Galena Get-Away

Chris and I had a fabulous get-away to Galena, IL, to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. We arrived around lunchtime on Monday, ate at Vinny Vanucchi's, and shopped some of the cool stores downtown. Then we took the short trek out of town to Galena Cellars Vineyard for some wine tasting. After that we headed to our awesome bed and breakfast/inn, the Inn at Irish Hollow, to check in. Chris surprised me with a dozen roses waiting in the room! That evening we drove back to town to eat at 111 Main, and had a great dinner. In the morning we were treated to an outstanding breakfast of fruit, chocolate-zucchini muffins, and a plate of corn cakes with red bell pepper relish, organic herb scrambled eggs, and chicken/apple sausage. We then each had 75 minute massages with a hot stone therapy treatment. It was bliss! Hard to come back to the real world, but my mother (who was watching Matthew), was nice enough to let us go out the evening we got back to see the movie Julie and Julia. A wonderful end to a fantastic two days.

Some shots of downtown, and the food we ate...

Chris and I at lunch and dinner...


The Inn at Irish Hollow...