Things You Want Out of a Romantic Weekend Away:

• Fancy dinners with great food and drinks
• Sitting close to your significant other in the back of taxis, laughing about something you may not have found as funny if you had kids with you and were in your Suburban
• Concerts and museum visits you wouldn’t normally treat yourself to
• Walks through the city that make you feel like you’re inside a snow globe
• Late morning brunch
• Long hot showers and a big comfy bed with sheets you don’t have to clean

Things You Do Not Want Out of a Romantic Weekend Away:

• A drunk guy nearly passing out on top of your significant other as soon as you get to a concert
• A group of four bros starting a mosh-pit directly in front of you
• Your hotel’s fire alarm going off as soon as you get out of a long shower in the morning and you have to stand outside in 6 degree weather with wet hair
• Going to brunch reluctantly at the café next to your hotel–with wet hair, no socks, no bra, and carrying your beloved laptop & four notebooks, because you can’t get back into your hotel until the fire department makes sure it’s safe to go back in
• Having a taxi driver who has to open his door at every stop light to hock up a loogey and spit it onto the street
• Walking into a snow-globe-like street where it feels as if a toddler is repeatedly throwing said snow globe up against a wall.