ES3 Christmas Party

Each year, for Bryan's work Christmas party, we get to have dinner and entertainment and then they put us up in a hotel room.  It is really generous of them and we enjoy it every year.  In the past it was always at Snowbird or The Canyons (I guess it was so that people could ski the next day, but we never did.)  But this year they decided to host it at the Grand America in Salt Lake.  It was Swanky, with a capital S!  Everything was super fancy (way, way fancier than we need or expect.  We are pretty low-key and this was very frou-frou.)  But we had a great time!

Here's our beautiful room and bathroom.  Everything was luxurious; marble all over the bathrooms, super plush robes, and even a free pair of slippers that Bryan has been wearing every day at home since we got back! :)

Each room had a separate sitting area and a balcony.

Here is the closet and vanity area.  (Those double doors were so pretty, but Bryan and I BOTH totally smashed our fingers opening them!  Bad design on those door handles...if you put your hand on the handle and push them open, it smashes your hand on the adjacent door.  We figured out that you need to just push on both doors at the same time (not on the handle) and you'd be OK.)  

They even had a bathroom scale, which was not so great after eating a big buffet dinner! Ha!

 Here we are on our way to dinner...

 ...and by the cool gingerbread house outside the ballroom.

We feel pretty lucky to have this night away each year.  AND, since our anniversary is December 14th, this is always a fun little anniversary treat!