We recently celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary and it was nothing short of awesome! Well, it was maybe 90% awesome because we left Koomi at daycare for 2 nights so half the time we’re just missing him, wondering how he’s doing, if he can sleep at all (cos boy we can haha). We even visited him at daycare before our dinner date. That’s how much we missed our goodest boi. We thought it would be a sweet escape being away from him a couple of nights but we found ourselves actually worrying and resolving to never leave him overnight at daycare anymore. When we came to visit he was so clingy, wanting to jump out of the crate, he didn’t even finish his dinners. His tear stains are quite excessive that time and although we know it’s not from actual crying, it still pains to see him wanting to be held so much. We trust Hachi Kamp, it’s a really good place for Koomi but it’s our first time leaving him for the night so yeah. Is this something you get used to? I certainly hope not cos we don’t want to leave him out of vacations anymore.
Oh well, back to our anniv celebration. We booked 2 nights at EDSA Shang which is pretty much walking distance from home haha. We’ve been meaning to try it out for the longest time and finally we did! It was a pretty spontaneous decision. I booked the night before our stay. We only had dinner at Ruth’s Chris planned but thought it wouldn’t hurt to add something else to the agenda, since we have the whole weekend.
It was soooo freaking refreshing, a 5-star stay. We definitely missed it! It’s been more than a year since our last hotel stay (Nobu) and if you know us, that’s bleak haha. We kinda had it coming taking a dog in, so it was fun to finally get to experience it again.
My favorite part of the stay was THE SHOWER. Oh my god, I JUST HAD THE BEST SHOWER IN AGES. The water pressure is so strong, it heats up so fast, and it doesn’t flood no matter how long you stayed underneath the rainshower. We didn’t have a bathtub but this is so much better. There’s even a bench where you can just sit down and soak in all the steam. Pressure is strong enough for a hydromassage. And even with all the steam coming out, the bathroom did not fog. They have a really strong exhaust you can feel the hot steam being carried upwards so in a way I’m kindof like in a steam room. What a heavenly feeling!
They prepared a little something on the bed for us because I mentioned we’re celebrating our anniversary. Also gave us banana bread to snack on. Really nice touch.
I requested for bigger slippers but the biggest they gave is probably a size 9 haha still a couple inches short for my husband hehe.
They have a pillow menu so I took the liberty to order everything in it. There’s only 3 anyway: buckwheat, cassia seeds, and contour pillow. I didn’t know the difference so I checked all three haha. The buckwheat is like a heavier down pillow. The one with cassia seeds is like those microwaveable hot compress pillows, really heavy, great for pillow fights. I love the contour pillow. It’s the one with the curves for neck support. Really helped me sleep well. Though I did wake up with back pain. I think there’s something wrong with my back. The bed was perfect, it had memory foam topping, super firm support, lots and lots of pillows, I think we had 7 all in all haha. But still, my back ached in the morning. Maybe I’m not good with memory foam toppers. I don’t know. It’s just so fun and cozy hiding under the warm duvet, while the room freezes at 18degC.
Then we had our annual Ruth’s Chris dinner date, which was perfect. And I think, in the 4 times we’ve dined with them I’ve established my favorites already. Porterhouse, crab cakes, amaretto sour, and tomato soup.
When we got back to the hotel we ordered desserts through room service. I was still so full from dinner but wouldn’t pass up on dessert. We got 3 cakes and a fruit platter lol. Jeckie got hazelnut praline and chocolate mousse, I got fruits and flourless chocolate cake. Each order was around 400 each and our bill amounted to 2k++. Just for desserts lol. I didn’t even get to finish half of my cake because I didn’t like the peanuty taste. I devoured the fruits though. I love eating fruits that are perfectly cut haha.
So 7 years huh? Yeah that’s 7 years married, and 13 years together. I can’t believe it!