Last weekend, I was able to go on a “girls getaway" with 6 of my medical school friends. Although we graduated medical school almost 14 years ago, this is the first time that we were all able to get together (except at each other’s weddings) since then. It has certainly been a busy 14 years completing residency and fellowship training, getting married, and having children (15 total amongst us!) So now that all of our kids are a bit older, it was nice to be able to get together and reconnect.
Moms in a minivan:
We chose Phoenix for our destination. On Saturday and Sunday mornings we got up early to beat the heat and went on hikes. Saturday was to Tom’s Thumb, a 4.5 mile round trip hike up to a view point in Scottsdale.
On Sunday, we took a shorter, but steeper and more challenging hike to the top of Camelback mountain—the train rose 1300 feet in 1.2 miles—really more of a rock scramble than a hike, and certainly a good, albeit anaerobic, work out!
We enjoyed relaxing by the pool in the afternoons, and even went to the spa as an early mother’s day treat to ourselves! We are lucky to have such great husbands who allowed us to travel by watching the kids!
We made tentative plans to get together again in 2020—hope we can make it work!
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