{"id":53479,"date":"2017-10-16T07:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=53479"},"modified":"2017-10-15T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T00:37:14","slug":"playing-hooky-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=53479","title":{"rendered":"Playing Hooky"},"content":{"rendered":"

For an anniversary gift, Michael surprised me with suggesting we book a couple’s massage. I looked around for something in Portland and found a stellar place! But first, a lunch date!<\/p>\n

We played hooky and took off half the day from work and went out to lunch. We went to Stella Tac<\/span>o<\/a>\u00a0on SE Division. There are a ton of cool new restaurants on SE Division that we’ve been wanting to check out but never have the opportunity.<\/p>\n

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Stella Taco was a cute, hip place with “street” tacos on the menu. It was a casual joint, with the order-at-the-bar and bus your own table model (which I’m not usually a huge fan of, but…it was ok). It was cheap, so that’s nice.<\/p>\n

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I got one of of the fish street tacos and one carnitas. There were small, like three or four bites worth.<\/p>\n

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Michael got the carnitas, beef and chorizo street tacos. Everything was really fresh. I liked my tacos a lot but they weren’t spicy. The carnitas was pretty flavorful but I wished that the fish taco had a little more flavor, it was a tad bland. But I think with some spice they could have been great!<\/p>\n

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Michael said the chorizo tacos were spicy. We had lunch and then went to a dive bar nearby for beers. We had about an hour and a half to kill after lunch before our massages. Boneyard RPM! Our favorite beer on tap! It was nice to just chill in the quiet bar, not rushed or anything.<\/p>\n

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Then we walked around SE Hawthorne for a bit. We had no destination, just wandering. We stopped in Red Light <\/a><\/span>(a funky, hip consignment store) that had a ton of retro clothes and halloween costumes and we hung out a bit. I was super excited about the cheesy 70’s pantsuits! Sadly, I didn’t find anything that really spoke to me enough to buy for Halloween. \ud83d\ude09 There were some real gems, though!<\/p>\n

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On a whim we stopped in at Blue Star D<\/span>onuts<\/a> and Michael bought a blueberry bourbon basil donut–apparently Blue Star is something pretty amazing. I wasn’t all that impressed after a few bites.<\/p>\n

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Then it was time for our appointments. I had looked around and found a place called Laurelhurst Massa<\/span>ge<\/a> by Laurelhurst Park. It was SO great! We both agreed they were some of the best massages we’ve had. It was a really relaxing and wonderful experience.<\/p>\n

Rick and Greg have a massage studio in a space behind their house. It’s a cute space among nice, old Portland craftsman houses. The studio downstairs had a bathroom and a decent sized spa that we got to use before our massages.<\/p>\n

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The sauna was so nice! We’ve been talking about wanting our own sauna at home someday…Anyways, the sauna was great and so relaxing. The door to the sauna had a really pretty glass etching, too, of Multnomah Falls. Very cool.<\/p>\n

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After about 10 or 15 minutes in the sauna, we used the double spa shower that had like 6 shower heads, dried off and then had our couple’s massage upstairs in the massage room. (They had big fluffy bathrobes and nice towels for us.)<\/p>\n

They were fabulous massages! So good and relaxing. I fell asleep halfway through my massage. Michael got a pretty deep sports massage and was pretty happy with his. We had a great time and will most definitely go back to use them again. If you are in the Portland area and looking a luxurious afternoon spa getaway, I recommend it!<\/p>\n

After our massages we melted outside to the car \ud83d\ude09 and then went to pick up our little dude from daycare and head home.<\/p>\n

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It was a good change from the routine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For an anniversary gift, Michael surprised me with suggesting we book a couple’s massage. I looked around for something in Portland and found a stellar place! But first, a lunch date! We played hooky and took off half the day from work and went out to lunch. We went to Stella Taco\u00a0on SE Division. There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2500,35,4942,2770,95,104,2565,107,160,164,165,2559,168,169,195,6297,196,5167,3588,2806,5170],"tags":[3689,355,8585,9618,6822,4842,9615,8671,9614,8691,2775,9619,9617,9616,6997],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53479"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53502,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53479\/revisions\/53502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}