How "Sex & The City" and a fun girls' trip makes all the difference
Sometimes, we need a moment to pause the hustle and bustle of life and just be women: feel sexy, feel confident, be gorgeous, laugh a lot, and enjoy the company of other like-minded women. The deal this weekend was to temporarily shed the daily labels - wife, mom, daughter, employee, doctor, teacher, accountant, event planner - and HAVE FUN. Mission accomplished.
My GAL pals and I planned a group trip to Chicago to see the new movie - Sex And The City. We started our treks Friday morning from Newark, Hartford, Philly and Washington Dulles airports and by 6pm had all landed into Chicago (despite the thunderstorms trying to keep us away).
FRIDAY
- Night out at Funky Buddha Lounge with ?uestlove of the Roots spinning
SATURDAY
- Home-cooked breakfast by the person who woke up first
- Walking in comfy shoes around Buckingham Fountain, and Grant & Millennium Parks
- Window shopping (okay maybe a lil' more than window) along Magnificent Mile
- Resting our feet while overlooking the city in the Hancock Observatory (including our silly, ANTM-inspired window washing shoot).
- Girls' lunch at TGI Fridays
- Home for a quick-change
- Appetizers at Lucky Strike
- MOVIE watching at AMC River East 21 (great theater). Thank goodness we pre-purchased!
SUNDAY
- Packing packing packing...
- Brunch cruise on Mystic Blue (complete with karaoke, the Electric Slide, and Mimosas!)
- A final toast... to bring our newfound serenity, relaxation, perspective, sense of fun, and SEXY-ness back to our real lives.
- Jetsettin' back home (thanks United, although you need more LEGROOM, take a tip from Jet Blue, won't ya?)
ONE LAST SHOT!
GALs... This trip was JUST what I needed to get me over the last piece of the rut. Are any of you ladies planning a gals' trip this summer? Do tell!
Stay tuned for the GAL tips I've been using since Memorial Day to kick off the summer the right way! We'll also have a new addition to the GAL blog soon. More info later.
Dr. Ty
From the GAL Blog
www.getalifecampaign.com
Labels: girls trip, movie, relaxation, sex and the city, vacation, womanhood, women
posted by #1 GAL, Dr. Ty! at
9:24 PM
3 Comments:
That looks like so much fun!
I'd love to plan something like that with my gal friends but it's hard for me to pull them from their kids, significant others long enough to do that! I will have to live vicariously through you...and maybe find some single girlfriends like myself!
It looks like you had a blast! Great photos! :)
Hi Ty,
It's Kareema. Me & 7 of my best girlfriends (from college) planned a girls trip during the July 4th extended weekend in Tennessee (where one of the friends lives). We've arranged to get professional photos taken, and hopefully will have just as Great a time as you all seemed to! Your blog made me even more excited about it (it is totally a much needed trip).
~K
Hey Cyn,
Two of us have kids and the other two have serious significant others. So, none of us are without heavy responsibility. Honestly, sometimes you just have to say, you know what? I need this. We all came back to piles of stuff to do, but for three days, we were free.
Kareema,
I hope you guys have a ball. Enjoy it! No drama, and don't worry about what's going on at home. Just be in the moment.
HUGS.
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