One Night

Holidays

On the two and a half hour drive, we listened to a lot of music and we only talked about positive things. I was so glad I was getting away.

"We should go to Patty’s Markets and see if we can find anything cool for Matilda," I suggested.

"Yeah, for sure." Tom agreed.

"Can we go to the Aquarium and the Zoo?" I had the biggest smile on my face.

"Of course. The next couple of days are all about you. We can do whatever you want except on Monday, I have something special planned." He said.

He has planned a lot of the things, he won’t tell me about but I don’t care, I was enjoying myself.

On the drive to Sydney, we had two pit stops because I had to pee. The first one was at Maccas and the next was at a service station, which was pretty gross.

When we finally arrived in Sydney, I just stared out the window. I loved this place. Tom drove around in the crazy traffic like he has lived there his whole life. I was surprised he knew where he was going.

We past Centre Point Tower and then drove up Oxford Street until Tom tuned left and made a stop. I looked out the window to see that he stopped out the front of the Holiday Inn at Potts Point. He parked the car and I faced him.

"I have always wanted to stay at the Holiday Inn!" I smiled.

"I know. That’s why I brought you here," He said leaning over and kissing me on the lips.

Tom got my suitcase and his bag out of the boot and carried through the door and stopped at reception. He checked in (which was under Dad’s name) and the lady handed him the key. He passed on the key to me so he could carry the bags. Our key had the numbers 357, clearly stating our room number.

We went up the elevator then walked down the corridor until we made it to room 357. I scanned our key and the door opened. I walked through and found the bathroom on the right which contained a spa bath.

"Oh my God Tom, there is a spa bath!" I squealed.

"Yeah, I booked the deluxe room so we got the spa and…" He walked over to the window, placing the bags on the bed on the way past and pointed outside. "5 star views!"

I walked to the window and took his hand, then gasped at the view. Directly in front was the most perfect view of Centre Point Tower and to the right were the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House.

"WOW!" I said.

"Its’ beautiful, isn’t it?" We stood there hand in hand staring out the window.

Eventually we made our way on to the bed and unpacked our clothes. I rang Mum to let her know we were at the Hotel and she told me to make sure I had fun. I guaranteed I would because I already was.

After I got off the phone and Tom had unpacked all the clothes, he asked;

"So, I was wondering if you would like to take a look at this pamphlet."

He handed me a piece of paper, so I took it and read it. It was for the massage therapy suite downstairs.

"That would be so amazing right now," I said rolling my neck around.

"Well, I was thinking, why don’t we go to the aquarium and then when we get back, you can go for your massage while I go to the gym." He suggested.

"Sounds good. Let’s go!" I said excitedly, grabbing my bag and started to head out the door.

Tom ran after me, trying to catch up.

"In a bit of a hurry, are you?" He laughed.

"I’m excited." I smiled. "And we only have four days to fit in everything so we can’t wait around."