As of Friday we were married for two years already and to celebrate the paper anniversary the most suitable option would be written, like write a love letter for your spouse. Further appropriate presents would have been book, calendar, painting, photo album, family chronicle, tickets to theater, cinema or some other event, magazine subscription, puzzle, flights for two. We thought better to not traumatize each other with self drawn pictures and there's no space for a puzzle, so we booked a room in Laulasmaa to spend a relaxing weekend there in saunas and pools and enjoying some treatments while spending the rest of the time reading books.
We got out of town on Friday right before the rush hour and made it to our balcony just in time for the sunset. Changed and walked to the water park to spend the hour before dinner lazying in pools and saunas. We checked out the steam sauna, pine cone sauna and few more. I also introduced Scott the outside pool, which he considered too cold.
Dinner was planned in Wicca, which already few years has been among the 50 best restaurants in Estonia. Among warm pork jelly and sweet soup of lamb milk we also found something less extreme and more suitable for us and ordered elk and chantarelle tartar, selection of cheese and Baltic herring for starters, lamb tenderloin and fried pike perch for mains and black currant cake for dessert. When the server came to refill our champagne flutes, my ever so talkative husband informed him that we are celebrating our anniversary and the server got us the first round on him. Pays off to be chatty, I guess. Food was amazing - elk tender, lamb and fish juicy and the black currant cake added a nice and light touch to the end of the meal.
On Saturday we could watch the sunrise from bed and to make the best out of a great weather we went for a walk on the beach after breakfast. Couldn't make it very long, because already at 1pm we had our first treatments - massages and salt cave planned. Right after that we also returned to the water park and saunas. Since we had picked our favourites yesterday, we beelined right to salt and steam sauna and the pine cone sauna. While going to the pools, Scott discovered the Finnish sauna outside and we also checked that one out. When I got into outside pool after the Finnish sauna, he first had that daring look on his face like "Yeah, right, you'll go..." and after he followed me to the pool, the next stage was that I was lazying in the jaccuzi and Scott was still going from sauna to pool and back. I told him that once we have snow in winter again, he can do that in our lakehouse with sauna and snow.
For dinner we chose Verde today. The menu was not as fancy as in Wicca next door (no beer foam for dessert), but then again, everything seemed delicious (we didn't have to find our way through warm pork jelly). We chose marinated catfish and beef carpaccio for the starters, duck salad and corn chicken for mains and Vana Tallinn Creme Brulee and raspberry cottage cheese patties for dessert. So good!
At 10pm we fell into the bed and imagined sleeping until 9am and then, all well rested go and have some breakfast. Well, guess again. At 6am I woke up on a fire alarm and panicked husband. I opened the door and since there didn't seem to be any smoke, we didn't evacuate. Five minutes later the alarm was shut off. And... merely 10 minutes later it went off again. It seemed that also people from beach residence had gotten out now. I put on my boots to go down to the reception to see, if there is the situation "Save yourself, who can!". Also from other rooms, families made their way down, everyone fully dressed to face the January weather. Because you shouldn't catch a cold in January weather while escaping from a burning building. From the reception guests were sent back to the rooms, apparently it was an automatic alarm. Back in the room, we had to listen to the third alarm and after that it remained quiet.
Around 9am we made our way to the breakfast. Scott had done a great research and planning yesterday and knew exactly, what kind of gigantic sandwich he's going to make himself. Out of half a loaf of ciabatta, bacon, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, salami and mustard he created a sandwich worth getting a full page in the Guiness Book of Records.
We had hot parafin treatments booked, got silky smooth feet and hands and were ready to go home. On Friday, when picking up the car from the rental, we saw on the paper that we got a Mazda. You can imagine our surprise on Sunday when it was a Peugeot in the hotel parking lot that peeped and no Mazda within sight.
We got out of town on Friday right before the rush hour and made it to our balcony just in time for the sunset. Changed and walked to the water park to spend the hour before dinner lazying in pools and saunas. We checked out the steam sauna, pine cone sauna and few more. I also introduced Scott the outside pool, which he considered too cold.
Dinner was planned in Wicca, which already few years has been among the 50 best restaurants in Estonia. Among warm pork jelly and sweet soup of lamb milk we also found something less extreme and more suitable for us and ordered elk and chantarelle tartar, selection of cheese and Baltic herring for starters, lamb tenderloin and fried pike perch for mains and black currant cake for dessert. When the server came to refill our champagne flutes, my ever so talkative husband informed him that we are celebrating our anniversary and the server got us the first round on him. Pays off to be chatty, I guess. Food was amazing - elk tender, lamb and fish juicy and the black currant cake added a nice and light touch to the end of the meal.
On Saturday we could watch the sunrise from bed and to make the best out of a great weather we went for a walk on the beach after breakfast. Couldn't make it very long, because already at 1pm we had our first treatments - massages and salt cave planned. Right after that we also returned to the water park and saunas. Since we had picked our favourites yesterday, we beelined right to salt and steam sauna and the pine cone sauna. While going to the pools, Scott discovered the Finnish sauna outside and we also checked that one out. When I got into outside pool after the Finnish sauna, he first had that daring look on his face like "Yeah, right, you'll go..." and after he followed me to the pool, the next stage was that I was lazying in the jaccuzi and Scott was still going from sauna to pool and back. I told him that once we have snow in winter again, he can do that in our lakehouse with sauna and snow.
For dinner we chose Verde today. The menu was not as fancy as in Wicca next door (no beer foam for dessert), but then again, everything seemed delicious (we didn't have to find our way through warm pork jelly). We chose marinated catfish and beef carpaccio for the starters, duck salad and corn chicken for mains and Vana Tallinn Creme Brulee and raspberry cottage cheese patties for dessert. So good!
At 10pm we fell into the bed and imagined sleeping until 9am and then, all well rested go and have some breakfast. Well, guess again. At 6am I woke up on a fire alarm and panicked husband. I opened the door and since there didn't seem to be any smoke, we didn't evacuate. Five minutes later the alarm was shut off. And... merely 10 minutes later it went off again. It seemed that also people from beach residence had gotten out now. I put on my boots to go down to the reception to see, if there is the situation "Save yourself, who can!". Also from other rooms, families made their way down, everyone fully dressed to face the January weather. Because you shouldn't catch a cold in January weather while escaping from a burning building. From the reception guests were sent back to the rooms, apparently it was an automatic alarm. Back in the room, we had to listen to the third alarm and after that it remained quiet.
Around 9am we made our way to the breakfast. Scott had done a great research and planning yesterday and knew exactly, what kind of gigantic sandwich he's going to make himself. Out of half a loaf of ciabatta, bacon, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, salami and mustard he created a sandwich worth getting a full page in the Guiness Book of Records.
We had hot parafin treatments booked, got silky smooth feet and hands and were ready to go home. On Friday, when picking up the car from the rental, we saw on the paper that we got a Mazda. You can imagine our surprise on Sunday when it was a Peugeot in the hotel parking lot that peeped and no Mazda within sight.
