Girls Weekend Journal

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 Kathi writes: We had a full day planned today, which meant that Lori set an alarm, which is something we rarely do. Although neither of us was particularly enthusiastic about getting out of bed at 7am, we eventually managed it. The Keurig was acting crazy, but we coaxed a couple of cups of coffee out of it. Lori showered and dressed while I settled onto the living room couch to finish Sunday's journaling, then it was my turn to get ready. At about 8:45 we left to meet our friend Megan Groh for breakfast at outro NYC. We LOVE the story of how we met Megan! During our 2022 Girls Weekend in Delaware, we were touring the Hagley Museum, where the original DuPont gunpowder mills were located. We struck up a conversation with a young woman who was also touring the museum, and after chatting for a while, invited her to join us for an escape room we had booked for that evening. She accepted, and Megan became our newest Girls Weekend friend! She was a terrific addit...

Girls Weekend 2026 New York City Monday, October 12 Lori writes: We woke up to a beautiful day despite the weather forecast yesterday showing today to be another rainy day.  We are so often blessed by glorious weather on Girls Weekend and we are very grateful for that. The morning began, as so many Girls Weekend mornings do, as a slow morning filled with coffee, journaling and talk between two old friends.  No doorbell ringing, no smoke alarms this morning.  It was peaceful and pleasant. We finally got our bodies moving to shower and clean up and get ready for our day.  Today we are visiting the relatively new Arte Museum as well as meeting up with Kathi’s old friend Aisha, who has lived and worked here for decades.  We made ourselves sandwiches before leaving so we could have lunch on the go since we were going to have a pretty full day. We actually ate those sandwiches in the lobby of the museum before we began our walkthrough, so that we wouldn’t find ourselv...

Sunday, October 11, 2026 (Kathi writing) Our day started considerably earlier than planned when at 4:30 a.m. we were awakened by the doorbell ringing over and over. This house has what I call a “city doorbell” very much like my old apartment in Chicago. It’s not a gentle ding dong, it’s more like a chime that turns into a buzzer. It screams for as long as you hold your finger on it. There are few things more alarming than being sound asleep in an unfamiliar house and suddenly hearing someone insistently ringing your doorbell in the middle of the night. It scared us both to death. I finally went to the door and discovered the young woman who rents the apartment upstairs standing there with her little dog in her arms. Apparently a drunk and/or very distressed friend of hers was outside leaning on the doorbell. She apologized profusely for the disturbance, and once everything quieted down we went back to bed.  Two hours later, the smoke detector went off. Good morning! At that point, ...

Girls Weekend 2026 New York City Saturday, October 10 Good morning!   (Lori’s day to write!) We woke up this morning around 7:30ish and made ourselves a cup of coffee in our single server Keurig machine.   After chatting some, I decided to take a shower so I could walk to the cute little coffee place (Milk and Pull) around the corner for a gourmet coffee and to check out the corner market in search of butter and some Rubbermaid or the like containers for our leftovers.   We have found ourselves in need of these every year on our trips and we forgot to look for some while at the AMAZING food market yesterday.   On my way to the coffee place, I noticed that the beautiful church I passed along the way was open.   We had noticed the church our first evening here because of the beautiful stained glass windows we could see from the street.   Since the doors were open I decided to step in and take a few photos. Turns out it is a Catholic church named Holy Rosary a...

Friday, October 9, 2026 We slept kind of late this morning—at least for us—and didn’t get up until after 8:00, then spent a couple of hours doing absolutely nothing productive. No laptops, googling, or writing. Just chatting, catching up, talking about what we might do today, changing our minds, and generally enjoying one of those gloriously unstructured Girls Weekend mornings we love so much. We finally started getting ourselves together around 10:00 and left the house at about 10:30 in search of coffee and breakfast. Jason (our host) had recommended a place called Milk & Pull, so that became our destination. Lori had a bagel and cream cheese and a mocha; I had a bagel with lox, cream cheese, capers and tomatoes, and a vanilla latte. The coffee was tasty but not hot enough - why is it so hard for fancy coffee to be served hot? We took our breakfast onto the train and headed for the New York Transit Museum, which is here in Brooklyn. What a GREAT place! We wandered and explored for...