My best friends from college and I have always talked about doing an annual trip out to Florida and this year it finally happened! We have all been close friends since freshman/sophomore year in college and were bridesmaids in each other's weddings. It has been 7 months since we've all been together, but now that we all live in different cities, it's a lot harder to meet up. Pauline lives in Chicago, Christal in Minneapolis, and Amanda in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After this trip, we have definitely agreed that we will make Florida an annual thing...especially around the winter when we're all having to deal with snow (or rain in my case!). Below are some pics of our wonderful and relaxing trip (not in chronological order) to West Palm Beach, Florida.
Here we are posing on our way to a block party that Vince Neil invited us to. So there's actually a little story to this - we went to the famous Breakers Hotel to grab drinks/appetizers. Pauline recognized a familiar face in the corner of the bar but couldn't place what band he was with. She texted a friend and he texted back with Vince Neil (the lead singer of Motley Crue). I googled him on my iPhone and got to actually compare a side by side picture of him (from a distance). We agreed that it was him and went up to him and asked for his autograph. What an awesome guy - just really nice and chill (and didn't complain that we interrupted his lunch!). He told us about his block party that he was throwing that evening at his club, Dr. Feelgoods. And so here we are in this pic...on our way to the party :)
We all took a walk to the beach to get our exercise in. It was windy, the waves were huge, and they put a flag up indicating that jellyfish and man-o-war were predominant in the waters...so we decided against hopping in the ocean. But at least we enjoyed the sunshine!
Every night, we hung out at the Blue Martini and enjoyed our free martinis (thanks for the VIP cards!). And the food there was phenomenal. Yum!
This is why this post is out of chronological order (I didn't want to have to re-upload the pics). Here's a pic of Vince Neil up close during his block party. It was awesome rocking out to Motley Crue songs and some of his new stuff! Not someone I would ever go and choose to see live...but if it's free, I'm not going to complain!
Ending this post with a relaxing pic. We stayed at Christal's parent's condo. This is the view from their condo of the pool...just relaxes you looking at it eh? I'm looking forward to our future trips to Florida!
Here we are posing on our way to a block party that Vince Neil invited us to. So there's actually a little story to this - we went to the famous Breakers Hotel to grab drinks/appetizers. Pauline recognized a familiar face in the corner of the bar but couldn't place what band he was with. She texted a friend and he texted back with Vince Neil (the lead singer of Motley Crue). I googled him on my iPhone and got to actually compare a side by side picture of him (from a distance). We agreed that it was him and went up to him and asked for his autograph. What an awesome guy - just really nice and chill (and didn't complain that we interrupted his lunch!). He told us about his block party that he was throwing that evening at his club, Dr. Feelgoods. And so here we are in this pic...on our way to the party :)
We all took a walk to the beach to get our exercise in. It was windy, the waves were huge, and they put a flag up indicating that jellyfish and man-o-war were predominant in the waters...so we decided against hopping in the ocean. But at least we enjoyed the sunshine!
Every night, we hung out at the Blue Martini and enjoyed our free martinis (thanks for the VIP cards!). And the food there was phenomenal. Yum!
This is why this post is out of chronological order (I didn't want to have to re-upload the pics). Here's a pic of Vince Neil up close during his block party. It was awesome rocking out to Motley Crue songs and some of his new stuff! Not someone I would ever go and choose to see live...but if it's free, I'm not going to complain!
Ending this post with a relaxing pic. We stayed at Christal's parent's condo. This is the view from their condo of the pool...just relaxes you looking at it eh? I'm looking forward to our future trips to Florida!
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Best trip ever! Only to be outdone by Portland in June :)
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