Rodeo Time

We laid around in the living room for hours just talking and catching up. Slowly one of us would get up to shower and then the next person wouldn't go shower for another hour. We were in no rush whatsoever. We finally made it out of the house around 3:00 and headed to RA Sushi for their happy hour sushi/drink menu. 

After RA, we headed over to Reliant Stadium for the Rodeo Cook Off. We walked around for awhile and then headed over to the stage to hear Cory Morrow play. 

 

We definitely had a few fried oreos. They were delicious!

We were home by 11:30 and ready to call it a night. Unfortunately, they had to leave at 5:40 AM on Sunday. Thankfully, I was able to go right back to bed! 

We had a great weekend and I hope it's not another 5 years before we can all get together at the same place and same time. There is nothing like getting together with your college friends and reliving the college days just for a weekend. Yes, I said just for a weekend. No way could I do that or want to do that all the time! 

Take your shoes off

I apologize for the amount of pictures in this post. It is definitely an overload of almost the same pictures over and over. 

After happy hour, we headed home to get ready for the night. By the time 5 girls got ready with only 1 the bathroom, it was 9:45 before we even left the house for dinner.

We called a cab and had many issues with finding it. After about 10 minutes of walking around outside of my apartment trying to find the cab, this is what we looked like.  

We finally made it to TQLA

They have quite an extensive drink menu so the madness begins shortly....

We left TQLA and headed to Eight on Washington. I am not a fan of this bar AT ALL. I am not a "clubby" girl in the least bit. I figured that with our group though, we would have fun anywhere. And we definitely did. 

The MADNESS BEGINS

So we were dancing on the dance floor and got really tired of all of the guys that kept trying to dance on us or that were just standing there staring at us. We decided to go into a corner and have our own dance party, just the 5 of us girls. We also decided it would be a great idea to take off our heels. 

Why we added napkins to our pile, I will never know!

As gross as it sounds, where we were dancing, the floor was pretty clean! It was definitely a great decision because all of our  moods changed drastically once we took our shoes off. We were some dancing fools!

The madness really begins now. While we were minding our business in our own little corner, the manager of Eight, comes over to us and asks if we would like to join some guys in the VIP section for free drinks. We didn't hesitate for one minute! I don't think we even discussed it. We grabbed our stuff and headed straight over there.

I cannot believe I am putting these pictures on the Internet. Thankfully no one from work reads my blog! The night definitely got crazy once we entered the VIP area. We were now dancing on the couches instead of the floor. We were pouring grey goose into those guys' (whoever they are) mouths. 

Maybe we were too obnoxious for the guys or maybe they realized we weren't there for anything other than free drinks, but it was pretty much just us girls having fun in the VIP room for the rest of the night! 

We ended the night with an obnoxious cab ride home and then all 5 of us piled on the pull out couch watching Borat at 3 AM.

Thankfully the pictures look like we were worse off than we really were. We were up by 9 the next morning and no one was hungover whatsoever! We all piled on the pull out again and had mimosas and biscuits! It was an awesome night out and relaxing morning. 

Pampering Time Begins

We had to start off our girls weekend with some pampering of course. I have been to many nail places all over Houston. I have found that Bora Bora does a great job for a decent price. They also speak English which gives them major brownie points in my book. 

me, Michal, Heather, and Jennifer

After getting our nails did, we headed over to Rice Village to have a few happy hour drinks at Bakers Street. We also added one more to the bunch because Lauren finally was able to meet up with us. Lauren and I are the only two who live in Houston. The rest of the girls live in Louisiana. I wish we were all able to get together more often. The last time we were all together was probably 5 years ago.

me, Michal, and Lauren

The table did not stay clear for long. It was soon full of wine glasses, beer glasses and appetizers. It was definitely not a healthy weekend, but who cares!

We had to get home soon though to change and get ready for the long night ahead which needs it's own post due to the amount of pictures taken. 

Weekend Part 1

 My mom probably wouldn't be too proud of this post, but thankfully she doesn't read my blog. If she is, well sorry mom, but this doesn't happen often!

This is my best friend Michal. She also writes here since she doesn't over there. We became best friends in kindergarten and have stayed super close since then.  I am not quite sure when tequila became our thing, but it is. Every single time we are together, we have to take at least one shot of tequila. 

I finally got some sort of poof in my hair thanks to this comb. I will be going to buy one today! 

 Taking the tequila shot is usual/normal. This, not so much. 

Seriously though, we couldn't go to TQLA and not have a shot of tequila! 

It's Friday

It’s Friday, Friday

Gotta get down on Friday

Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend

Friday, Friday

Gettin’ down on Friday

Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend

I am very much looking forward to this weekend. Some of my college best friends are coming to visit me in Houston this weekend. Here are a few pictures from probably 5 years ago. We definitely need to take more this weekend to update! 

This was our shining days at Fred's at LSU.

Me and Michal...our famous tequila shot

at the Florabama. Spring Break 2006

NYC Spring 2008

NYC Spring 2008

We will eat and shop till we drop I am sure. Of course we will consume several of these...

and not to sound like an alchi, but at least one of these will be consumed...it's tradition

Hope everyone else has a great weekend planned too! 

So cute

Brady and Luke AKA "Duke"

can't wait to see both of them in 2 weeks!!!

My Weekend

Last weekend I went to Louisiana for a Mardi Gras ball. Some friends from Dallas were coming to visit and had never been to Louisiana. They watch swamp people and of course think that is what Louisiana is all about. They were dying to go on a swamp tour so we found one. It was actually quite fun. We didn't expect to see any alligators since it is winter, but we did. 

 This is the airboat we road on. It was super loud and we had to wear headphones the whole time. 

An alligator sunbathing. 

Here are some pictures I took of the Atchafalaya Basin/swamp while riding in the boat. Apparently this is the largest swamp in the US. 

We also got to eat boiled crawfish Friday night at Randol's while listening to a cajun band. On Saturday morning before the swamp tour, we ate at Cafe Des Amis. They had an awesome zydeco band playing and it was so much fun! 

After the swamp tour, we went home to get ready for the ball. 

This isn't a great picture because I had to zoom in so much to cut out my boy. My dress also isn't that color. It is much more of a teel color than that. I did not take many pictures at the ball. I was too busy dancing and drinking having fun. We are going to another one during Mardi Gras weekend and I cannot wait!