Hey, give me some ideas here peoples!

[WOT?*]

My anniversary is Monday.  8 years married, poor guy, and almost 19 years together.  Ex and his wife want to take the girls for a "weekend" from Friday after school until Sunday after church so we will be without kids Friday night after I drop them off (90 minutes north of my house, which makes it a 2 hour return if I drive directly downtown to DH's office if we want to do something downtown Friday night.)  We are very seldom kids-free.  I had kids when we met, then we were kid-free for a couple years and now we have the 2 grands.  I couldn't talk them into keeping them an additional overnight (there is no school on Monday) or even just later Sunday because they "have plans."  Yeah, I'd like to have plans too but I'm raising your grandkids so I'll not have the luxury for another ten years or so.  Throw me a bone so we can have a weekend to do a weekend thing and not have to check in at 11:00 on a Friday or leave at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday.  I'd LOVE to be able to go out to the peninsula for a weekend getaway.

So, Friday night after a long day at work through Sunday at 9:00 a.m. so we can pick up the kids at noon - what would you do?

So far, I have the Book of Mormon is playing.  Tickets are $700 for two.  Worth it?  I'm also thinking hotel downtown Friday night, do a Pike Place Market/downtown thing and head home Saturday night to pick up the kids on Sunday.

We can do an overnight (or late late check-in on Friday and leave early Sunday but that's two days hotel room) in a resort on the peninsula but have to leave early Sunday instead to get the girls.  As in veeeeeery early, to catch ferries or whatever.  There's a ferry to his island from the peninsula and we can walk on to get the girls there.  Maybe spend another night with the girls on the peninsula since there's no school Monday?

[underwaterrhymes]

We LOVED Book of Mormon.

LOVED it.

We did not pay $700 for it, though. I'm not sure we would have loved it quite that much.