I spent the weekend in Orange County with Kirs...what a great weekend...we shopped and ate, and watched chick flicks and just enjoyed reconnecting...it had been WAY too long since we had spent any time alone together...since our Hawaii trip in 07!
We arrived in OC about 5pm. We both hit traffic, for me, it took 2 1/2 hours to drive the 45 miles or so...I checked into the hotel for us and just relaxed and read a magazine until she arrived...then we cracked open a bottle of wine for some happy hour chillaxin' and decided to hit the mall for some quick shopping and dinner.
We settled on a little Italian restaurant for some shared pasta and pizza (and more wine) and then but we weren't ready to head back yet so we stopped at TGIFridays for $4.00 Grey Goose Cosmos (what a deal!)
then we headed back to the hotel to settle in for an in room movie and watched and cried our way through "Marley and Me". :-)
Saturday: We ordered room service for breakfast and headed down to the Irvine Spectrum to shop the day away...and shop we did!
I found lots of bargains and was very restrained for me (my lack of funds did help!) and still managed to buy three cardigans, some really cute jewlery, a gel skin for my iPhone and new shoes for under $100...
I forgot how tiring shopping can be..it's been so long since I've shopped! Our feet were tired!!!
(yes, that's some of our loot spread out on the bed in the background!)..we freshened up and had a little happy hour, then headed to Roy's for dinner...LOVE that restaurant...
We told them we were celebrating our Anniversary...and it is, this year, the 30th anniversary of knowing each other...I can't believe I've spent more of my life knowing her than not...it's trippy to think about things in terms like that. We stayed up late just talking about life....
Sunday: We slept in till 10am (!) and leisurely packed up and headed down to breakfast...we checked out of the hotel at noon and headed to the theaters at the mall across the street to go see My Sister's Keeper...ooohh..what a tear jerker! We hit the road about 4pm and it took me another 2 1/2 hours to get home...sheesh..stupid LA traffic. What a great weekend...totally what I needed to recharge my soul...I love this girl..
Thanks Kirs...for being the bestest Bud a girl could ever have...I {puffy heart} you!!