Recently The Beard had a birthday and like any good girlfriend I wanted to make sure we celebrated in style! So I covertly booked us a room at the Alexander Hotel downtown and put it in our shared calendar.

Calendar Side Note: If you and your significant other don’t have a shared calendar system on your phones I highly recommend it! We use the google calendar app and that allows us to share our schedules with each other. Add that unexpected meeting, or that extra work shift, that doctor’s appointment, or block out a weekend on the calendar so nothing else is schedule because we are having a date night! It eliminates confusion, frustration and the argument that you did indeed mention that we are having dinner with your parents.

The hotel turned out to be amazing and we would gladly stay there again! It was a chic art boutique type hotel. Was that enough adjectives for you? Basically it was awesome! Let me give you a tour of our room.

See I told you it was amazing! I also brought along some flameless candles for ambiance.

So back to the birthday celebrations! I picked up some GF cookies from Baked and his favorite cold brew from Uel Zing for in room feasting.

We dressed up and went downstairs to the Cerulean Restaurant.

Being a special occasion we wanted to try lots of things on the menu, although to be honest we usually do that anyways. Pork, Lamb, Goat, basically all the major food groups.

Present Time! I wanted to make something special for The Beard and this year I decided to make him a table with all the GPS coordinates of our hikes.

Good news: He loved it! I also included a pair of Navy and Leather Chukka Boots, a new dress shirt from express, a mustache trimming kit and a Tile Tracker Wallet Edition.

If you’ve never heard of the tile tracker, it’s a pretty amazing invention. They make them to attach to your keys, purse, inside your wallet etc., and their location shows up on an app on your phone. Once you are within the vicinity they make noise, allowing you to find your misplaced items! Occasionally The Beard plays hide n seek with his stuff and this little device will help him win the game! Tile Tracker   Tile Wallet Tracker  

We had breakfast at Yolk, a cute cafe attached to the back of the hotel. The food was delicious but my favorite was the strawberry orange juice!

Some of the art in the parking garage.

We had a great birthday get-a-way. I’m a lucky girl to have such an amazing partner and I will never stop making the effort to make him feel special!