weekend getaway.

I took a day off.

I always do in March around our anniversary.  It's the only time of the school year that I take off for a personal day so that T and I can go relax and not think about work or the rest of life going on around us.

It's a time where we take time for each other and our marriage.

We like it.

This year we took off to Daniel's Summit Lodge.  We go there a lot for hot cocoa in the winter, but we've never actually stayed at the lodge.  We rented one of their queen cabins and stayed overnight.

What we didn't expect was how much snow we'd get on our overnighter!  We said hello to 5 inches of fresh new powder the day we arrived.  

It was beautiful and breathtaking sight.  Literally, though.  The wind was blowing so hard that it took our breath away.

{Checking into our little cabin abode for the evening}

{Cabin Numero Uno}

The next morning we woke up and ate a large breakfast of biscuits 'n' gravy for T and french toast and eggs for yours truly.  

Check out wasn't until 11:00, but we packed up around 10:00, snapped a quick picture inside the cabin, and went out into the frigid wind to start our snowshoeing adventure.

{Quaint and cozy little cabin}

We piled on the layers and set off for snowshoeing around the surrounding area and into Lodgepole Campground just North of Daniel's Summit.  Lodgepole also happens to be where where most of my summers as a child were spent camping, hiking, and roasting mallows).  Props to my sisters who let us mooch off of them and borrow their snowshoes so we wouldn't have to rent.

The snow was as high as most of the fence posts that we saw.  The upcoming pictures don't do the snow as much justice as it truly deserves.  If we didn't have snowshoes on, I'm sure I would've sunk right to the bottom and had the snow covering my head.

 {Super cold.  Super white.  Super windy.  Super fun.}

   

{Snowshoeing King}

{Snowshoeing Love}

And, of course, we had to grab some hot cocoa after our bitter-cold adventure.  See this post for my Daniel's Summit hot cocoa addiction/obsession.  I had cocoa for every meal we ate at Daniel's Summit this time around.  It is seriously heavenly goodness in a mug.

Even T agrees with me.  It is delish.

  An attractive husband, good food, adventures, and lots of warm blankets always make for a great anniversary.