A Weekend Well Spent

This post is long overdue, I know. I meant to write about my little weekend rendezvous last week but didn't get around to doing that. However, seeing that I had such a lovely time (and how I haven't blogged for a while), I just couldn't NOT write about it.

Since we couldn't go away for our honeymoon just as yet due to unforeseen circumstances, Pen and I decided to take short holidays from now till then to tide us over. For our first weekend getaway, we had decided to live it up at the Gold Coast. None of that country-side living or quiet hinterland resort for me because this time around, I wanted a holiday in the heart of a bustling city centre. And a choice well made I must add!

Our first stop at Surfers Paradise was at King Tutt's Putt Putt, where we challenged each other to two rounds of mini golf. It was good fun and although the place looked a whole lot bigger in the photos, we had a ball laughing and calling each other names. I tried to impress Pen with my hole-in-one skills but he beat me anyway. What's new?

For lunch, we stopped by Tedder Ave at Main Beach and ate at Café Aruba. It was then that the feeling of being on a vacation finally hit us! The palm trees along the streets helped too. We had a cup of flat white each, sat down and watched the flashy cars and rich mamas go by.

By 2pm, we checked into Watermark Hotel and Spa and were delighted when they gave us a room on their top floor. We had decided to go all out and book ourselves a club room, their top of the range rooms apparently. It also gave us excluuuusive excess to the club lounge with evening drinks and canapés and a hot breakfast in the morning. Pretty cool I must say - there was champagne in our room and we even had a pillow menu! Hardly able to contain my excitement, I was tempted to request for all the pillows on the menu. In the end, I settled for a long bean buddy pillow (which was actually just a really, really long bolster) that I soon discovered, was almost twice the length of me. Too bad we forgot to take a photo...

After a few games of mastermind, we decided to hit the streets and explore Surfers Paradise Boulevard. They've developed the area quite a bit with a couple of street mall boutiques. We went into Tiffany & Co, WB store, MNG and scared ourselves silly (actually, just me) when we entered Dracula's Haunted House. And of course, Pen had an ice cream in his hand the whole time.

For dinner, we drove to George's Paragon along the Gold Coast Highway. It was highly recommended by Steph so we decided to give it a try. We went absolutely crazy with the seafood and ordered an array of oysters, garlic prawns, Morton Bay bugs, scallops and barramundi. It was all half price too since we ordered before 6:30pm. The food was divine and the restaurant was classy. We even had our own waiter standing near us as we ate. We ended our evening with some drinks at the club lounge back at our hotel.

On Sunday morning after eggs ben and strawberry pancakes, we went to the Q1. Tried to look for Steph among the 80 levels but couldn't spot her for some reason. After checking out at noon, Pen drove me to Pacific Fair for shopping! Oh bless his little heart! I ended up buying a top from Myer which also doubles as a work shirt. Oh that's what I call value for money.

We headed for home slightly after 3pm, feeling relaxed, contented and rejuvenated. We had such a lovely weekend and it was certainly refreshing to get away from our weekly routine for a while. Hopefully our next stop will be Fiji when Pen's travel benefits kick in!

Here are some photos if you're interested.