Howdy, good day! Matt, Riese, Wes, and I spent the Thanksgiving vacation out on the Salamander Resort in Middleburg, VA. Riese’s fifth (!!) birthday was on Thanksgiving day, and we had been fortunate to have each units of grandparents be part of us for the celebrations!
Top-of-the-line issues about this resort is the large open areas – numerous room to romp, which is nice as this man does NOT cease shifting!
Listed below are among the highlights from our journey.
Thanksgiving on the Salamander Resort in Middleburg
Time with Household
The most important spotlight was attending to spend time with household! It was nice to have each units of grandparents with us for the journey, particularly since Riese’s birthday was within the combine. She was SO excited for the entire journey, it was actually cute.
One of many large highlights for her was she obtained to experience a pony once more! (She rode one when we came to the Salamander for the first time again in April for a couple of nights over her spring break.)
The horses had been an enormous hit – the stables are a brief stroll from the primary resort, so we visited them a pair occasions throughout our keep.
Thanksgiving Morning Turkey Trot 5k
Matt’s mother and father watched the children for us on Thanksgiving morning so Matt and I might take part within the 5k turkey trot the resort was internet hosting! It was attractive out – chilly and sunny – excellent for operating!
The course was actually lovely, too. It was all on the property and totally on trails. I hadn’t run on trails in a very long time and it’s so pretty!
However oh man these HILLS! We felt just like the course was in some way 95% uphill… woof, not a straightforward 5k! Right here was one of many temporary slight downhill reprieves. 😉 I used to be undoubtedly feeling the truth that many of the runs I do these days are flat!
Beautiful, huh?
It felt actually good to get on the market even with how difficult the course was with the hills. My watch solely stated 3 miles as a substitute of three.1, however, no matter!
The Meals!
The Salamander resort has wonderful meals. For breakfast two of the mornings, I obtained their avocado toast, which was mainly a murals with pomegranate arils, pickled butternut squash sticks, cheese, and edible flowers!
And one of many mornings I had the veggie omelette with cheddar – additionally very yummy. Omelettes really feel like a elaborate breakfast as a result of I don’t normally have time to make them at house on the common!
I used to be additionally a giant fan of their inexperienced smoothies, and their bacon.
For lunch we stored issues low key since Wes goes down for his nap at midday. We ordered room service one of many days (I had a easy salad), and the opposite day my mother frolicked in our room for us whereas Wes napped and Riese watched a present so Matt and I might seize lunch on our personal.
This was a pleasant deal with in comparison with the opposite meals which all concerned wrangling Wes – my goodness he’s a HANDFUL at eating places in the meanwhile. We had one dinner the place he did tremendous nicely however the remainder of the meals all required one of many adults strolling across the resort with him whereas the others ate, then swapping out.
The day Matt and I had lunch on our personal was Thanksgiving – I had a caesar salad with shrimp. Yummy! And never too heavy since we had been having our Thanksgiving buffet dinner at 4:30.
We did presents in our room for Riese’s birthday earlier than going to the buffet for an early Thanksgiving dinner. The buffet was INSANE y’all – so many choices! We began with shrimp cocktail and oysters shared by everybody, then I moved on to a soup and salad course:
After which the primary occasion! The turkey was actually good however I particularly beloved the bread with their house-made whipped honey butter – so good!
For dessert, we requested if the workers might discover us a birthday candle scenario, they usually did, together with an enormous plate with mainly one in every of all the things from their dessert buffet! Fortunately Riese was prepared to share. 😉
I beloved the mini pumpkin pies – I ended up going again for one more one!
The opposite two nights of our journey we had dinner of their most important high quality eating restaurant, Harriman’s. It was dicey juggling Wes (and his present “destructo” mode – he tries to throw all the things on the ground, together with any china, cups, and so on. inside attain, oof) in a pleasant restaurant however we made it work and the meals was wonderful.
I began with a salad and oysters the primary evening:
After which had the lobster plus some unpictured shared sides.
The second evening I had the identical starters, after which tried the filet steak. It was tremendous scrumptious however I didn’t bear in mind to get a photograph!
Romping Across the Property
As I discussed earlier than, top-of-the-line issues about this resort is all of the large open SPACE! So nice for youths.
Wes additionally beloved this monumental chess board, particularly when somebody was making an attempt to truly play it (and he stored shifting the items round whereas I tried to place all of them again immediately after him…)
We had a very pretty sundown a few the nights!
And we noticed the dawn a few the mornings too, from breakfast (early chook particular… the children didn’t sleep tremendous nicely whereas we had been there which was unlucky for everybody concerned):
Till subsequent time, Salamander Resort… thanks for the enjoyable occasions!
