I had such a lucky weekend with girlfriends. Dennis Fiorvanti from Essential Wholesale planned an amazing birthday weekend for his beautiful wife (and business partner), Kayla. He flew in Kayla’s friends from all across the country to wow Kayla and in a feat of surprise-genius-ness, really truly surprised her. We all hid in the kitchen and waited for her to arrive home. And boy was she happily shocked!
Dennis had everything planned out – dinner at The Melting Pot first. If you’ve never been there, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience; decadent food, an amazing experience and way too much tantalizing food. It is not for any sort of dieters though; I literally gained 2 pounds overnight after this sumptuous feast. (P.S. In case you have never had the pleasure of meeting Kayla, in the top left photo, that’s Kayla’s Mom, Kayla and me).
After a late night giggle fest, the next morning we did brunch at Kayla’s favorite breakfast place and then it was off for Group Pedicures for all of us! We were so happy that the spa could accommodate all of us. I went with a pale pink but had a completely jealous moment over one of the other gals’ ‘Very Merry Berry’ colored toes.
After pedicures, we went to go see Julie & Julia (see Donna Maria’s write up about it here; that’s Donna Maria in the green in the above photos) and all agreed it was an amazing movie – a definite ‘Must See’ for all entrepreneurs.
And as if that was not enough, Kayla treated us all to dinner at her favorite Lebanese Restaurant followed by a shopping trip at the Essential Wholesale sample bar. I left with a bagful of goodies and a guilty heart for being so greedy. But even with my guilty, greedy heart, we all agreed that the goody bags for the birthday party attendees were sure a classy touch.
All in all, I felt super lucky to be included in such a special weekend for Kayla. It was the perfect girlfriends’ weekend and I returned to Bellingham feeling thankful and refreshed.
