BOOBS part 2 of however many it takes....

 Here's part 2. I was holding out in part because I wanted to keep the reminiscing going and going and going and give you lovelies something to brighten up your weekend.
Also because I can't access blogs from the office and every day forgot to bring my laptop home!
Had a great day Friday shopping and sightseeing along Miracle Mile with Angela, Fluffy and Stacey - was introduced to the incredible Charming Charlies accessory store by the Dallas contingent.
I *think* this was the day I inhaled a molten chocolate cake at Grand Luxe.... the days and desserts are now all a blur.
It may also have been the day I bought the pink argyle socks that represent my (foolish?) decision to join Angela and Fluffy in the Disney Princess Half Marathon in February!!!!
I'll let the rest of the evening be told as they usually are best - in pictures!

I love this photo of Angela and Stacey being tourists as I was being paparazzi

It was like my heros were transformed into 3D
The lovely Karin and Angela

At Pizzeria Uno on Friday night with Karin and Angela

Can't believe how close Stephanie and I live. Well kinda. 

My roomie for the weekend Stacey

I love that Joey scored Boobs wine for all of us. Apparently
Angela felt the same way!

The Friday night meet n greet was WILD. so many
absolutely incredible women
all with incredible stories to share

In the way background, I think it's Stephanie playing paparazzi.
Then in middle, Angela chats with Dawnya and the anonymous Fluffy.
Such a shame I can't show her face because she's Beauyooooooteeeeeful!
And up front we have Krystal on the left and Read

Angie and Barb, Thelma and Louise

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More beautiful ladies. Jenn and Amanda

The weekend planners scored amazing stuff for goodie bags
and even had a dreyload of prizes. I won a filtered water
bottle. More on that in a later post

Stephanie, Draz, Joey and Linda
part of the planners extraordinaire team

Barb models her basket from Stephanie's company
http://www.joyful-gift-baskets.com/

Oh to be able to read Krystal's mind right about now.
Ronnie (in purple dress), Stacey and Angela

Draz lends an air of drama to the evening

Two band rockstars - in real life. in the same picture!
Nicole and the absolutely delightful in person
as she is in her blog Catherine

Jen and Angie

Barb gets a "special" gift. You figure it out yet Barb>

Stephanie was on top of things with all the housekeeping
notes and updates

Nicole, Jacquie and Linda

LapBandGal (another band ROCKSTAR) and Betthan (has
to be said with Dawnya's accent btw)
taking pics of Maria and Jen

Itty bitty Lapband Gal and Betthan who
rocked outfit after outfit all weekend

Stephanie, me, Catherine, Nicole and Joey -
can you believe even ONE of us EVER had the words
morbidly obese written on a medical chart?!?!?

Tina, Catherine and Justine who flew in all the way
from England for BooBs 2.0!

Nicole and Joey

Joey: Gimme more lip
Nicole puckers up
Joey: Less lip
All taking place at the very packed karaoke bar

Angie, Stephanie, Sandy and Grace

So we left the karaoke bar because it was HEAVING
with people and a small group of us went to a very
bizarre nightclub to dance to 'bad 80's music' (hey, that was Maria's
sales pitch!) Angela, Barb and I left and were just steps away
from the hotel when Maria called Angela to let us know
Barb had picked up her handbag! Turns out Barb owns the same
bag! Did I mention it was FREEZING and our feet hurt?!?!

Angela gets us all sorted out and we ended
up hanging out in the hotel lobby
with Barb until the others made it back.

Betsy's pissed at me

Well if you dined with or near me last weekend in Chicago, you may have noticed I managed to leave Betsy my band at home. I wasn't out of control eating by a long shot, but definitely found myself able to eat much more than I usually can.
Including copious amounts of crack.... I mean garrett's Chicago mix!
I managed to come home just 1.5 lbs up. Normally a 5 day vacation in a food capital like chit an would guarantee a 10 lb gain!!
Well apparently Betsy wasn't happy about being let out and the bitch lives for pay back..... I've had a couple of pb episodes including the lunch I went out for upon arrival home.
I've barely been able to eat..... Not hungry and have that sense it's gonna come back up anyway!
Today my new dear colleague brought me a lindt choc bar that his wife brought back from Switzerland. And my almost sis in law brought me homemade coconut tartlets and an empanadas. Havent touched the chocolate, had a lick and bite of a tart and for dinner had the empanadas.....
Weight is about 1/2 lb off my lowest ever!

This band is a fickle lil bitch

A very special BOOBS pic. And they're NOT Barb's....

First of all, let me say that the glow stick lick and stuff in bra was perhaps one of the funniest moments of the entire weekend.
Second of all. I was NOT going to post this. I kept this one out of the mass photo blog last night and emailed it to Brandi for her own personal viewing pleasure and trip down memory (and Oh My God What Was I THINKING?!?) lane. And she emailed back saying 'oh my oh my, post away! lol! but thanks so much for checking first! '

I think 'Just a Wallflower' may just be THE most
misleading blog name EVER! Love ya girl!

Where to begin - BooBs part 1 of however many it takes to tell the story!

I had such an incredible time in Chicago that I'm not even sure where to begin!

Started out with four roomies and due to an unfortunate set of events, there ended up being just two of us and I must say, I hope you all took some time to get to know Stacey - she's lovely and SUCH an easy going roommate. AND she let me FORCE her into buying UGGS.... not because she NEEDED them, but because she WANTED them! Yay!!!!

Spent lots of free time with two spectacular ladies from Texas -- Fluffy and Angela are as amazing as I knew they'd be and then some. Honestly, at some point in the weekend as we were sharing yet another laugh and planning our outfits for the Disney Princess Half Marathon in late February (sweet Jesus how did I get myself into THIS one?!?!) it dawned on me that I'd only met these lovely women a couple days earlier, yet it felt in so many ways, that i'd known them (and loved them) forever!

I was the only one to get in Wednesday night so Thursday morning I ventured out to a RUNNING store and was fitted for shoes. Then did a bit more shopping before freshening up for the initial meet n greet.... Ended up running into the organisers in the hallway and helped lug all the stuff Lynne had driven up with. That truck bed was JAM packed with all sorts of goodness.

After meeting the first batch of lovely ladies, a crew of us headed out for a pizza (chicken wings for me) dinner. Thanks again Stephanie. I think you may just be one of the most generous women I've ever had the pleasure of knowing!

And then it was off to the Drag Show (I want her His body!!!!!) Loads of laughs even if most of the girls guys looked like they really wanted to be anywhere but on that stage!

I found myself falling asleep during the show but am sooooooo glad my fear of missing out on a single moment (you can sleep when ya dead) made me turn right instead of left and took me to the karaoke bar. First of all..... Angela can BELT! Well she could before she lost her voice and left it somewhere in Chicago. And Dawnya, Joey and Brandi had me in freakin hysterics! One of these days I'll learn to cut loose and just get up there and sing or dance like nobody's listening or watching even though I know perfectly well they are!
And Brandi - I know i solemnly promised to cut you off if you started dancing, but then how in the world would I have gotten to see the splits routine?!?!?!

And now for some pictures before I close this post.... to be continued

Donna, Jacquie and Kristin get acquainted

Krystal, Justine and Gilly. Justine was soooooo jet lagged and tired. Can't believe she came all the way over from the motherland!

Love, Love, Love this woman. Keeps it real every moment of every day. Mwwwwaaaah Dawnya

Waiting in the hotel lobby to go to the drag show

picking the RIGHT song!

Barb. And the girls.

Joey stepped up to help her get through the enotional ditty

Looks and SOUNDS like she was born with a mic in her hand!

I KNOW I'll get flack for this one, but she YELLED at me as I was taking it :)

Dawnya was feelin someone up throughout the weekend. Joey was the victim lucky girl this time!

At which point I was SUPPOSED to threaten the bartender with sudden death if he served her any more adult beverages..... oooops!

I hate how Blogspot always gets at least one pic out of order!

Ok - bedtime. More to come. I promise!!!!