Couples Retreat

This past weekend Aaron and I had a couples night with our good friends, Jimmy and Jana Miller. You can go ahead and erase images of the 5 star hotel and spa, too. Don't you know I'm married to Aaron Hermanson?! No, it was off to the mountains, the woods, no bathroom ya'll.



We rode the Palm Springs Tram on San Jacinto Mountain for the first 8500 feet then hiked about 3ish miles to our campsite. Aaron and Jimmy had already camped at this site a few weeks prior and liked it so much they wanted to share the experience with Jana and me. It took us about 2 hours to get there and by the way, it's not a paved with handrails hike either. And those backpacks aren't filled with cottonballs. They are filled with lots of heavy stuff like water. So we set up camp and promptly took a very long nap. After waking up and feeling very well rested, Aaron and I went exploring. We found some big rocks to climb and logs to jump over. Well, Aaron climbed the rocks. And jumped over the logs.


Later, we joined up with the Millers to climb more perilous, rocky mountains to take some more pictures. Of ourselves.


And did I mentioned how awful the view was?



We couldn't have asked for a more perfect night. Full moon, about 55 degrees and not a breeze in the air. The only downside of a full moon is that it is extremely bright. Like the sun. Both of us had to sleep entirely inside our sleeping bags. And it was so quiet that when I got up to pee in the middle of the night I thought for sure that noise would wake up everybody. Just to let you know (since I've already shared that information) it is quite intimidating to pee in the spotlight of the moon. AND, you would also think that I wouldn't have peed on my pajama leg with it being so bright outside. Wrong. I guess that's what you call "roughing it", right?

Aaron couldn't wait to drag me out of my sleeping bag just so he could get a picture of us by our tent. He is so darn chipper in the morning. All I'm thinking is "Where's the nearest IHOP?" Just kidding, it just takes awhile for my face muscles to start working.

Finally, it was time to head back down the mountain. Time for a group picture!

We really had a great time. Aaron's already planning for another backpacking adventure. It was nice to take off our "parent hats" and just be a couple, if only for 24 hours.