Ambivalent One

Christine and I had a nice little getaway this weekend. We went to this auberge (an inn) in St-Agathe Des Monts. It’s a nice town in Quebec. This place has nice scenery, themed inns and a street that has like 6 “adult” stores on it. Considering that this town only has five real roads I would say that’s a lot of sex shops. Anyways, the place we stayed was called “Aux nuits de rêve”. Essentially dream nights.

The people who own the inn have basically converted the main floor of their house in to theme rooms. Christine and I stayed in the Tarzan and Jane room. It’s expensive but I would recommend it for anyone feeling a little adventuresome.

Because we stayed two nights they included a spa day at Ofuro Spa. It's inspired by traditional Japanese spas.

If you go on your own they charge thirty five dollars for entrance. This covers access to the dry sauna, steam room, two cold pools, a nice little river area and two hot tubs. They called what we got Thermo-therapy. Maybe it's all bullshit but whatever. It was relaxing. You sit in the sauna or steam room for about five minutes and you sweat like a pig. Then you go in to one of the cold pools or the rivers for a couple of minutes and then you sit in a hot tub for fifteen minutes. They told us to cycle through about three or four times. It doesn't sound like much but it was super relaxing. It's set on the side of a mountain in the deep forests of Quebec. If that doesn't scream Japanese then I don't know what does.





The spa also offers a number of other spa things you pay extra for such as massages and manicures and all that other spa shit. I just enjoyed spending some nice relaxing time with my favorite lady.

After our relaxing day we decided to do some shopping. We needed a snack after all that work we did at the spa. The parking lot we stopped in had a building in it. It caught my eye for some reason. I can't explain why. I just needed to photograph it.


We spent the rest of our day in a paddle boat exploring the lake. We had worked up quite the appetite so we went to a pizza place that cooks them on a wood fired stove. It was pretty good. Here's a shot from the corner where the pizza place is.


This is a cool shot I took from the dock at the inn.


That concludes the longest blog entry I have ever done.

Posted by Sean on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 6/15/2005 12:43:00 AM | Permalink