TRIP TO SPOKANE/COUER D ALENE

Yesterday Alise Wrigley and I took a trip up to Couer D Alene to enjoy a day of fun and relaxation.  We started off bright and early going to the Zi Spa, while enjoying 5 hours of pampered relaxation and beauty.  We first got a Facial that was so nice and relaxing and when we walked back into the zen lounge our faces were bright and fresh as well as our hair up to the ceiling due to the head massage.  Then we enjoyed a wonderful wrap followed by a deep tissue massage that was heaven sent.  Then we enjoyed a wonderful lunch together followed by manicures and pedicures.  The two gals that did our manicures and pedicures were hilarious and we laughed to tears.  I am pretty sure I messed up a tear ducked because it wouldn't stop tearing up all night.   

They even had really nice showers with the water falling from the ceiling.  We got all dolled up and headed over to Spokane to the Shogun restaurant.  This place was really amazing.  You walk into the building and immediately step over this bridge with waterfalls and fountains.  The lighting is Dim and its as if you have stepped out of Spokane and into a Japanese village.  They seat us around this grill and the chef cooks the food right in front off doing tricks and putting on a show.  He lit the grill with fire and a flashing light really added the extra bit of flare to make the evening spectacular.  One trick that was really cool was he took an egg and spun in on the grill, picked it up on his spatula, still spinning, and tossed it in the air...still spinning, and then caught it on his spatula, still spinning, then tossed it again in the air exempt this time turning his spatula sideways and cracking the egg allowing the egg to fall and catching the egg shell on the spatula.  It was pretty cool.  Alise and I enjoyed luscious lobster tail and Steak as well as shrimp and fried rice and the most delicious Japanese mushroom soup.  I would defiantly recommend this place to anyone.

After dinner we then went to the INB Performing Arts Center and watched a broadway musical.  We really wanted to see a musical and the one playing this particular weekend was "high school musical" which wasn't one we really would have picked first but it was actually quite nice.  It was funny and entertaining.   It was my first time seeing a live play like this and I really want to see another, in fact Alise and I talked to our husbands and they are really excited to go see "Fantom of the Opera" this october.  That should be really good.

Overall the day was perfect and Alise and I have decided this retreat will be a yearly thing.

On another note****HAPPY 5th ANNIVERSARY TO CRAIG AND I*******