Florida!

I was fortunate enough to take a trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida with my closest girl friends. The trip cost us very little (a big thanks to my internship supervisor, Deb!) and we were able to make this Kara's bachelorette party weekend.

Laura, Kara, Jess, Sumre, Amanda and I stayed at Laura and Aaron's house the night before and woke up VERY early in order to leave for the airport by 4am. I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but getting six women out of bed, dressed and ready before 4am is no small feat. Somehow we were out the door before 4:00, how that happened I will never know. Off we were to Florida! Well, to the Kansas City airport, then to Florida.

See?! Proof!

Our flying experience was anything but glamorous. On our first flight we not only sat in the back of the plane near the smelly restroom but we had a crabby flight attendant. We weren't all that enthused about being up early either but she sure was a grouchy butt. We survived and made it there, got to the resort, did our grocery shopping and decided to lay out by the pool for a while. It was lovely! So relaxing, just what we all needed.

Laura covering her nose from the smell...

We went back to the room, made supper and had...a few...drinks. :)

The next day we went to the beach which was owned by our resort and private so we had less creepers than the other beach (but not completely creeper-free). Sumre and I played in the waves for a long time while the other girls relaxed, tanned and read their books. They got just a liiiiiiittle sun burned so we took it easy the next day.

Sumre and I getting thrown around in a wave...we didn't have any fun at all ;)

We had a nice dinner out on Saturday night, then on Sunday we went back to the beach and rented chairs with umbrellas for those who were a little too pink for the sun. Laura and I weren't burned so we saved our pennies but later in the afternoon two ladies who had chairs next to the other girls were leaving and offered them to us, bonus! We got a mojito and strawberry margarita to celebrate!

Enjoying our free chairs with an umbrella!

We went to the beach on Monday morning to say 'goodbye', packed our bags and headed back to the airport and back to Kansas. We had a great trip and hope that we can do something similar next year!