Hola peeps! I have returned from the land of the sun despite wagers otherwise! My trip was absolutely awesome and quite frankly was my best trip back yet!
After arriving mid-afternoon Friday Beaker-Luv and I hit Kohl's for some shopping and then went out for some oysters where Rixy met up with us. After dinner we headed home, gossiped like high schoolers and then it was up and at 'em early to meet Harold over on the Cross-Seminole Trail for a quick 10 miler. We had a beautiful morning, 46* and sunny, and I enjoyed every single step! Lots of run-nerding out and me trying to describe to Harold just how awesome it is not having to worry about ice and snow or being all bundled up for a change!
After arriving mid-afternoon Friday Beaker-Luv and I hit Kohl's for some shopping and then went out for some oysters where Rixy met up with us. After dinner we headed home, gossiped like high schoolers and then it was up and at 'em early to meet Harold over on the Cross-Seminole Trail for a quick 10 miler. We had a beautiful morning, 46* and sunny, and I enjoyed every single step! Lots of run-nerding out and me trying to describe to Harold just how awesome it is not having to worry about ice and snow or being all bundled up for a change!
Blue skies, sunshine, palm trees & a running frenemy for the win!!!After the run we found Rixy fresh from her long walk and grabbed some breakfast. It was a comical moment in our friendship, as it was the first time the three of us were grabbing breakfast together without being hungover! LOL! All too soon we parted ways with our beloved Rah-rah and it was on to the next activity of the day: pedicure's! I was so excited to get a pedicure as Beaker and I figured it out had probably been well over a year since my last one because I haven't had all my toenails since then. LOL! After pedicure's we did a little shopping and then before we knew it, it was time to get all gussied up for the "Girls, Not so Christmas, Dinner" formerly known as the Girls Christmas Dinner. This is a yearly tradition of ours but since I wasn't around for Christmas they put it off til my trip! YAY!!!
I love these girls so effing much!!!After dinner we all headed over to my favorite country line dancing bar Cowboys, where the boys met up with us and we boot-scoot-boogied the night away, enjoyed copious adult beverages on the cheap, and basically had a friendship love fest with each other. I don't think I stopped smiling once!
Run Nerds: Lazy Runner, Red & B.o.B - Reunited and it feels so good!!!Sunday was a lazy day spent playing with my babies; RJ, Maya and Lily! Rach drove up from W. Palm for the day and I finally got to meet Miss Lily and see RJ and Maya play together. It was the perfect end to a perfect trip.
Above: Beaker-Luv & RJ / Below: Lily, Rach & Maya
And just like that... it was Monday and time to head back to reality. We picked up some Chick-fil-a so I could enjoy some glorious chick-n-mini's, stopped off at Track Shack so I could pick up a few things my local running store fails to carry and then it was off to the airport to await my flight. I was so very sad to leave after such a perfect weekend but I was also missing Spike like crazy and was happy to be back in his arms again and to find these on the table:
Spike has always, always, had flowers waiting for me when he's picked me up at the airport but this time I drove myself as he was out of town... but he didn't let that stop his tradition! I love him so much! Huge shout out of thanks to Harold for trekking over for the run Saturday morning, to my West Coast B*tches Rixy and B.o.B for trekking over from the coast to hang out, to all the girls for meeting up Saturday night, to Rach for packing up those girls and trekking up from down south to spend the day with me, to Beaker-Luv for absolutely everything (she takes such good care of me) and finally to Spike for making it all possible! Love you all so very, very, VERY much and I appreciate you all for coming out and making this the best trip ever!!!
28 comments:
I love, love, LOVE that you get flowers on your return from the airport. That's so romantic!
Val
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:) spike is such a sweetie!
I love cowboys we used to go there all the time. Before I started running and had to be to bed early on Friday nights. Did u go to lee and ricks for oysters? Now u have me craving them. Glad u had fun. The weathers been really nice lately.
You have such a sweetie! :)
gosh that sunshine looks SO nice. Its been so dreary here. Is it Spring time yet??
Those flowers! Swooooooon.
Glad you had fun!
Sounds like a fantastic trip Red! So jealous =)
The flowers are beautiful! You've got yourself a keeper!
I'm counting down till I can get back to my Sunshine State as well. Less than 2 weeks now!
Spike sure knows how to romance his girl. ;) Great pics! :)
Warm weather and good friends. What could be better?
Sounds like the best. trip. ever. Glad you had an excellent long weekend!
Must have been glorious to run in the warm weather without any snow!! Glad you had such a fun trip!
Enjoy the snow. I'm going to enjoy a run in the 70 degree temps :D
Beautiful!! What a great time!!
sounds like an incredible weekend! glad you had so much fun and were able to escape the Michigan cold for a few days!
Love you so much and I still can't stop talking about what a perfect weekend it was!!! Thanks Spike, take good care of my girl and send her back here anytime! (You are requested as well).
***And dang it I can't remember my username and password***
You have some great friends!
I wish my husband would take some notes from Spike. Sigh....
Glad you had a good time.
Looks like a great trip. Love the flowers! what a sweet guy!
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flowers. seriously a top three of my fav surprises.
awesome.
The flowers are perfect. In fact, Spike sounds perfect.
I'm glad you had a great weekend!!
It is sooo cute that he gets you flowers when you come home!! Sounds like an awesome visit!
i super duper heart chick-n-minis.
Such an awesome weekend!!! But also awesome to go home to your extremely thoughtful bf, Spike! He is awesome!
PS - cowboys is hilarious! i think i spent my entire freshman year going to cowboys! memories! :-)
I don't think I'm cool enough to be your friend. You have way more energy than me, and I'm supposed to be the spry young one... Glad you had fun but boo on Schmoopy for being MIA upon returning to the Mitten.
SO glad you had so much fun! I'm sure you miss the Sunshine state, but at least you make it back regularly to visit your faves ;)
And wow, that flower tradition is setting the bar high. Go, Spike!
Sounds like you had a good time in the warm weather. Hopefully you have that out of your system because it is going to be COLD next weekend!
Tell Spike nice work on the flowers. He sounds like a keeper.
glad you had such a great visit :)
What a romantic with the flowers! And of course he picked yet another GORGEOUS arrangement. Swoon!
Glad you had an awesome time in FL!!
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