Girls Weekend Away

This weekend the Girls and I went away (minus Miriam, although she was able to meet us for dinner on Friday night at least). Our last weekend away (my only other time away) was back in August of 2005, when we all went to the Women of Faith Conference in Portland, Oregon for a weekend.

So it was high time for us to get away again! We started locally, at a spa! Anita and I had pedicures (first one ever for me and it was lovely!); Alexa was in the same room as us having a manicure done

Then we went out for dinner together. Alexa is currently hosting a Chinese Student (Katie) and a Chinese Teacher, from the same group that Jade and Sara are with... and this happened to be the first weekend Cindy (the teacher) was with Alexa, so we included her in our weekend away. She is a sweetie, has very good English... we quite enjoyed her company!

So late nights it was... but I was able to sleep all night long with no children waking me up nor insomnia bothering me both nights! Phew! Just the cat outside the house next door meowed a bit much for all of our liking a wee bit early... oh well.

On Saturday we went to Granville Island, took the little "mini cruise" (seabus) around False Creek stopping in between at Yaletown for lunch at Urban Fair (see Alexa's blog for more info about that!!). Here are three of us on the 'ferry':

Alexa, Cindy and Anita

Then we went to Robson Street for some shopping and dinner... finally making it back to our suite (Anita's Aunt and Uncle have a suite in which they rent out for shorter term stays... it was perfect! Thanks for arranging that for us!) by 9:00pm for scrapbooking/crafting!! It was great!
Here is a picture of Alexa, who's birthday it is today actually... and I. We are both prego! I am 33 weeks here and she is... about 6 weeks behind me, right? So making her about 27 weeks along. (you can tell me if I am calculating wrong)
Again, see ALEXA's blog for some more commentary on our weekend and a few different photos.
Thanks, girls, for a great time away! Jason says we should do this more often (!!!), but I know with new baby's arriving soon...etc, the soonest we calculated another Girl's weekend away is August 2008. That's okay... let the countdown begin!
Cheers!

My Cousin, Amy, the Bride-to-Be

Last night we had Amy's stagette... Amy is my cousin, and I am one of her Bridesmaids! We've had to alter my dress a whole lot since I am pregnant and the dress was purchased last summer... but it has worked out great and in 2 weeks, it should be a very fun, memorable day for Amy and Dan! Elijah is the Ring Bear too!
We had a great time last night. Amy was very cooperative! We had a sign on her back that said "Kisses for 50 cents, Honeymoon Fundraiser"... her purse was full of chocolate Hershey Kisses. She made $28 bucks last night and our deal was she was going to be able to purchase something for her honeymooon at LaSenza before the night ended... she did!During dinner she paraded around Earl's a few times and introduced different families/couples to her fiance (his picture was on a stick, an enlarged one of his face)... Amy was a GREAT sport and very outgoing in doing this.
Check below, for again another slide show, of last night's activities.

(Alexa, this www.slide.com is free, you don't need to sign up either. and it doesn't take long at all. Check it out!)