Girlfriends Getaway on Vashon Aug 2008

 

What a great girlfriends weekend we had celebrating my dear friend Maria’s milestone birthday (which shall not be named)! She was visiting from WDC where she’s lived for the past 7 years after leaving Chicago (where we both lived when we met). Hippy dippy Vashon Island was our destination and what a perfect spot of the Puget Sound to enjoy summer in Seattle.

The mountain was out and the weather cooperated like no ones business. We relaxed, ate fabulous food, had Reiki treatments (on a commune no less), beach-combed almost everyday and even got a little color. As Maria said, she’s the only person she knows that visited Seattle and is heading back east with a tan! And, as we all know, that’s Seattle’s little secret…which we kept being reminded not to tell people throughout the weekend both on Vashon and while at Pike Place market Friday morning.

It was a low-key and easy weekend away and while I wish we could reco the house we rented, it was a tad too old school for us in spite of the views it offered AND the spiders were a tad too BIG. Ack! We can, however, definitely recommend Cafe Luna for delicious lattes and amazing Lavender Lemonade, and Ferrara Restaurant which we SO wish was located in Seattle instead of on Vashon Island. It and the getaway were both fantastic!