Second Chance Bachelorette - mommy night out!

While I was planning our wedding I found a local message board with other girls that were also planning their wedding or were recently married. Over the years, we've had several gatherings for happy hour, dinners, etc. and a handful of us have become pretty close friends. Close enough that we talk with each other on, pretty much, a daily basis. Well, at one point bachelorette parties were brought up in conversation and several of the girls stated they wish they could do it over, because their first bachelorette party wasn't fun. Not me! Mine was lots of fun! Anyway... So a second chance one was planned for anyone who wanted to partake. It was Saturday night and we.had. a.blast!

About 18 of us split 3 hotel rooms at Embassy Suites in Dallas, only 14 of us spent the night. Embassy Suites holds a Manager's cocktail reception every evening with free snacks, beer, wine, and cocktails. So, we all checked in to our respective rooms and then headed downstairs. We all grabbed a drink (or two) and some snacks and sat around and chatted with each other while we enjoyed our drinks & snacks. We all headed back upstairs to get dressed & ready for dinner and our night out.

We split into two different groups to head to the restaurant, Victory Tavern. The first group was in the hotel shuttle, while the other group was in a cab, paid for by the hotel (score!). We had dinner, some more drinks and still more talking. Because that's just what you do when you get a group of women together! Well, maybe I should amend my previous statement. The other girls had drinks. I had a few sips. I had ordered a Lemon Drop martini. I've had these enough times before to know what to expect. I swear to all that's holy - what they gave me was rubbing alcohol in a sugar rimmed martini glass. It was horrid! It was passed around our entire table and only two of the girls disagreed and said it actually didn't taste bad. So, I let Jess B. have it since she thought it tasted fine.

Once dinner was over, we had to split into two groups again to head to The Rose Room, a drag queen show! Since this was a second chance bachelorette party, a couple of the girls were wearing veils. This is a popular place to head for bachelorette parties, so the MC called all the bachelorettes on stage. The girls wearing veils went up there, even though they are technically already married. They had to "compete" for sexiest bride to be by dancing and walking the catwalk. It was very funny and such a sight because I have some silly friends! Our friend Sars (her real name is Sarah), bumped one of the other girls out of the way because she was taking so long on the catwalk. She got a bunch of cheers out of the room for that one. Once that was over, a shot for all the bachelorettes, on the house! Dianthe made friends with the cute gay guys across the aisle from us, Dave & Greg. They bought us all a shot! Free drinks from gay boys are the best! Because you know they don't have an ulterior motive!

Once the drag show was over we all spread out over the club - downstairs on the dance floor, in the lounge/bar area sitting on couches talking, some girls headed back to the hotel. I headed into the lounge and talked some more with some of the girls in there, had another drink then we headed downstairs to find the others. When I got to the dance floor a Justin Timberlake song was on and Dianthe ran up to saying, "Where were you? Justin came on and I was looking for you all over!" Haha! What can I say, she knows me! So, I danced to Justin and I may have even oogled a little at the video playing on the screens and then Meg asked if I was as tired as she was and ready to head back to the hotel. I was, so we did. We caught a cab out front and headed back. Once back to the hotel we talked for a little longer and then I headed to my room for the night. I was the only one staying in my room that was already back, so I tried to get some sleep. Naturally, right when I was falling asleep Dianthe calls my cell and asks me if I was already up in the room and let me know they were headed up. They came in like gang busters - all loud, wound up from dancing & drunk and there went my sleep! Then we stayed up talking until 4am. We slept in until 10 am and headed downstairs to hopefully grab some breakfast before it stopped at 10:30 and we just made it. We stood in the line for pancakes & omelets and by the time we made it over to the bacon, because Dianthe had requested bacon, they had already put the bacon up. So, some of us had omelets and others had pancakes and that was it! Oh, and Jess grabbed a bagel for herself & ReJana.

I had a TON of fun - but I definitely can't do that often!