Keep the old-
One is silver
And the other gold.
(Yes, you can put a tune to it if you were once a Girl Scout!)
It was time again for a girlfriend get-away. All we could say was hooray! It takes awhile for all 5 of us to get everything coordinated between kiddos/job/husbands (and do this every 2 years) but it's so worth it in the end. We all came in again from California, Ohio, Virginia, Texas (that would be me!) and Keri from Georgia picked us all up. We went to the Blue Ridge Mountains and stayed at "Serenity in the Mountains Spa". Amy found it online in Ohio....and we all didn't actually know what to expect...but it totally exceeded our expectations in soooo many ways.
From the enormous luxurious suite to the top-of-the line spa....all we could say about it is that it ROCKED! We dove into the chocolate covered strawberries, wine, cheese...you name it, it was all-girl spoiling time. We laughed until our bellies hurt with stories about the days gone and the days present.
Not much changes in the comfort and love that we have for eachother over the ... how many years?! From playing Barbie's for hours together one day, to now having daughters playing Barbie's- this is what true friendship is. We all were a tad crazy "back in the day", and can be a bit goofy now too. Authentic lifelong BFF's is what we are.
Here we all are glowing and r e l a x e d after an hour massage and an hour facial-
Getting those toes all pretty...
At a local mountain restaurant where some of us ate fresh fish caught from the river below us- (and uh, for FREE?)
(yep, girls...the tattoo from the gumball machine is still on me!)
Downtown Atlanta- eating, catching up, looking (and laughing hysterically) at old photos of ourselves...
The 2 night spa time with my childhood buds was too short. I stayed another night in a swanky hotel with "Me too!". My friend Dawn left her 4 adorable babies and drove in from South Carolina so we could meet up. The conversation and laughter is never lacking with us but, again, we wish we had more time. After a great late-night yummo Maggianno meal, Dawn's 2 hour bubble bath in the posh hotel bathroom, meeting some fun people in between, shopping a bit, a car jump on the way to the airport from some more friendly people (wwhew!) .......I was off for home with memories to last a lifetime.
