posted Tuesday, 21 February 2006
Nancy and I had been planning a trip to "someplace warm" for the end of February. It was intended to be a celebration of the end of all my surgeries... Unfortunately, the complications I experienced in early Feb left me a bit skittish and thinking that a trip to a 3rd world country was probably not prudent at this time. So, we planned to wait for the e-savers to come out and take a spur-of-the-moment trip somewhere.
Thursday, the e-savers went out and we checked the weather report.... apparently, this weekend's weather everywhere stinks! In TX, it wsa 80 degrees on Friday and 40 degrees + raining all weekend... CA was similar.... so rather than spend money to fly somewhere with horrible weather, we figured we'd drive somewhere nearby. Of course, we hadn't considered that it was President's Day Weekend, so everything in the NE (VT, etc) was not only expensive... it was sold out.
Enter Bonny. Bonny found herself with a few days off from work and though of Mrs Duncan (mother of her best friend from high school, who owned a condo in Rehoboth Beach, DE). She rented us her beach-front condo and we loaded up the Rav 4 and took off for DE. We arrived on Sunday, did some grocery shopping and tapped into the 3 bottles of wine that we had brought. Around 7:30pm, we strolled down the boardwalk to Grotto's pizza and ordered some dinner. After a quick stop at the candy shop (for fudge), we headed back to the condo for an evening of singing, olympics, and CPR training on the blue lobster (ask Nancy for details!)
Monday was spent hitting the sales at the outlets... serious damage was done... good thing Bonny received excellent news about a new job and was able to spend without feeling badly (Nancy and I had little excuse for our lack of restraint). Monday night we had dinner out at a cute little restaurant.
Tuesday was met with another quick jaunt at the outlets before hitting the road.
Trips like this make me so thankful for my girlfriends. Growing up, I didn't have many (really only Katie & Tracy). I tended to run with the boys... playing sports, catching craw-dads and such... but over the past 10 years, I've realized that even tom-boys can have girlfriends... there are lots of girls out there who aren't "girly"... they are down to earth and totally real... and it's times like this (and the past 6 months) that I realize just how lucky I am to have my girls by my side.
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