Girls Getaway

I LOVE October for many reasons, but one of my favorite reasons is because it's my birthday month. "Birthday months" are used to their full potential in our home. If there is a movie to be chosen, all you have to say is "it's my birthday month" and the movie choice is yours. If there is a pair of shoes that I have had my eye on for quite some time, I feel a lot less guilty buying them cause "it's my birthday month". It carries a lot of weight.

This past birthday month was wonderful... not only because I got a new pair of shoes :), but because I was able to share it with my mom and my sister. Oh, and guess what?! It was my sister Jen's birthday month too! Because it was 2 people celebrating a birthday month in October, we decided to go big... San Francisco girls weekend big. (p.s. before we actually drove to San Fransisco, my Mom and sister Jen flew So Cal so that we could go to Disneyland with the kids. Super-duper fun start to a fabulous weekend)

This is the first time us Hinckley girls have ever taken a trip together and it was so much fun!

We went shopping, ate at some fun restaurants (ahem, Slanted Door), went to the De Young Museum,

enjoyed the drive (except for in the psycho city), and had a lot of fun together.

Now the notes below will make absolutely no sense to anyone but me, Mom and Jen... some of my favorite inside jokes from our fun San Fran adventure:

-Tropisueno

-Juan ("uh oh!" from behind a tree)

-bottomless chips and not so bottomless butts ;)

-I sent a bottle of sparkling apple juice to your house, did you get it?

-Hillary Clinton the "dignitary"

-there is no where to go pee in SF

-Incorrect pronunciation game at De Young museum

-unisex bathrooms

-coconut, rice, black beans, sugared bananas = heaven

-homeless man knocking on window... Jen rolling up the window

-cell phone tracking in Nordstrom

-green velvet pants and a red velvet jacket

-ugly shirts turning out to be really cute purchased shirts

-Awkward family photos

-Mama Bear snoring

-radio hopping on car ride

-Jen rapping solidly to "Airplanes" song

-"noisy hangers" waking us up

-creepy man who lost his voice trying to make us laugh and failing miserably

-"Am I supposed to be driving right here?"

-Vitamin C tablets

-oyster initiation

-gelato

-"good thing we didn't take the continental breakfast upstairs!" ($40 later)

-golf clap

-don't step over the tape on the floor!

-you get a discount at Bloomingdales on everything but the things you want to buy

Cyndi Lauper had it right when she sang "girls just wanna have fun"... it must have been her birthday month.

Thanks for the fun weekend ladies!