Trip to Oregon

I recently took a much needed trip to a seafood and wine festival on the Oregon coast. I met up with eight of my friends in Portland and we drove three hours to the Newport Beach area. I have worked with several of the girls on board various cruise ships and the other girls were friends of my former boss.

We have all been looking forward to this trip for months and I was so glad to finally be there. We rented a house to be more cost effective, and after arriving we all unloaded our belongings and the mayhem began with picking out our rooms. The house was rather large and boasted accommodations for twenty-one, which included several futons and various sized beds. My two closest friends and I got put in the basement and rather than sleeping in the bedrooms, we pushed three futon beds together to create one mega bed. The other girls laughed so hard when they saw it and I think some of them were secretly jealous because they hadn't thought of it first.

I had a wonderful time catching up with everyone, because we are all from different states and don't get the chance to speak regularly. The first night I don't think anyone could sleep due to the giddiness of being together in one place for the firs time in a very long time. Morning came too soon and after a Starbucks run, we were off to the festival. But being the fun loving girls we are, we stopped off for beads and fun hats to wear first. After arriving at the festival grounds, the excitement mounted and everyone had their cameras ready to catch all the funny moments that we had waited so long to enjoy together. It was not a disappointment. About two hours later than we should have stayed and a few hundred photos later, we all piled back into our vehicles and headed to the beach for some more fun. I don't think we could have had a bad time if we had tried. The weather was perfect and the sun showed up to make our day even better. The Pacific was more beautiful as I remembered it, and I could not believe it has been two years since I saw it.

As good times always do, the weekend was over seemingly before it had even started and it was time to say goodbye. It was almost harder leaving the girls I have grown to love now than it was when we all left the cruise ship. We have plans on making this an annual girls weekend trip, so hopefully we will all be able to see eachother atleast once a year.