My first spa experience

This weekend Tom and I invited some friends to Brook Farm. There was a big barn dance on Saturday night at a neighboring farm, which I'll tell you about in a later post. James and Megan came from the Cotswolds and Tom and Siobhan came down from Brighton. Everyone arrived in time for a BBQ early on Saturday afternoon. After enjoying a variety of burgers us girls went off to the spa for some girly time.

For a while we've been talking about doing a spa day as we never do things just the girls. But, we found it very difficult to plan a weekend when everone was available. I stumbled across an amazing spa deal a few weeks ago that happened to be only 10 minutes away from Brook Farm, at Breathe Spa, which I thought would be perfect - most of our friends from this group were already planning on being together.

We were booked in for a mud serial bath. I imagined we would all lie down on a comfortable table and have mud massaged into us. It was not at all like I imagined. A very friendly girl greeted us and gave us towels, robes and slippers. Once changed we were led to our treatment room. As we walked in a big bowl of mud was staring at us. We just started laughing. There were three little spatulas in the pot and we had to cover ourselves with the mud!! It took ages using the spatulas and after not too long we just reaching in with our hands and covering ourselves with the lovely brown mud. I was really sad I didn't take my camera in with me! Once fully covered we stepped into the steam room. We sat there chatting and relaxing waiting until it would start to rain "like we were in a rainforest". That's what the girl said. But the "rainforest" was actually two shower heads that came on suddenly at full force. Siobhan and I both screamed!

Once rinsed of mud us girls enjoyed the sauna, ice shower and the pool. It actually was a really fun experience and my leg do feel very smooth now!

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