As you may recall from an earlier post, I went on a ski trip this weekend. Sadly, the weather didn’t cooperate, so there wasn’t as much skiing involved as we had originally hoped. Regardless, we had a great time on our girls’ weekend away.
For a long time, many of my closest friends were all male. Particularly in law school, the people I hung out with on a day-to-day basis were guys. Since then, I have met more and more smart, interesting, creative, and funny women, and many of them have become very good friends. I am learning to treasure “girls’ nights” and “girls’ weekends” more and more each day. Our ski weekend was no exception. Starting on the car ride up, the four of us talked about our two favorite things — boys and food. Since three out of the four of us are currently in dating mode, we swapped potential setup ideas, sort of like trading baseball cards — “oh yes, I saw that one, but you might like him better — let’s swap! What have you got in your pile?” Then on to food — what we should and shouldn’t be eating, craving sweets versus craving salty snacks — followed, logically, by exercise — yoga, tennis, hiking, biking. And this was all before we even got there.
Once we arrived, we were greeted by less-than-stellar accommodations. We all agreed (did I mention that we are extremely smart?) to upgrade to the nicer hotel a little further up the mountain. You get to a point in your life where money can, on a small scale at least, buy happiness. For a little extra, we had a much nicer room and much more space (also important for four women getting ready to go out to dazzle the boys at après-ski).
Despite the lack of snow, but since we were in skiing mode, I was craving fondue (which I’ll be getting this weekend, just as a side note — here’s the one I’m making). Couldn’t find it anywhere, so I modified my quest to French onion soup. Clearly what I really wanted was just melted cheese (I’m the salty-snack-chick mentioned above), so it definitely did the trick. Here’s the result of my quest.
Thanks, ladies, for a relaxing and fun-filled weekend! You can find the pictures here.
* A tribute to Cyndi Lauper, and one of my all-time-favorite songs for karaoke.
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Did you ski the Mixing Bowl? That was the only “hill” I would ski. I’m sure you are a much more advanced skiier than I was. (I don’t think I even qualify as a “skiier”.) I prefer the fireplace in the lodge to the slopes.
I love onion soup.. kinda cheered me up that picture. I just can’t believe my ill luck. I met someone last saturday and a week later he tells me he cant get over his EX!! Im alwaqys meeting men with EXs issues!!! Gimme a break!! What’s bad, i was ready to fall for him 🙁
French onion soup taste great. I like it very much