Girls Weekend Journal

Last full day of our Richmond, Virginia Girls Weekend adventure.  Sigh.  It always comes too fast. Once again, as always with our trips, we have thoroughly enjoyed our stay here and have seen and experienced many things that this charming and historical city has to offer.  Museums, cemeteries, Segway rides, and wonderful dining and shopping experiences.  Girls weekend is the best!!  Today after our morning rituals, Kathi uses her Uber app to get us a ride to the Edgar Allan Poe museum.  This will be the second Poe museum that we have visited on Girls weekend, the first one having been in Philadelphia, a few years back.  Unlike that museum, which was located in a home that the famed poet and story writer had actually lived in, this museum is located in the oldest house in Richmond and, while it is in the neighborhood where Poe grew up and spent the majority of his childhood, it is NOT a house that he every actually lived in.  Apparently those hav...

Well, it’s Day 5, and Lori and I are a bit sad that we’re already past the halfway point of Girls Weekend. It’s definitely overcast today, and it rained at some point and was still a bit drippy outside. We start the day  hovering over our computers and drinking cups of coffee.  Lori has been the designated coffee maker for this trip. We have a Keurig in the apartment, and our hosts keep it well stocked with a few different brands of what seem to be, at best, mediocre tasting coffee, and at worst, tasteless and nasty. Lori has tried everything, including doing a short pour, but nothing really works. We are craving Starbucks but there isn’t one close to us.  So after determining this to be the case, Lori decided to walk to a nearby coffee shop after her shower to get a "real" cup of coffee.  She ended up at a place with the curious name of Cartwheels and Coffee that is a mere block away from our apartment.  The origin of the name became clear when she walked in...

        Wow.  It's Sunday already, how can that be??  The time on Girls Weekend always seem to go by so very fast.  Our original plan for today was to go to the Edgar Allen Poe museum this morning, then to our Escape Room experience at 5pm.  Instead, we spent a leisurely morning in the room until we were starving and I suggested that we go out and get breakfast rather than having our fruit and yogurt breakfast as we have been having the past couple of days.  Mainly because I had finished off my yogurt the night before!!  I did a little research and determined that Weezie's looked like a good choice for breakfast, so once we both had showered we walked the few blocks to the restaurant.  We did have little bit of a wait, seems this place is a favorite for breakfast.  Kathi and I both had eggs, over medium, with crispy bacon along with whole wheat toast for Kathi and an English muffin for me.  I don't know if the food was exc...

                                          All geared up for our Segway tour of historical Richmond Saturday, October 24, 2015 It’s Day 3, and after having our morning chat and coffee and breakfast, we managed to get out of the apartment by  12:30 . We walked along the same route to downtown that we followed yesterday, noting already-familiar landmarks along the way; the mural walls, the uneven brick sidewalks, Firehouse 12 with the really nice firemen who gave us directions yesterday. Although it was overcast and quite a bit chillier than our first two days, it was still a nice day and we enjoyed the walk. Despite all of this, after about half an hour I had to say “uncle”. My ankles have been deteriorating pretty steadily over the years from arthritis and whatever abuse I have subjected them to, and despite having had a cortisone shot in one of them only a month ago, they were s...

        Sooo.,,,Friday morning, we both woke up around 7:30 or so and we decided to get up and start the day.  Mornings on Girls Weekends, unless we have some morning activity scheduled, have come to consist of cups of coffee, catching up on one another's lives, and catching up on the world on our computers, as well as writing up a journal of our daily events.  We have found that if we wait too long to journal our daily events, that we have a hard time remembering everything that we did, so the sooner we write about it, the better off we are!!  On this particular morning, I am not sure what all we did, but I DO know that we didn't leave our cozy little apartment until 2pm.  Since we decided that we REALLY wanted to go to the showing of The Phantom of the Opera, I called to change our Escape Room adventure from Friday to Saturday and we thought we would walk to Hollywood Cemetery early in the day.  Guided tours are offered at the cemetery, but...

Thursday, October 22, 2015 – Richmond, VA  above the clouds on the way to Richmond, VA for Girls Weekend (the following was written by Kathi) It’s finally here!! The 18th   annual Girls Weekend. It’s weird, the year seems to fly, then when  GW is approaching it slows to a crawl and feels like it will never ever be time…and then,  suddenly, it’s time! Lordy, do we love Girls Weekend. Just sayin’.  In order for us to have the majority of the day here, poor Lori had to take the red eye. She arrived  first at about 10:30, then I arrived an hour later. My bag actually showed up when I did, unlike  last year, and soon we were in a taxi and on our way to our Airbnb in Carytown, an area of  Richmond that, according to my reading, was a somewhat funky, somewhat eclectic  neighborhood with lots of places to eat and shop, and great for walking.  We arrived before the  adorable little basement apartment we were renting was ready, but we got to ...