Girls Trip 2011

Well, my annual girls trip concluded today, wrapping up our 8th year of getting together sans husbands/kids/responsibility! This year, we headed down to Ocean Reef in Key Largo, Florida. You can go here to see what it's like there. Melissa's dad has a friend who is a member at the Reef, so he gave us a nice little hookup. It was AMAZING.

To recap, our previous girls trips have been:

2004: Perdido Key, Florida

2005: Amelia Island, Florida

2006: Homestead, Florida

2007: Fowl Cay, Exumas, Bahamas (the Munz's private island)

2008: Homestead, Florida

2009: Fowl Cay, Exumas, Bahamas

2010: Kaneohe, Hawaii

2011: Ocean Reef, Key Largo, Florida

Not too shabby, you think??? Yes, we realize we are spoiled rotten.

Melissa, Ashley and I flew to Miami on Wednesday afternoon, and we went straight to the Munz compound. Melissa brought 2 of her kiddos with her, for her mom to watch while we were in the Keys. We (well, Ashley and I) managed to sleep in until nearly 9:15...had a lazy morning and then before lunch we headed to the Reef.

Craig (the man who arranged everything for us while we were down in the Keys) got a house for us along with a golf cart for cruising the streets of the Reef. We spend the better part of Thursday afternoon exploring the place on our golf cart. We went out for dinner at a yummy restaurant on the bay side, and then spent the remainder of the evening at our house.

We spent the better part of Friday and Saturday at the pool, reading, relaxing, laughing, eating, lots and lots of laughing (let me just say that being 32 weeks pregnant and laughing extremely hard can cause some problems...). It was one of our more relaxing girls trips, and it was just what we needed. 

What a blessing it is to have such great friends. We haven't been together all 3 of us since May 2010, and it's like we were never apart. And what great parents/husbands we have that are willing to let us jet off every year and leave the kiddos behind while we live a few days of luxury!

Side note: if you need a good laugh, please go to these 2 videos: CathyMay15 and Ed Bassmaster. We spent quite a bit of time watching these 2 videos, which contributed a lot to our laughing fits.