Dove Mountain

June 2011

We travel often for work. Most of our clients know that we have young children and a few of our awesome clients have watched out family grow. A few years ago, we did a show in Las Vegas where we stayed at the Red Rock Hotel for 10 days. JT was 3 and I was preggo with HeaBug. They were so cool with JT being back stage and thinking he was quite a little boss man.

This year we were doing the same company's meeting but at the Ritz Carlton Dove Mountain Resort outside Tuscon, AZ. The company had bought out the entire hotel for the week. We had rooms for ourselves and our crew, who were coming in from all over. We had a room reserved under Mr B and one under my own name, as a place holder. When we checked in they said, "We have two B reservations." We let them know that we would be staying under Mr. B. At that point, they offered us the option of two rooms... Either a standard room (still a standard at the Ritz!) or and EXECUTIVE SUITE! Mr B quickly says we'll take the latter. I refuse to unpack once our things are delivered to the room because I'm positive it must be a mistake. Client called, no mistake. She just knew we were bringing the family and thought we could use the space! Hello top floor and thank you VERY much.




















That can pretty much describe the  rest of our stay at Dove Mountain. It was beautiful, amazing, breathtaking, fun. The resort itself was extremely family friendly (not the norm for the Ritz). A lot geared toward the kids. A huge waterside and two fantastic pools. Considering my two munchkins were pretty much the only little people there for a few days, we pretty much enjoyed uninterrupted time at the pool.







They ate breakfast on the balcony and hollered down Hello's to members of the staff that they were beginning to recognize. They watched movies that we brought from home and even got ice cream sundaes delivered to the room!

Seeing as it is the desert and 113 outside, our attempts at a hike were quickly squashed a 1/2 mile in. We did make it to the Desert Museum, which was fun but still yucky hot. I took the kids down to the meeting rooms and ball room where they were setting up. We got to spend a lot of time with Mr. B even though we were on show site. We're friends with the people that work with us so the kiddos had plenty of folks to show all their dives and jumps and slides and tricks to. (Thank you Andrew, John and Al!)

We ate tons of delicious food, napped in the air conditioning. When it was too hot to be poolside, they played and watched TV from the very deep soaking tub. HeaBug is potty training and managed to stay dry, night and day, our whole trip there!

The grounds were beautiful, the food was delicious and as much as I enjoyed living the life in a suite at the Ritz, I sure was glad to be home (even if just for a few days) and out of that crazy heat. Something about being in my bed at home and knowing my kids are asleep in theirs just puts me at ease.

Uplights and projecting a logo via a gobo on the side of a mountain!

They are wonderful car travelers and the 10 hour drive (because of potty breaks) was a breeze. I'm so grateful for my super cool kiddos. I'm thankful that we have and awesome company and great clients. I'm glad we made the choice to work for ourselves and thankful that we are able to support ourselves and pass along work to other people. Life is good for the B's.