Girls Weekend Journal

The Blue Ridge Mountains from the Blue Ridge Parkway So, if you were really paying attention to yesterday's entry, then you should be asking yourself, "what about Kathi's luggage??  Did it every arrive?"  The answer, dear readers is NO!!  What the heck??  There was supposed to be a flight arriving in Asheville sometime last night with her luggage on it, but apparently that never happened.  Fortunately, Kathi did have SOME essentials in her carry on, but others she was sadly lacking.  For instance, she had contact lens case and solution and a toothbrush, but she did NOT have clean undies and socks or a change of clothes!  This is Girls Weekend, however, and we never let anything make us grumpy or set us back in any way, so Kathi sucked it up and made the best of it, bless her heart. We woke up this morning feeling pretty rested and knowing that Kathi's four sister-in-laws ( would be joining us today for a couple of days because they leave here in...

Girls Weekend Seventeen!!!  At long last, the magical week has once again arrived.  Girls Weekend.  Where Kathi and I both escape our everyday (though lovely) lives and go explore and learn about some place new to us here in the good old USA.  This year, we are exploring Asheville, North Carolina. Girls weekend started for me after work yesterday because I flew out of Portland at 10:15pm so that Kathi and I would arrive at the same time and have most of Thursday to begin our adventure.  On the way to Portland I got a phone call from the airline telling me that my flight out of Charlotte to Greenville, SC has been rescheduled to a later time due to bad weather at the point of origin of that flight.  The delay was only a half hour or so, so I didn't think that much about it, but once I got to the Portland airport I texted Kathi to let her know that I would probably be arriving in Greenville a little later than originally scheduled due to this delay. ...