The Sanders 5: Swankin' It Up

Last weekend we celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary (July 31st). We haven't gone away or done anything really spectacular the last few years and my awesome husband planned this fab getaway for our Lucky #7. It was all a surprise, and so worth the wait! We left on Friday afternoon for Gainey Ranch in Scottsdale where we were staying at the Hyatt. We started off with a quick tour of Spa Avania (complete with glass of wine) where I excitedly found out we were booked for a couples massage the next day! Then we headed to the hotel bar for the Arizona Wine Challenge wine tasting. They line up 6 wines in front of you, 3 from Arizona and 3 from Italy and you decide what you like best and at the end they tell you which wine is from where. And YUM they had this delicious cheese fondue that we practically inhaled. From there we headed to iPic in the Scottsdale Quarter which was perfect because we love to go to the movies and this was a great way to do that, only with big recliners, food, and sangria. We saw Crazy, Stupid, Love - romantic and funny.

We got to have a nice lazy Saturday morning, and hung out by the pool (and of course went down the waterslide). There were a lot of families and we really starting missing the kids, so we finally just stayed in the adults only pool so as to not get too depressed. :) We headed to the spa for our couples massage which was heavenly. Cam had never had a massage before and his response was, "Woah, shouldn't I have bought her a drink first?" He had also booked a manicure for me, hooray! That night we ate at Alto ristorante in the hotel and they have gondola rides in the evenings on the lake behind the hotel, complete with singing. Everything was so nice that all weekend we kept saying how we were "swankin' it up". Thank goodness for summer deals, restaurants. com, and facebook coupons to make it a fabulous and affordable weekend! :-) We were terrible about taking pictures so we snapped this one right before we checked out.