Typically when returning home from a fun vacation with the family, you feel like you need a few more days to recuperate from all the sight seeing, entertainment and running around. A vacation after the vacation. This weekend my two sisters and I had a fun girls weekend, which we are calling our "vegecation". This means getting away for time to truly relax and take it easy. Vegging out with a purpose. Reconnecting. Coming home relaxed.
Our weekend consisted of driving four hours (each way) to stay in a condo in St. George where we watched chick flicks, sang along to favorite songs, played games, ate our favorite snacks and talked. We stayed up late and slept in. And we talked some more. We didn't stay cooped up in the condo the whole time though. We did venture out to Snow state park where we took a long walk and played in the beautiful red sand dunes.
And then there was the main reason for visiting St. George in the first place- the Abbamania concert. This is an Abba tribute band which sings all the most popular Abba songs and dresses in Abba costuming. They were actually very good. The women had beautiful voices. We were surprised by how many men were there. I'm sure some were dragged there in duress by their wives. Those were the men who didn't get out of their seats and sat there in agony. But the majority of the men seemed to be enjoying themselves, and that was entertaining itself. It was a fun concert. But who wouldn't have fun dancing and acting goofy with your sisters while singing along to Mamma Mia, Souper Trouper and Dancing Queen?
What didn't we do? We didn't get online, go shopping or gab on the phone. Hurray! And we didn't feel guilty about vegging out.
But we certainly did talk! And that was the best part of our three days together. Getting to know one another even better than we already did, re-living favorite memories and creating new memories together.
Blessed, honored, traumatized pioneers
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