Spaaah Day

I spent all day with friends (there were 10 of us) at the Lake Austin Spa and it was bliss (minus the lack of booze)! I left here at a little after 9 and picked Lana up and then we drove over to the spa. I told the masseuse I’d never had a massage before when she asked about pressure but I don’t know if she just assumed I’d been to a spa before in general or what. I think she figured out I was a newbie pretty quick though because after signing my health form, she said now the only thing we need to do to get started is for you to hang up your robe on the hook and get under the sheet. HAHA as she’s finishing up her statement I’m disrobing and she’s like go ahead and put your robe back on, I’ll leave for you to do that. Seriously, I was already done and obviously not shy so let’s get on with it. I ended up getting the Perfect Pomegranate treatment for my first foray into spaland – a salt scrub and massage! So it starts out with the scrub, then a shower, then a massage with shea butter instead of oil. Well when she told me i could get up to get into the shower and I had 10 minutes, she said she’d change out the sheets while I was in the shower and as soon as she held the towel over her head I could get in (um, OK?). But other than that everything went really well! I even liked the head massage but could have done without her putting lotion in my hair (although a lot of the girls ended up with oil in their head so maybe not quite as bad).

After our treatments we all met back downstairs and had lunch. I’ve never had a spa type lunch before and it was what I expected (decent just lacking my favorite seasoning – salt). Then we headed out to the pool for a few hours to sunbathe and socialize. Even with reapplying SPF 30 three times (yay me for remembering to reapply) I still ended up burnt. I don’t know if it was the wind or the scrub pulling off my top layer or skin or what but I have a splotchy sunburn at that. I guess it’s not too bad for my first “sun” of the season but I hate to burn and wish I had gotten more even color (mental note to rotate more often).

Even though I had my usual guilt at spending money, I had a really great time relaxing and hanging out! Casey and Brady enjoyed a nice father/daughter day from what I hear too! But about five minutes before I came home, apparently Brady started getting fussy and she took it up a notch when she saw me. Her teeth have to be just killing her because she was just not a happy girl, wouldn’t eat dinner, couldn’t just sit or be held, wanted to nurse and go to sleep. I ended up laying her down for the night the first time at 5:50 (over an hour early) and she woke up half an hour later, so I nursed her some more and took a nap with her and laid her back down and she’s been asleep upstairs for 2 hours solo. Hopefully she makes it through the night – poor girl! She has so many teeth coming in at one time – of her baby teeth, there are eight she doesn’t have yet (or at least all the way in). Right now she has her two upper molars, two upper i-teeth, one lower molar, and one lower eye tooth all confirmed and with tooth that has broken the gum in various forms (upper molars are almost all the way in now). That only leaves two teeth left (a molar and an i-tooth) and where they’re not coming through yet her gums are so hard and inflamed I’m sure they’re making their way out soon. This is definitely the worst that teething has been for her.