West Coast Weekend

Just returned from working and weekend'ing on the west coast.

 It was incredible - great sights, food, wine, company, and the best -

Zero Humidity.

More pics to come...

Monday, Monday

Hi! I am home today celebrating our President's. Thank goodness. The weekend was so beyond fun that I am still exhausted today. And I think I slept 12 hours last night.

We had a blast! Can you imagine 13 girlfriends in one house at the beach?! As mentioned, this bride is fun. Tons of fun. She was the perfect bachelorette & totally rocked it all weekend.

We've made a pact that most pics would stay within the group. Don't worry we were well behaved, it's just ...what happens in Folly, stays in Folly.

Here are a few just to recap the perfect weekend.

Notice how the pics get blurry as the night goes on....oops.

Wild Women's Weekend.

Happy Friday!

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I'm escaping with the best friends for a fun bachelorette weekend in Folly Beach celebrating one of our dearest friends. Let me tell you, she is f.u.n.

Party Marti, can't wait to celebrate you!!

Is it noon yet?

NYC in November

Hi. I am back from my 5 night adventure. Started in Memphis for work and finished in NYC for a girls getaway with the mom, sis, aunt & cuz. I am tired. The 4am wake up call for a 6am flight on a Monday morning = torture. What was I thinking right? Live & learn.

Anyways, we had a blast. Girls are fun. Family trips are even more fun.

The weather was perfect, sunny & breezy, and we didn't have an agenda. That's the great thing about having a sis that lives there and getting to visit often. I feel like I can go & pretend to be a local and not have to do 1,000 touristy things. My sister would digress. If I heard it once I heard it a 1,000 times "your such a tourist" "walk this way" "do it this way". Gotta love the sisterly love. As our mom reminded us, I'm used to bossing her my whole life & now she has a little yankee in her and stands her ground!

So moving right along...the mom's stayed at the gorgeous, old fashion Waldorf

and the cousins stayed at the sister's apartment...what a beaut.

We dined here, here, & here - clearly we have a thing for Italian.

And brunched here, which was pure perfection. I knew I would love the place which is tucked in a little back alley & greeted by these awesome blue doors.

We drank. We went the Rye House and it was fun to reminisce on our NYU summer living...oh the memories made at Union Square.

I also made an appearance got drug to Bowery Electric & was by far the oldest person there. I must admit it was really fun....and I must admit that I awkwardly stood in the corner like a fugly 6th grader at her first dance. I couldn't get going with my dance moves - must of been the 'age'. However, after this weekend I am obsessed with this song. How bizarre is that video?

What else did we do? Of course we shopped. Oh, I kindly drug them to the flea market again and it was a bust. Well, I got 2 more of my vintage plates...yes, they were still there from August & he still claimed they were some fancy french something.

We also shopped at the Holiday Market  in Union Square. It was awesome. Well worth checking out if you're making the trek soon. Imagine vendor after vendor selling everything from ornaments to jewelry to art to spices? You name it, it was there. I bought an ornament {a tradition jh & i started} and by Sunday it was shattered to pieces in my purse. Great.

Lastly, we re-vamped / re-vitalized / re-birthed the sister's digs. Let's just say we went from the before above to this....

Details & more pics in another post.

Sadly we missed Occupy Wall Street. And Chelsea Market & a run on the Hudson River. But can you ever do it all?

Alright, enough said. I'm half-eyed & four-eyed - i left my contacts, debit card, & watch in nyc...one day I will learn.

Hope you had a great, fun, entertaining weekend!

*Oh and I must admit for those curious, I really missed little Finn.

A {Grateful} Getaway

Hey friends. Hope you are having a good week. We returned late Monday night from an island wedding weekend & I played catch up at the j-o-b all day yesterday.

We were in St. Thomas, USVI celebrating one of my favorite people...Godsis! She is my godparents daughter {self explanatory, eh?} and we are 364 days a part in age & very close. She is a flight attendant & married a Pilot....fitting right? Both of which said they would never marry the opposite.

{view of paradise from our room}

It was such a special, fun weekend.

There was a slight mishap...my wonderful Godparents were robbed & held at gunpoint in the gated house they rented. Horrible. Luckily, they are safe & alive and only material {replaceable} things taken, but we are so fortunate they were ok and grateful they are alive, hence the post title.

Here they are looking gorgeous, happy, blessed, and content.

It was a perfect wedding and everything was absolutely gorgeous. Love you Godsista & thank you for letting us share in ya'lls special day!

Casey & the Caribbean

Word on the street is Casey Anthony is in the Caribbean...Jost Van Dyke to be exact. A favorite spot to JH and I. We honeymooned in St. John and loved our day trip to Jost so much that we went back to the tiny getaway for our anniversary last year.

{this was the morning view from our villa at White Bay. Photo courtesy of jvd.com}

Check out the article here.

She is supposedly staying at The Sandcastle Inn which is home to the famous Soggy Dollar Bar & known for the tasty drink the PainKiller. Maybe one of the sketchy locals will give her a painkiller of different sorts. 

Even more interested or stalker-ish like me, check out the Soggy Dollar webcam and see if you spot the tot mom killer!

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Speaking of the Caribbean, we are off to the Turks and Caicos tomorrow with some dear friends. As my parents say, Oh the life of Dinks {double income no kids}. We have heard fabulous things and supposedly the snorkeling in Grace Bay is unbelievable.

I'll be back Monday feeling recharged & refreshed. Hope you have a great week! 

Vacation

I am signing off.

We are off to the beach for our annual "Cabinet Trip"

4 families in 1 house for 26 years.

Yep, the tradition is still going strong.

The group now includes spouses & significant others, so that brings us to 25 peeps total.

Thankfully we got smart and this year we have an adult house & children house.

I can't wait!

Hope everyone has a fantastic rest of the week!