Okay, okay, some people have been asking, "what's the surprise" so here is the whole story. First, some background to the story, that all happened on Tuesday, Oct 14th: I had a mental health clinical that morning, and I learned a lot about myself, including that mental health nursing is definitely not for me. After feeding one of my patients who had horrible halitosis, his head flopped into my face, and he belched with little pieces hitting me in the face. I almost threw up on him I was so disgusted. Needless to say, I did not have a good time that day. Well, earlier that week our cousin Tom had asked me to do a favor for him later on Tuesday. He had asked me to take his wife, and one of my best friend's and cousin Kristie, to the mall or Costco at 4pm, and to give her a letter, he was planning a surprise, and it would really help him out. That made sense to me because Kristie's birthday is in October, and I knew that last October was when he proposed. I just assumed he was doing something special for those occasions. I had ended up forgetting to get the letter from Tom the night before, but Nathan said he'd go get it because I needed to be in bed since I had to get up so early on Tuesday for clinicals. So that made sense, no holes or flags there. Tom had told Kristie that he needed to drop off a proposal for Nathan's work regarding the software that Tom's company is launching, so that made perfect sense to her. So the boys had it just right to plan and planted the needed things in my car without any suspisions. I picked up Kristie from school at about 4pm and took her to Costco first, where I'd give her the letter, and then I would be "off the hook" as Tom put it, so I assumed that the letter would tell her to call or he'd be there to surprise her, or something of that sort. As we were walking in, she opened it, said "did you know about this", I said, "no, I'm just supposed to give this to you". She opened it, and inside was a letter for her AND for me. I was completely shocked, especially since it was in Nathan's handwriting. Was not expecting that, and it threw me for a loop since it was in the envelope from Tom. Well, our two rad husbands had gotten together to plan the first annunal "Girls Night Out To The Spa Just For Fun Night" or "GNOTTSJFFN" for short:) We had no idea they were planning this, but they had a 5pm appointment for us at the Mainspring Day Spa for a one hour full body massage. There was a hot tub that we relaxed in beforehand, and our bathing suits were already in my car, planted in the middle counsel the night before ;) They also gave us money for eating out before hand (we ate at a great healthy cafe right next door to the spa) and for shopping. It was awesome. I've been stressed out with nursing, and wondering if I even like nursing since I LOVED exercise science, and Kristie is stressed with exercise science too (it is awesome having a cousin who is doing the same major I did from the same school). This was a much needed break, and so Kristie and I really do have the best husbands in the world. I was totally surprised, and Nathan gets a 10 on the casanova rating scale. So that is the story, neat surprise, eh? THANK YOU GUYS!!!
Inside the entry to the spa
Kristie and I in our robes going to the hottub before our massage, which was so relaxing!!!
The sign to the spa, I highly recommend this place to anyone.
