I had the best time this weekend, nestled amongst good friends- what could be better!
I headed over Saturday afternoon to meet up with Gerri Ann and Barb at our hotel in Tampa near Linda's house. We had fun catching up and piling all the gifts in the car to head over to her house. Once there, it was food central!! Tons of good food including this fabulous tray you can order from Publix with such yummy things in it...
The family room was filled to the hilt with fabulous presents to each stocking pal and everyone agreed that this was one of our most favorite nights of the year! The homemade gifts were to die for, with I think Elle topping it with her fabric album she made for Barbara. She spent something like 80 hours on it and it consisted of all antique lace, buttons, etc. and was gorgeous!
I have put up many pictures on a facebook album and will include all the pages to this too as you have to see it! Fabulous!
Both Gerri Ann and Mary both got the Tim Holtz boxes too and were thrilled!!
Can you tell she was excited!!
We would open gifts and then stop and eat for awhile, open gifts, ....we didn't leave Linda's til almost 2am so that tells you how much fun we had. Laughs and hugs galore. I'm so happy to be part of this wonderful group of friends! Certainly makes my Christmas since I live alone too! I brought everything home, some still wrapped and put them under my almost tree....lol.
Sunday, GA, Barb and I headed back to Linda's around 10am and ended up meeting til about 4pm going over our up coming trip in June. We made reservations for our Seattle hotels- Warwich Hotel for 2 nights, Holiday Inn Express for 1 night when back from the cruise. The Warwich is near the fish market that we all want to see plus they tell us we'll see the space needle from our room! Linda was on the phone for an hour with Warwich, going over everything and us laughing up a storm.
We also decided on all our tours for the cruise and have them ordered....can't wait, so excited as one of them is going out on a boat and whale watching!! We are also VERY excited about our suite on the ship as we went BIG- Owner's suite
! There are 4 of us so we wanted room and we got one with a bedroom and living area plus a balcony that is 116 square feet which is big for a ship balcony! We'll be out there a lot I'm sure enjoying the beautiful Alaskan scenery. Wouldn't you like to join us!! We're going with Cruise and Crop this time. It's also a scrapping cruise when at sea put on my Embellish IT!! It's sold out already! Leaving from Seattle, Washington and sailing to Juneau, Skagway, Tracy Arm Fjord & Victoria, British Columbia. The cruise also cruises through the Inside Passage. To say we're excited is putting it mildly!! It'll be costly but oh so worth it. I'll be subbing a lot the next 6 months, lol.
I've wanted to go to Alaska forever and can't believe I'm finally going! We're flying into Seattle two days ahead of time so we can enjoy the city first which should be a blast too. We just have to firm up our flight plans now and Gerri Ann is working on that. So by the time I left Linda's, I had a full car full of gifts and definite plans for next June! We'll be leaving June 13th and getting back home on the 23rd.
The pups were sure glad to see me and we had a lovely restful evening last night, reading the paper, etc. Today, I'm still pooped but taking it easy. I'm not going to sub this week as I have several things planned including lunch with Midge and looking at the new pier plans at the downtown museum and on Friday, reading the "Polar Express" to kindergarteners at Bay Point Elementary.
So now you're caught up with me! How was your weekend and what is your week looking like? Hope it's a fabulous one!
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