A Trip to Georgia

Well, this was a first for me.  After seven years of being a mom, I finally went off on a girls' weekend away.  It took me that long to be okay with being away from my girls!  I've been away overnight twice in the past two years, but never an entire weekend.  I'm glad I waited until I was ready...I had so much fun!  A group of us drove up to Cartersville, Georgia, to visit our friend, Trudi.  If you remember, she moved up there back in June.  We were finally able to coordinate, and we had a blast!

Jennifer and I left first thing Friday morning and drove 8.5 hours.  Jane and Marie left later that day and got in later.  Marissa surprised us all and drove over from Alabama, and another friend of ours, Cheryl, came up from Atlanta.  She moved there not long after Trudi moved.

Friday night, it was just the three of us (Trudi, Jennifer and me).  We ate dinner at Longhorn and then Trudi showed us around her quaint little town.  The next morning, everyone else was finally there, and we all went to Trudi's gym to take an RPM class.  It's the Les Mills' version of Spinning.  That was fun!  Then we had another tour of the city and then lunch.  After that, Trudi took us on a 5-mile "hike"/"leisurely stroll" up a mountain trail...WOW at the foliage!  I'm so jealous that central Florida doesn't get this at all!  Check out these gorgeous pictures...

This was after RPM...this man is Roc and he's a regular at the gym there.  It's so fun riding with him because when it's time to go hard on the bikes, he blows his coach's whistle, and everyone knows it's time to get serious and work!

Later that evening, we went to eat at Chili's (like we always used to do back in Lake Wales) and had lots of fun.

We took this before eating at Cracker Barrel on the way up...the first of several pigging out sessions!

It was SOOOO good to see Trudi again!  She is so missed!

After practically taking the weekend off from working out, it was time to get serious this week.  I never take off an entire weekend unless I'm sick!  It drove me nuts sitting still in a car for two days.  Wednesday was the Body Combat launch at Gold's, and Cheryl was part of the instructor team.  Jennifer and I went to the class to support her...as always, it kicked our butts!

Later that evening was Body Pump...and Jennifer and I just happened to wear the same shirt.  So, naturally, being the camera hog that I am....I had to take a few pictures...for no reason at all :)

And this concludes this week's photos!  I just realized I haven't taken ANY of my girls in the past two weeks....what?!  That's unheard of.  I better get on it.  One more week until school is out for Thanksgiving Break....that will give me a lot of time to get them on film :)

Have a great week!