Weekend "Away"

We hit the Wachovia over the weekend. We had a great time! Tonya's parents flew in last Thursday to watch the boys. So, on Friday afternoon, we took off for our weekend away...a whole twenty miles away. Friday evening we had dinner reservations at The Palm. Neither of us had been there before, but we had heard great things about it. The rumors were true...the food was delicious! (although I still think their steak is better!) After dinner we attempted to walk off a bit of our dinner before grabbing some desert to go. We both joked about how weird it was to hold each other's hand while walking around. I had the Dutch Apple Caramel Streusel. Tonya had the Which Chocoloate Raspberry Truffle.

Saturday we slept until 9:00 AM! Neither of us could remember the last time we slept that late. We barely made it down to breakfast in time. We then caught our shuttle over to Quail Hollow. We decided to follow Vijay Singh and Geoff Ogilvy the first day. I had a great time further introducing Tonya to the world of golf and, of course, just getting to spend time with her. No Treo, no laptop, no kids, no insanely jealous dog...just us. And about 350,000 of our closest friends and golf professionals. Saturday night we were beat from walking the entire course. So we headed out for a casual evening at CPK. We sat outside on the patio - the weather was perfect! We enjoyed some good food and spent a lot of time talking...without being interrupted. It was glorious!

Sunday we met the Peeks and the boys at church. Furtick tore it up, again! After church we grabbed some souffles at Panera and then it was back to golf for us. Sunday we decided to park on a hole and watch a few groups come by and then migrate to another hole. We hung out at # 1 and watched all the big names go by. It was really neat to see Couples, Furyk, Mickelson and the like come strolling past. After the lead group finished, we made our way to a few other holes to watch for a while. We eventually found some bleacher seats at # 17 tee and watched a few groups come through. Finally, we found some seats at #18 green and watched everyone, including Kim, finish their rounds.

Special thanks to Dudley and Sherree for braving the skies to take care of the boys. I'll have to write later in the week about all the... "stuff" they bought for the boys and developing girl.

Extra special thanks to my smokin' hot wife for submitting to my self-indulgent definition of a romantic weekend away. I enjoyed every second and I am looking forward to the next time we'll get to do something like this...in 2011.