Poconos Recap

Well, I'm trying to update the blog from the one place in the townhouse where I sometimes sort-of kind-of get internet, so I am curious as to how long this will take me to do. Let's hope for the best.

As predicted, the Poconos was an absolute blast!! We seriously had so much fun. I started the trip at DIA with a three hour flight delay for winds in Chicago. Seriously?! So I sat. And read an entire book. It was great. But once I got into Newark after 9pm, I was so stoked to see Noelle, my grandbig. It felt so good to see her. So we fought people to get to my luggage and we got on the road! After a long, windy, dark drive through the Poconos and the gorillas in the mist environment (highly foggy), we eventually found Chrissy in the cabin. It was in a very woody, Blair Witch like area so quite frankly we were very impressed that Chrissy was there alone and not huddled in the corner crying. So we chilled that night and just relaxed. It felt so good to be back with those girls.

Friday morning we got up early and it was still just the three of us, as everyone else was working and traveling. We found a fabulous little hole in the wall place for breakfast- those are the best kinds- and then found a Wegman's 40 miles awak on Noelle's GPS. So we took off for nearby Wilkes-Barre to hit up the grocery store, liquor store, and Starbucks. It was a great way to kill the afternoon and we laughed so much. Then we headed back home and the others started showing up. Rayray and Christina Manz rolled in around 8 or so and we fixed stuffed shells and salads and stuff for dinner, and drank a LOT of wine. Eventually Ang and Becky showed up around 11pm and the whole party was there!

Saturday we literally did nothing. We laid around, played games, spent time in the hot tub, ate a LOT, and played this icebreaker game that Chrissy put together that was lotws of Q&A catching up type stuff. It was a blast, I loved just chilling with everybody. The original plan was to go out for dinner that night but we were all tired and lazy and didn't feel like climbing out of sweats and PJ's, so we wound up just picking up a pizza and chillin. Drank lots of beer and then late night we decided to watch "The Sixth Sense", one of those movies that no matter how many times you watch it, still scares you, especially when you are in the middle of the woods as we were. We scared the shit out of ourselves and Noelle and I wound up sleeping on the couch together in the living room. Pathetic. Haha.

Oh. And we built a fire. In the living room. Without any help. We rock.

Now, I didn't take many pictures at all, so I had very few decent ones to pick from. What I've posted, thugh, are myself and my grandbig, Noelle, whom I miss majorly. She is a teacher in New Jersey where she lives with her fabulous husband Dave. We were several adult beverages in when this photo was taken, so it's not so beautiful. The other pic is the view out of the back door of the cabin through the wood with the snow andfrozen lake. We spent several hours of our time here in the hot tub. Beautiful!

The trip was a blast, even witht he screaming child two rows ahead of me the entire plane ride home, it was so worth it. I miss those girls like you wouldn't believe and a girls' weekend was exactly what I needed. :)