I just spent the most wonderful weekend in Galena, IL with seven classmates from high school! Yep, that's me second from the left! We rented a condo together in the Eagle Ridge Resort neighborhood (great for families if you're looking for a fun getaway!!) We all brought coolers full of indulgences, ie; beer, wine, cheesecake, seven-layer bars, chocolate orgasm-like bars, frozen daiquiri makings, and lots of other munchies that are really bad for us and we ate them all up with passion! HUGE passion.My girlfriends from high school are the coolest bunch of women on the planet! Can't share what all we did during the weekend, let's just say it was a BLAST and that what happens in Galena, stays in Galena!
I came home with a new appreciation for long-term friendships. These gals have known me since I was about 4 yrs old in some cases, and others for at least 35-40 years now! There are very few secrets among us all and we shared sooooo many good times as we grew up, experienced the teen years together, and became mothers. I cherish these friendships more than ever before. I LOVE YOU SOWODS!!!!!
When I returned home I was exhausted and tried to take a nap on my daughter's bed. Here are just a few of the lines she shared with me as I lay resting and trying to catch a quick nap, "I can pull the skin down over my knee with my toes, mom, look" and "decorating with duct tape is fun, have you ever tried it? you should mom!" and "my legs are longer than your legs, hey let's measure them together and check it out again" and "smell this, it smells like a hamster cage mom" (a cedar storage trinket box), and "I wonder if hamsters think about who their siblings are?" and "have you always had these?" (pointing to the freckles on my arm). Suffice it to say, I did not get a catnap taken, bless her heart. I pulled my lazy self back up out of the bed and headed to the kitchen to re-live the weekend and made myself a cold strawberry daiquiri.
Headed out to the patio to find hubby and son making dinner!! Wonderful end to a super weekend! They made grilled Iowa ribeye steaks and grilled zucchini/vegetable fritters with salsa - they are great guys!
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Those SOWODs haven't aged one single bit!!!! Wine and Seven Layer Bars - that's quite a combo - how much heartburn medication did you all have to take??
Wish my husband cooked, but I shouldn't complain because I often come home to find the trash taken out, the recycling delivered, the lawn mowed, and some other heavy duty chore all wrapped up. Not to mention he takes care of the bills and the taxes.
Fun!! That picture reminds me of the 1982 Homecoming Court! Sounds like you had a wonderful time! Did you get any of that fabulous popcorn they sell there?
Let it be known that all the people I graduated with are super human beings! I got to see many of them again at last summer's class reunion, and I felt like the room was filled with 65 great friends. Janban is one of those that I've gotten to know a lot better over the last year and count her as a new and an old friend, and her husband came with the deal! Let me know when next you're in town Janban!
Looking goooood! I recognize a few of the faces but most of the names escape me.
Sadly, I can't put a name to ANY of them, which is pathetic since I definitely knew all of you!
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