How to Sabbath

This post is going to be part informational but also part looking for more umm...informational from you guys. Let me explain, I've had an extended weekend which has been really good, the weird thing is that the part of the weekend that I thought was going to be stressful was the most relaxing and the part that was supposed to be relaxing was slow, boring and maybe even tiring.
Long story short, I took Thursday off from work to drive to Salinas to take care of some business. This was going to be a big headache. Infact because it was Thursday morning Arpee and I had to leave Wednesday night. To top it off I was schedule to give a quick recruitment message to the men's morning Bible study which is 6am. So we had to leave Thursday night thereby doing about 5 hours of driving within 24 hours and negotiate alittle bit of a stressful situation.
Well, oddly enough so far this has been the most relaxing and fulfilling part of the weekend. I don't know if it's because I got things accomplished, or if it was just knowing that it was another day off work but it felt really good. Friday we were planning on cleaning up the apartment but mostly just layed around all day. Saturday we mostly spent at the inlaws which is great but not so relaxing. Tomorrow is Sunday, a huge day with lots of responsibilities.
I still have memorial day Monday off which will hopefully be good, but this weekend has left me wondering what makes a relaxing sabbath. Should I keep myself relatively busy? I've over loaded myself before during weekends and that's not fun. Is doing nothing better? This seems like it tires me out in a completely different way, maybe it's frustration.
My question: how do you guys rest best?
fat rhyme huh?