Girls Gone Tahoe

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Recipe for a killer weekend? Girlfriends, epic food, exercise, snow, bad movies, good music, cool drinks, a little work, a lot of play. Three full days in Tahoe in a sort of Sex-and-the-City meets Wildflower training doing a Stitch n' Bitch weekend.

Snowfall on March 21! A wolf came trotting past not too long after this picture.

How you like me now?

Next time you need something done? Go big. Enlist your girlfiends, pimp out the menu, craft a loose agenda and set it on cruise control. All props go to an amazing group of girls who came out big in the midst of changing jobs, moving into new homes, and training for Ironmans to help Jessica style out her and Jeff's new home in Tahoe, making for a great weekend of laughter and good company. And of course to Jessica who made it effortless - all we had to do was show up and move our arms around taping and painting and retouching. And retouching. And retouching.

Rule no 1: Girls weekend ALWAYS starts with champagne.

Rule no 2: Painting before drinking.

Rule no 3: Taping before painting. Happy labor fun time.

Personalized spin class for Tina, the last of the IM virgins in this pic. Canada (2), Idaho, Brazil and Vineman representing!

GGT Playlist Sample:
N.E.R.D - All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom
Bloc Party - One Month Off
Groove Armada - Superstylin'
Kei$ha - TikTok
The Faders - No Sleep Tonight
Hot Hot Heat - Bandages
Abba - Waterloo
Nelly - Ride Wit Me
Hall and Oates - You Make My Dreams Come True
Flock of Seagulls - Telecommunication
Missy Elliott - Work It
Black Eyed Peas - I Got a Feeling
Donna Summers - Last Dance
Flo Rida - Low

And then? No and then!

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