Showing posts with label spa day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spa day. Show all posts

Monday, 20 February 2012

pancakes and an AWESOME birthday gift


I know its pancake Tuesday tomorrow, but we were trying out recipes for my mother-in-law to make for work. So we made these babies yesterday. I have decided to participate in Lent activities this year by refraining from eating chocolate and drinking sugary tea (except on my birthday!). 

I also got my birthday present (from my hubby) early (yesterday) and will be spending the morning (from 9am – 1pm) at the Galgorm Spa, where I will be forced to suffer 2 hours of the thermal spa*; a 60 minute  Mineral Mud Serail and a 60 minute Hot Stone Back Massage, followed by a delicious 2 course lunch with Fionnuala.

I am convinced spending my birthday this way will somehow ease the pain of turning 31 this year :)

*The Thermal Spa offers you the chance to experience the ancient rituals of bathing in cold, cool, warm and hot environments to aid detoxification, purification and relaxation. The infinity hydrotherapy pool contains massage jets to ease away tensions while the heated cabins provide varying degrees of heat and humidity aimed at targeting different parts of your body including your respiratory and circulatory systems, your muscles and your skin. An invigorating rub with ice from our ice fountain will truly awaken the senses while a spell in our experience shower will prepare your skin for further treatments or maybe a relaxing soak in our outdoor hot-tub.

Friday, 5 August 2011

Blackberry Virgin

So yesterday we started the day with a visit to the Spa. We had the hydrotheray session. Outdoor jacuzzi, various hydro treatments and a 2 course lunch in our gowns to end the afternoon with.
The Graham gals

After that we celebrated the bride -to-be's birthday with a special kitchen tea at a friends place.
Fionnula (Bride's) birthday cake

We rushed home, via the bottle store, to the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner. Had a pretty late night/morning.Can't find sulphide-free wine in this place, so bought a bottle of vodka, lime and soda instead :) No more red wine hangovers for me. After a bit of a lie-in this morning, we headed off to the nearest town and I finally got a BLACKBERRY! No idea how the thing works, but I'll figure it out eventually.

Karl's parents house is packed! There are 10 of us in a 3 bedroom house and we're sharing a room with Karl's brother and his girlfriend for the weekend so you can imagine how much fun it is. Its like we're kids again, giggling til the early hours! We're gonna sit around and play cranium tonight and try get an early night to be fresh for the wedding in the morning-we'll see how that goes!

Gonna need a holiday to recover from the wedding weekend.

The little bird Karl & Barry rescued today. It now lives in my father-in-laws garage