What a fabulous weekend! In late July, two of my old sorority sisters from college, Becky and Claire, reached out to see if I would be willing to help plan a long weekend getaway. We realized that our Zeta pledge class would all be turning this 40 this year, and since it's been way too long since we've gotten together, we needed an excuse to catch up. Thankfully Dad had an open weekend at the condo in mid-September, so we started to plan it. We hoped that 5 or 6 would be able to come. Turns out that 12 of us were able to get together! We were stoked!
I headed down on Wednesday evening and my old roommate, Tay, came down from Birmingham too. We met up at The Shrimp Basket for dinner. It was so wonderful to see her again! We enjoyed a great dinner and then headed to the condo. We surprised the cleaning lady who thought we were coming in the next day, but we didn't care; we just hung out by the pool while she finished up. We came back upstairs and stayed up talking until about 1:00 am. We miss each other so much, so this was a great start to our catch-up time!
On Thursday, Tay and I slept in a bit and then drove over to Pensacola to pick up Claire. We enjoyed lunch with her and catching up with her. Other friends started texting that they were driving down; we couldn't wait! The three of us ended up meeting Becky, Kate, Megan and Emily for dinner that evening and then staying up past midnight talking even more.
On Friday morning, this was the weather that greeted us. We packed it up and headed down to the beach. We found our own little spot and the gab-fest continued.
Later on in the day, Christy and Kristin G flew in from out of town, Kristin J drove over from Pensacola, and Celia and Caron drove in too. We all made it!!!
We got ready for dinner and figured out how to snap our picture beforehand.
I love these faces!
Selfie in the squeezed in elevator.
Enjoying our delicious dinner at Bill's By the Beach.
This picture makes me happy!
Kristin J had to drive back to Pensacola on Friday night to take care of her little one, but we were so very glad that she came over for a few hours. On Saturday morning we had to say goodbye to Kate who needed to get back to Huntsville, but then the rest of us went back down to the beach. This picture shows what we did pretty much the entire day. Lazy bums who never stopped talking. It was fantastic. We ordered dinner in to the condo and enjoyed one another's company.
On Sunday morning it was time for everyone to leave, but we needed to snap a few pictures first. Tay and I had to get ours together!
Some sweet friends that look almost exactly the same as when we came down for Tay's 21st birthday many just a few years ago!
Such an amazingly fantastic weekend with old friends. It was great to catch up and actually talk with one another instead of just seeing pictures on social media. I adore these ladies and wish we had more time together. I can't wait for next time!
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