This
post is long overdue! Back in February,
I had a girls weekend away to celebrate all of us turning 30. I’ve been friends with this group of ladies
since elementary school and we've talked about girls weekend for a long time. Most of us still live in Virginia, but we
have one in Pennsylvania and one in North Carolina. We decided on the mountains and rented a
cabin in Wintergreen, VA. It was
perfect. We didn't turn the TV on
once. The best thing about these girls
is that we pick up as if we were still in high school spending every day with
each other. Most of the time was spent
upstairs in the common area chatting away.
Reading
so many blogs, I really wanted to do a favorite things party. We originally had planned on drawing names
and buying a birthday gift for the name we chose. I convinced all the girls to jump on the ‘favorite
things’ bandwagon J
Many of the girls were a little skeptical, but afterwards said they were
looking forward to next year’s favorite things party! Woohoo! We were going to wait until Saturday evening
to have the party, but as we were chatting someone would say, “man, I wish I
had some chap-stick” and it would make us excited to give our favorite things
out to everyone. So, we decided to just
give all of our gifts to each other around midnight Friday night. Everyone went
and explained their gifts to everyone.
There were 9 of us (one of us couldn't make it), so everyone brought a favorite thing for all 9 with
a budget of $0-$5 per gift.
Saturday
was spent relaxing and chatting all day.
We finally got motivated to shower and get ready in time to head to
Devil’s Backbone Brewery for dinner, drinks, and music. Three of us (myself included) were pregnant,
so no drinks for us!
The night ended on
a game of “leaving” two girls from our group at the brewery because they weren't coming when everyone else wanted to leave.
Hilarious. The rest of us packed into the car and pretended to leave
them there. Bitchy, but so funny all at
the same time. It was fun pulling the
cars into a convenient store parking lot waiting for them to call and freak out
that we had left them. They never
called. We ended up having to go back in
and get them. Womp Womp.
We
made a promise to do girls weekend every year, so I cannot wait until next
year!
This looks like so much fun! I have only done a girls weekend once. I really need to do it more!
ReplyDeleteThis was my first girls weekend since having kids and I hope we stay true to the once a year weekend away - it was so much fun. You should plan something for sure! xoxo
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