I'm sitting in a very familiar place...on my butt~haha! I am in the Edmonton airport waiting for a flight out to Boston to meet up with 2 friends from my childhood who I have not seen for a couple of years. We have made a pact to get together every two years which sounds like it shouldn't be too hard but when you consider that one lives in Pennsylvania, the other one in Texas and me from sunny northern Alberta it takes a bit of planning.
Two years ago we all met up in Texas and spent a couple of days together at a grad reunion. The time was short and we had to make every moment count. We holed ourselves up in our room and gabbed our brains out. As grad reunions go, there were many people there that we should have been catching up with but somehow we seemed to gravitate to each other effortlessly and stuck to each other like glue.
Friday afternoon arrival turned into Saturday which turned into Sunday. Too much wine and good talk combined with no sleep for 2 days straight took a drastic toll on my countenance. Ok, I'll be straight with you...I looked like crap! My eyes...red rimmed, puffy with black circles rounding out a raccoon-like appearance. I had a massive headache that had me popping Advil like candy and when I stopped talking and tried to start again I couldn't. Not from lack of trying, more from vocal chords that said "enough" and refused to cooperate further.
When I arrived home my poor husband was sure I had been assaulted somewhere along the way not realizing that I had willingly signed up for the ass-whooping and the other two looked as bad as me! What a great time!!! And that brings me to today, sitting in the airport getting ready to meet up with my girls again.
They say with age comes wisdom and I'm here to say AMEN to that. We are way smarter this time...no more 3 days together, this time we are spending almost a week together with the intention of getting at least 4 hours of sleep every night and maybe some spa time with cool cucumber presses to erase the bags and black under-eye circles before we get home. All bets are off with the wine though, no promises there!
From Boston we will be heading to Cape Cod and then over to Martha's Vineyard. Pics to follow as well as stories from the road trip...I'm quite sure there will be many colorful moments and I can't wait to see what I look like on the way home after a whole week with these two, good times!
Two years ago we all met up in Texas and spent a couple of days together at a grad reunion. The time was short and we had to make every moment count. We holed ourselves up in our room and gabbed our brains out. As grad reunions go, there were many people there that we should have been catching up with but somehow we seemed to gravitate to each other effortlessly and stuck to each other like glue.
Friday afternoon arrival turned into Saturday which turned into Sunday. Too much wine and good talk combined with no sleep for 2 days straight took a drastic toll on my countenance. Ok, I'll be straight with you...I looked like crap! My eyes...red rimmed, puffy with black circles rounding out a raccoon-like appearance. I had a massive headache that had me popping Advil like candy and when I stopped talking and tried to start again I couldn't. Not from lack of trying, more from vocal chords that said "enough" and refused to cooperate further.
When I arrived home my poor husband was sure I had been assaulted somewhere along the way not realizing that I had willingly signed up for the ass-whooping and the other two looked as bad as me! What a great time!!! And that brings me to today, sitting in the airport getting ready to meet up with my girls again.
They say with age comes wisdom and I'm here to say AMEN to that. We are way smarter this time...no more 3 days together, this time we are spending almost a week together with the intention of getting at least 4 hours of sleep every night and maybe some spa time with cool cucumber presses to erase the bags and black under-eye circles before we get home. All bets are off with the wine though, no promises there!
From Boston we will be heading to Cape Cod and then over to Martha's Vineyard. Pics to follow as well as stories from the road trip...I'm quite sure there will be many colorful moments and I can't wait to see what I look like on the way home after a whole week with these two, good times!
2 comments:
Have a wonderful time with your friends! I haven't seen you for a while here either! I am missing seeing your beautiful face, red rimmed black eyes or not!
I also remember your true colors in Nepal! They also were all over your face! Haha! But...very pretty colors I must say!
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