For Christmas this past year, Josh worked really hard to come up with a very thoughtful and original gift for me. A weekend retreat with girlfriends! He made a book to show me everything he’d planned and finally, last weekend, the time had come to party! Unfortunately, due to all kinds of circumstances, the weekend wasn’t quite what Josh had planned, but those of us able to attend still made the most of it and had a good time! Josh had arranged for flowers and sweets in the hotel room, and we had fun looking over the “Pillow menu!” Never did order any pillows! Sarah showed me how to apply false eyelashes which we then both wore out to dinner with the ladies. Mmm Peking! Unfortunately, I completely forgot to take my camera to dinner 
so I don’t have pictures with many of the guests. Then, back at the hotel it really seemed like we were the ONLY guests and we played games and laughed and stayed up singing until around 3 am with our sliding doors to the pool area wide open! The pool unfortunately was closed, so we didn’t get to do any swimming.
In the morning, the trolley picked us up at the hotel and we had a little tour around Muscatine/dance party–80’s tunes blaring! (Courtesy of Danaka’s and then Sarah’s ipod hooked into the trolley stereo system!) We stopped up at the Mark Twain overlook for some pictures–one overlooking the Mississippi River, and one overlooking downtown Muscatine. After a few more errands we stopped at my parents’ home for warm soup, cold sandwiches, and some knitting lessons!
Of course I’m leaving out several of the details, like why Danaka has that awesome blue streak in her hair 
but what can I say, we like to party!