Woohoo Girlfriends Retreat

Last April, my Big Sis and I were chatting via email while we were "working", and I think I was talking about my annual "Time for me to be alone with no kids, no husband, no work" trip, when Big Sis said, "Why don't we go together? Well, that escalated to, "Lets get a group of girls together to have a girlfriend getaway!" So, we did.

August 7-9 of 2009, 9 girls set out to have a wonderfully relaxing weekend. And we did! We rented this BEAUTIFUL country house in the Texas Hill Country. This house comes complete with pool, jacuzzi, fully stocked kitchen, billiard table, piano, wireless internet, satellite TV, and a kind of creepy yet oddly reassuring statue of a little old lady sitting in the backyard forever puffing away on her trusty cigarette. "What on earth is she talking about?" You say? Well, the owner of the house apparently owned an art gallery at some point in Houston, Texas. When she moved up to the Hill Country, some of the art work, including "Pigeon" the old lady statue, went with her. Pigeon was a hoot on our trip. Anyway, back to the plot. We had a BLAST, complete with tubing the Comal River, losing some belongings in said river, drinking Mimosas in the morning as the sun came up, singing karaoke in the living room, torturing a poor waiter at a Brewery Restaurant, playing with a bidet, and having an amazing Mama Mia moment when everyone jumped into the pool as I snapped the pic. It was truly one of my most favorite memories of 2009.

So, Big Sis and I got together and arranged our Second Annual Girlfriend Retreat. Back by popular, and I do mean POPULAR, demand, everyone wanted to go back to the same house. So, today I giddily booked the house. Eight months never seemed so long. I'm so looking forward to this trip. And this time, I think we'll be a bit more prepared for what we can expect in that crazy river! How fun!!!