They arrived on Thursday afternoon and sweet Dave picked them up from the airport until I was home from work. Four out of five of the girls are moms, so the theme of the weekend was, "Welcome to Cougarville." I rearranged the chalkboard accordingly (with pictures of their kiddies and hubbies).
Chalkboard for their arrival
Starting off the weekend with some champy. From left, we have Nicole, Mary, Me, Elizabeth, Tanya and Meg
We went out on Thursday night, literally ran into my friend Ben who went to high school with all of us, and thus started our quest to rid San Francisco of all its liquor.
Friday morning we got up early. I worked from home, but figured they could manage for the day with shopping, eating, manis and pedis...somehow they would survive. We walked up to the Golden Gate Bridge that morning (our only exercise for the weekend...these girls even forced us to take taxis in our neighborhood which is just sac-relig).
Posing like rock stars on the GG Bridge
Elizabeth posing as Kimmie Gibler at the street from Full House
Friday night, it was game on and we were ready to rock. We started with a photo of our weekend theme....
Cougars, Baby
On the dance floor, where - at the time - I was pretty sure I could throw down in a dance-off with Janet Jackson
Saturday, we were up and at 'em early again. We figured that we slept approximately 10 hours over the course of 4 days...no time to rest when the six of us are together!
We took taxis to Tiburon (across the Bay) to Sam's where we indulged in just a few of their famous pink lemonades.
The Girls enjoying the sunshine...we were all lobsters by day's end
Meg had to keep a life preserver handy
...And then she became Captain Meg
We took the ferry back from Sam's to SF and decided sushi and sake bombs were in order next.
Sake Bombs...the beginning of the end...or the end of the beginning??
Meg's hair size and alcohol intake is famous for corresponding exactly to one another
...and after sake bombs, Eliz wanted to hit up karaoke, so we headed to Silver Clouds where she and Meg quite possibly sang the worst rendition of Dancing Queen....ever.
No time to rest on Sunday morning as we had a 9:30am (!!!) appointment for a tour to Alcatraz. I had never been, so was really excited to finally see this "island" that is just over 1 mile from our apartment.
The Girls checking out one of the cells...wondering if they can escape San Fran before ending up in one of these due to "loud and obnoxious behavior"??
After Alcatraz, Dave was sweet (and patient!) enought to chauffer the six of us to Napa for the day!!! We only made it to two wineries...Mumm (for champy) and Del Dotto.
Hanging in the sunshine at Mumm
Dave hung with us at the first tasting, then ditched us for the next tasting, which took us over two hours to complete! Elizabeth smelling the "bunghole" of a wine cask
Seeing a theme here? "You can take a Girl out of Cougarville, but you can't take the Cougar out of the Girl."
We hit the town on Sunday night, and finally had to say goodbye as the girls left at 4am on Monday to go home-sweet-home. I was reminded at least a hundred times how grateful I am to have these five girls (and the ones that couldn't make it!) in my adult life. I hear that it's pretty rare to be BF with girls from high school (and middle school!), so I am beyond appreciative that I have these women (cougars, if you will), that I can turn to with anything at anytime. We've known each other for 20 years and it just gets better and better! xoxo
1 comment:
wow ! You girls had so much fun --- I was laughing so hard at MOST of those pictures! ha! SF is so amazing and it's so great that they all came out there for a girl weekend! It made me want to see you all again ...xoxo from Nashville!
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