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Girlfriend Getaways

5/1/2016

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     ... are the best! There's something about spending extended time with good friends that is simply good for a woman's soul. Of course, it helps if you have exceptional friends like I do!
     I just recently returned from a midweek mini-vacation spent with "the Game Girls," a group of women I've been hanging out with for many years. Once a month we get together for lunch at someone's house and then spend the afternoon playing games. This can range from card games to word games, the two newest favorites being Farkle and a card game called Golf Ten.
     We soon realized that we needed to enjoy more of a good thing and so started doing a yearly weekend getaway in April, which we dubbed "Enchanted April," naming it after that classic chick flick with Josie Lawrence and Joan Plowright. We've been doing this for about ten years now and we've been to a lot of wonderful places: Whidbey Island, Portland Oregon, and Granville Island in Vancouver, to name a few. We even took a weekend cruise from Seattle to Victoria one year. This year we were on the Oregon Coast. For the most part the weather cooperated, but even if it hadn't we'd have had a great time. (You don't need good weather to stay up until two in the morning laughing and playing games.)
     We have several gourmet cooks in our group so the food was spectacular. And the treats were, too. Trader Joe's dark chocolate caramels - oh, chocolate heaven.
     But really, the best part of the trip was being able to share our joys and troubles, to be able to be ourselves and know that whether we were at our best or worst we were still loved. Because we've long since gone from friendship to sisterhood.
     How about you? Do you have a special group of friends you hang out with? I hope so, because I'm convinced that friends are one of God's greatest blessings.
27 Comments
Lori Ragalis
5/3/2016 07:21:04 am

love this site. the pictures are so pretty......I am on the East coast so it is nice to see

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Jess
5/3/2016 07:26:45 am

I have a great group of friends at church. We all have little ones and it's so important to have fellow mamas to laugh and cry with!

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Patricia Wagner
5/3/2016 07:56:29 am

There are 8 of us girlfriends who have been friends since high school. That was the 70's. We get together throughout the year when one of us has a birthday. We also have a Christmas get together.

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Cindy Munkelt
5/3/2016 08:06:13 am

Sounds like a grand time.

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Jeannie D.
5/3/2016 09:09:26 am

Sounds like so much fun, and beautiful scene to top it all off.

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Gail Hollingsworth
5/3/2016 09:58:20 am

I love the beach! If this is the comments to win the towel, today is my birthday, wink wink!

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Marla
5/3/2016 10:11:32 am

I have a few good friends as I believe it's more about the quality of our friendship than quantity and not being close. One of my good friends is from jr. high that I hang out with. In the summer, I also love being at either of my two pools because that's where a lot of my friends from my development hang out. We'll swim, meet for dinner or just walking around the area. I have to mention about hanging out with my parents. I'm very lucky to have them very nearby and in my life. :)

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Linda Moore
5/3/2016 10:20:50 am

Thirty-two years ago, I met a group of ladies at a fitness class and we have been friends ever since. We get together once a week for breakfast. There are 19 of us and we call our weekly breakfasts 'Cheaper than Therapy'. I am so blessed to have these ladies in my life!

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Dona Kutska
5/3/2016 10:39:48 am

Fun! And I'd love the beach towel!

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Catherine Maguire
5/3/2016 10:43:29 am

You have a great group of friends. Love the pictures.

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Amber Cooper
5/3/2016 10:53:13 am

Sounds like an amazing time. I would love to go to the Oregon coast, I've been to the state but never to the coast. At this time in my life I don't have a special group of friends to do things with but there is still always time.

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Connie Edgington
5/3/2016 11:18:13 am

My favorite to do is go with my sister to Florida when we visit with our folks. Walks on the beach shopping and great family time.

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Brenda Bary
5/3/2016 11:39:56 am

Sounds like a wonderful time!

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Catrina Tolley
5/3/2016 11:44:44 am

Looks like you had a good time. Getting away with girlfriends is always a nice and peaceful time. Thanks for sharing your vacation with us.

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Doris Lankford
5/3/2016 12:01:27 pm

It sounds like you had a great time. The pictures were beautiful. I have one good friend that I worked with for several years that I still get together with at least every couple of months. We don't do much but it sure is nice just to be yourself with someone who won't judge you.

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Catherine Coyne
5/3/2016 12:11:19 pm

That sounds wonderful.. I am so glad that you have a such a great group of friends.

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Mary
5/3/2016 12:25:04 pm

I do have a handful of dear friends! But for that core, solid lifelong sisterhood ... well, that would be my actual sisters and my daughters.

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Melanie Guevara
5/3/2016 12:49:58 pm

Looks like fun & relaxing. I love the seahorse towel.

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Jacki Lottes Webber
5/3/2016 01:41:18 pm

Thanks for sharing your friends!

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Ellen Moore link
5/3/2016 01:56:27 pm

would love to have a Beach towl from your Vacation & thank you for the chance to win one

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Cheryl Riecke
5/3/2016 03:55:02 pm

What a special time with friends! We try and get together every tweet months for lunch.

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Linda Herold
5/3/2016 04:49:31 pm

We visited the Oregon coast about 5 years ago! It' great! We live in Northern CA! Love the post and the nice photos you shared!!

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Ann
5/3/2016 05:04:58 pm

Such a pretty towel! I would love to give it to my sister-in-law Nora who is in love with Dauphin Island in Mobile,AL.

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Mary M
5/3/2016 06:06:16 pm

Looks like you had a wonderful trip. I love the Beach 🐚🐚🐚

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denise
5/3/2016 06:58:54 pm

went on a girlfriends' weekend in SC last month--so much fun! Glad you had a wonderful time.

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Virginia Lloyd
5/3/2016 07:34:39 pm

Oh how delightful to have friends to do things with! Through the years of my husband pastor ing, I tended not to have close friends of the church group. That plus having 6 kids and taking extra courses kept me busy. Just recently I did step out of my comfort zone and joined a group of women who remembered me from before we moved away but I had to ask a few their names! We enjoyed a dinner theatre at our local university. I really had a good time. For all my mouth, I am really rather bashful. Lol. Have to really believe strongly to open up!

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Penny link
5/6/2016 01:58:45 am

I need something like this so much.

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