Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Girls-Girls-Girls!
To end Shannon's fabulous birthday week, she and I drove to Bonita Springs to meet up with two of my classmates from High School. (Thank you Jon for doing the daddy day-care !) We got there early and went to the retirement park where one of my friends lives. It was Shannon's first time at the park (her dad and I love it) and she fell in love with it in two minutes! She wants to move in now, why wait for retirement. She summed it up as, being on vacation everyday.

We went thrift store shopping and Shannon found a few treasures. We met up with gal-pal #2 (who was down on vacation) and had lunch, shopped around and ended our day at-The Best of Everything! A jewelry and more, store. (all kinds of jewelry-$6-12.00-, sunglasses @ $5.00- purses and carry all bags $10-15 and much more!)

Shannon thinks Best of Everything should franchise all over the U.S. as there was no sign of a recession there! Driving in, the lot was packed and husbands were sitting on the outside deck while their wives dipped into their retirement cash! Once inside you need a traffic cop to hand out trays and move lines. Plan for extra time in the check out lane. Although they make it pretty painless by pre-packaging and having four or five checkouts. Whether you are shopping for yourself or buying gifts, the prices are so good and the quality so great, if you haven't checked this place out it is worth the drive to Naples or Bonita Springs. (I purchased Shannon a few esential B-day gifts, the other girls made purchases too. It's hard to leave with out spending.) One thing I will add the staff is NOT friendly or helpful. In fact most of them are darn right rude! So expect to look around to find what you want.

We headed back to the park and sat by the pool, had a snack, added a man to our crew (a hungry husband) and went for a seafood dinner. We sat outside and visted for several more hours. From old stories to new ones, it was a ball. When we got home I said to Shannon, "Okay, does this end birthday week?" And she agreed her birthday was finally over. So until next year...Happy Birthday, so happy I could spend it with you.