Gina's Version Of Our Trip

“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” – Robert Orben

Hello Everyone!

I know all of you are dying to know how my “spa weekend” went. Well, let me tell you…it was fantastic!!!!!!!! The hotel was beautiful, the people were so accommodating and the french fries were in my top 5 . I can’t thank Joanie Winberg of National Association of Divorced Women and my friend Cyndi Lopez enough. This weekend was exactly what I needed. I came home feeling like a big bowl of jello. Here is a link to some pictures: http://www.freshstartafterdivorce.com/public/department123.cfm.

Let me start at the beginning. About 3 weeks ago, my girlfriend Cyndi and I were talking on the phone and she said “Oh, by the way, I entered us in a contest” and I thought to myself ” Great! I better not have to sing or do anything ridiculous.” That was it, we didn’t talk much more about it and honestly, I never thought in a million years we would win. So I forgot all about it. A week later Cyndi calls and sounding shocked she tells me that she heard from Joanie Winberg and that we were in the final 3 applicants to win the spa weekend. We were so excited and couldn’t wait to hear back from Joanie. A couple of days later we heard the news…WE WON!

Before we left, we received a cheese basket from Cabot Creamery, one of the contest sponsors. Their cheese is incredible! www.cabotcheese.com

We would be traveling to Hershey, PA to stay at The Hotel Hershey.. Their website has beautiful pictures. www.thehotelhershey.com We were met at the airport by Alan, our limo driver. He was great. So nice and friendly. When we arrived at the hotel it was even more beautiful than the website pictures. Joanie and her PR person Ellen were there to meet us. We each received bouquets of flowers from Joanie and a robe and pajama’s from one of the contest sponsors Nite Sweatz. The PJ’s are amazingly comfortable and very stylish. You can check out their website at www.nitesweatz.com. When guests check into the hotel you are given Hershey chocolate bars. We would soon find out that Hotel Hershey handed out chocolate like other hotels give out extra towels or the morning paper. I don’t know about you, but I definitely prefer chocolate to the morning paper. Not that we had to choose, we also got the morning paper! We then were scheduled to have lunch in the Spa’s restaurant and then on to the first spa treatment … our facials. I really wasn’t expecting the facial to be relaxing. I was wrong. The facial was so enjoyable that both Cyndi and I agreed that we were going to order room service instead of going out to dinner that night. That is how we discovered their amazing french fries. If you get the chance to go there, I highly recommend them. While we were in the room there was a knock on the door and a wonderful hotel employee handed us a basket full of chocolate. There were Hershey Kisses, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and other assorted chocolates. Yummy!!

On Saturday, we slept in. Today was the day…our chocolate fondue wraps and then a massage. We headed to the Spa for lunch then onto our chocolate wraps. I LOVED IT. They “painted” the mud wrap that smelled just like chocolate on you. Then you were wrapped in plastic – I kind of felt like a candy bar myself!! This was done in a room where the lights were dimmed and relaxing music was piped in. After laying there for about 20 minutes letting the “chocolate” do it’s magic the therapist came back in and rinsed off the chocolate. They have this wonderful “rain bar” that has multiple shower heads on it that they could just pass over you. You never had to move, you didn’t have to get up! Next was the massage, again it was a most relaxing experience. Everyone I came in contact with was just so accommodating. It was very nice. I felt like a queen for the weekend. Once again Cyndi and I couldn’t drag ourselves from the room – it was a room service night again! And again there was a knock on the door…we received recipe cards with different chocolate recipes on them and a homeopathic spray that is used to help you sleep better. After the day of spa treatments we definitely didn’t need that!

On Sunday we checked out, and had lunch at the hotel restaurant, the Fountain Cafe. We had chocolate martini’s (delicious!!) and then we headed to the outlet mall that is across the street from the hotel. We shopped until it was time to head to the airport.

I missed my husband and kids, but I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect weekend. – Gina

She described it perfectly! I couldn’t agree more. The only thing I would add is that there is no logical explanation for how freakin’ tired we were on Sunday afternoon after having done virtually NOTHING for three days! Sloth and Gluttony make you tired I guess.

Thanks for stopping by!

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