Girls Weekend!

I love GNO (Girls' Night Out) for those not familiar with the acronym. I have a group of girls from my mission, 5 of us to be exact (3 of the 4 were my companions). We try to stay in touch by having GNO every 6-8 weeks (more frequently if we can pull it off)! We usually start or end with dinner/lunch because.. what girls event isn't going to include food?! Then we try to do a fun activity like clothes shopping, pedicures, furniture/decor shopping, visiting the Temple or just more shopping. We use it as a time to catch up and for my friends that are married w/kids a break from being a mom for a night.

Well, recently we decided it was time to have a Girls' weekend. We hadn't really had a girls' trip since before they were married. So it was time! We decided to go to St. George for the weekend and if we were traveling that far we may as well travel the extra 2 1/2 hours to Primm, Nevada. Primm is located about 45min outside Las Vegas just on the border of California and Nevada. Primm has an amazing outlet mall that anytime we are close to I have to stop by. I always find the greatest deals!

We all headed out Friday morning, well all of us but LeAnn. LeAnn is still single and was planning to go until Thursday night when she got a call from a really cute guy in her ward that asked her out on a date for Friday night. LeAnn was torn and called me to see what she should do.. I still remember being single and told her to of course go on the date! We really missed her this trip but she will be along for our next adventure!

Once we arrived in St. George we stopped at the condo where we were staying. Then started the weekend with dinner at a fabulous Italian restaurant in St. George, then in true GNO fashion we went to see a chick flick, 27 dresses. It was really cute and perfect to go see with the girls. We then came back to the condo chatted some more and watched another movie. Crazy!

Saturday we got up and went to breakast at the neatest little cafe on St. George Blvd. This is the one and only picture we took of all of us after breakfast. Usually I am the designated picture taker but totally failed on this adventure.. sorry gals!

Left to right: Kim, Becky, Nikie and Me

Then we headed to Primm, NV. During the 2 1/2 hour drive, we listened to President Hinckley's funeral on the radio. After the funeral was over we discussed our memories of him. What a neat experience it was to share our feelings of such a great man.

We arrived in Primm at 1pm, a little later than we had hoped but definitely shopped 'til we dropped, literally! We shopped for 7 hours straight! We stopped for about 30min to grab additional food and to sit down for a bit. My friend Becky is 4 1/2 months pregnant and was such a trooper. We found some great deals but were a bit dissapointed in the shoe selection. oh well.. next GNO we will go shoe shopping!

Here is a picture of all of our bags.. keep in mind this is after we pulled everything out to show to each other and consolidated to have less bags to carry home.

Of course we hit Outback Steakhouse on the way back to the condo ...at 9pm! Which means we didn't get back until close to 2am the next morning, then got up at 8am to head home. That was the day of the HUGE snowstorm and made for a fun drive home. We made it back safely and quicker than we thought we would.

It was a whirlwind trip but soooo much FUN! We all get a long so well and no one ever complained it was fabulous! Looking forward to the next girls' trip!