An impromtu Memphis reunion...

Last weekend, I took the long drive from Mobile to Memphis to see my cute friends from Graduate School. Ryan was wonderful to give me a much needed Girls' Weekend with these amazing women, some of whom I haven't seen in SIX YEARS!

If you don't know the nature of my profession (and chances are you do not), there were 15 people to start with in my Graduate program. After the first Semester (and the mean professors who "weeded people out"), there were 11 of us left. Needless to say, the next 2 years brought us VERY close. Together, we all endured horrible breakups, deaths of close family members, stress of classes/professors/Doctors/etc, stress of living together, and eventually (and Praise the Lord) putting to practice all that we had learned as we found jobs and moved away. Well, in the six years since all of that, we have all gotten married, most of us have had children and most are "trying" once again to grow their individual families.

We all arrived to stay in a nice suite in downtown Memphis. We enjoyed nice dinners on Main Street, downtown and Mud Island, strolls on Beale and in Midtown, and great conversation all weekend. These wonderful women are each amazing and so special to me in different ways. I only hope that it's not another six years before we see each other again!!

Thank you, Elizabeth for putting together such a fun reunion! You are a wonderful, little travel agent. Below is a "before and after" picture. The first is of our "Beale Street Shuffle"-- please ignore the TEST TUBE SHOTS in our hands!! Haha.