This is my official Girls' Weekend 2010 review.
GW2k10 kicked off mid-afternoon with the arrival of my other half, Lauren. We sat around my apartment and caught up while I dried my hair and put on make-up (for obvious reasons I prioritized watching gLee mid-afternoon over a much-needed shower). It's funny how after nearly 5 years, we never skip a beat. When we went shopping around downtown, we would both disappear momentarily to put on something ridiculous, only to surprise the other wearing the exact same thing. Within hours, people were mixing up our names, and all was suddenly right in the world. The jokes were the same, the mannerisms the same, the clothes--mercifully-- still the same size (we have a time-enduring habit of wearing each other's clothes)... and that is to say that she and I are the same size, sadly not that we wear the same size we did in the "good ol' days."
Anna arrived next to the sight of Lauren and I underneath mountains of clothes. Picking out the perfect outfit for the first night of Girls' Weekend is hard work, people. Anna jumped in the mix, and by the time Alice arrived we were in the middle of a full-blown fashion show... so she, of course, then modeled all of her wardrobe options. Anna and I both rocked out cowboy boots (Anna's one wardrobe requirement), I wore a dress Lauren brought and she picked a dress out of my closet, and Alice was the only one brave enough to sport heels (although, if I had those perfect dancer's legs, I could probably make a little sacrifice as well).
Friday night, we dined at my favorite restaurant: Cypress Inn. Scallops and cheese grits and fried green tomatoes. In the words of Michelle Tanner, "Whoa, baby." And don't worry about those calories: our next stop was the dance club. We danced the night away to all our favorite trashy rap songs and arrived back at home around... 4 am. But, hey, girls' weekend only comes around once a year.
We started the day off with pancakes and Fashion Show 2.0. When we made it to campus, we met up with friends to watch the Auburn game. This was the tough part. You would think thousands of Arkansas fans had poured onto campus. I was cheering for my team in a hostile environment; although, Anna's hawk-eyes spotted another hand go up after we scored (after 60+ points, who knows which touchdown it was??), and we had a little something the Auburn family calls a "Family Reunion" right there on the strip in Tuscaloosa. It was hard to suppress a grin as we watched so many Bama fans' hopes dashed. I'm not a trash talker. Ever. Not even at the Iron Bowl. But after that experience, I will make my one trash talking statement here on my blog, where only my opinion matters:
Auburn > Kentucky > South Carolina > Alabama. You do the math.
After a very satisfactory Tiger win, we walked around campus and took in the Homecoming spectacles. We took pictures all over campus, from street signs to Homecoming floats, and finally landed in a bar to watch the Bama game. Somewhere mid-second quarter, our tired eyes were burning and our eyelids drooping. A unanimous vote decided that we could watch the rest of the game at my house, so we came home and finished our evening with snacks and pajamas and football.
Today we slept late. Then we laid around and gossiped before getting dressed. Alice was the first to go, and we decided mid-group hug to have annuals girls' weekend (possibly with a choreographed dance that we forgot to make up last night). Anna, Lauren, and I capped off our culinary adventures at Mugshots before Anna headed out. After lunch, I laid on my couch and looked at the ceiling while I talked to Lauren about grad school, moving to Europe, and being single. It was very Freud-like, and I know my advisor would be proud of me for noticing that.
After Lauren left, I slept. And I slept. And I slept. I missed phone calls and text messages, and I didn't clean up or do homework. I just slept and slept. And in about an hour, I'm going to sleep some more. Because that's how exhausting Girls' Weekend 2010 was... Scratch that: that's how incredibly awesome and perfectly perfect Girls' Weekend 2010 was.
Girls' Weekend 2011 planning begins... Now.
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