Weekend Away

Time Out for Women came to Denver and we took advantage. We stayed at an old fashioned bed and breakfast, had pillow talk and enjoyed a spiritual high provided by the best speakers I've heard in a long time. The queens have arrived!

Friday: We started the weekend by getting pedicures. Mom had a contact malfunction during her Chinese leg rub and of course started us off...laughing! The one-eyed pirate drove us downtown where we ate Lunch at the Brown Palace. It was there that our love for the Mayo jar grew and quickly became part of our trip and a major inside joke. We walked up and down 16th street mall and shared a Pinkberry dessert. It was time to check in at Capitol Hill and have a "favorite things" swap. I'm on a favorite things kick right now- wink, wink. We took a cat nap and got ready for TOFW. Got great seats, listened, and learned. Then got serenaded by Dallyn Vail Bayless. Enough said.

Saturday: Woke up and got ready. Ate white chocolate graham cracker pancakes with bacon, fruit and juice. Packed lunch and headed over to TOFW. Amazing speakers with story after story. Did lots of mental journaling and shopping at Deseret Book store. Loved being in the middle of Gram and mom sharing little insights during the talks. Power outage. My favorite part. The speaker came to the middle of us and in pure darkness spoke with one flashlight that shone on her. Two thousand women were silent as she finished her talk. There was a great feeling that accompanied the day. As TOFW ended we decided on The Market for Dinner and inhaled our curry chicken sandwich and spring fling cake. More window shopping and back to the B&B for pillow talk and a movie in our room. The three of us fell fast asleep in the bed.

Sunday: Woke up so excited to see Justin and the boys. Got ready and ate an egg souffle, coffee cake and fruit with cranberry juice. Loaded up our stuff and drove home. Came home to hugs and cute signs on the door from the boys and a sparkly clean house from Justin. Journaled my weekend and went to church with the family.