolina dearly!

Vacations make people better! I encourage you to take one right now!