GiRL's NiGhT!

This past weekend was a fun getaway... no boys allowed :) Destination: Toronto!

3 of the 4 pictured here are pregnant (which ones??!) and with me due in two weeks, we knew we needed to make this trip a reality before more babies entered the world. I had a doctor's appt. right before we left and he told me I was dilated the same. When I told him about our trip he raised his eyebrows and said I better turn the car around quick if my water broke or I started having contractions. I'll admit that the farther away we drove, the more secretly anxious I became. We joked that at least we had 2 nurses in the car that totally knew how to clamp an umbilical cord and my only real concern would be the mess left in Rachel's car. Yuck. Well, I'm happy to report that no fetus's became newborns and we had a great time :)

We pulled in to Toronto around 8pm and had dinner at a nice restaurant called Casey's Bar and Grill. Then we checked into our hotel before going to the theater to see The Dilemma. It was a comedy with Vince Vaughn and was really pretty funny. Unfortunately for Megan, she must have caught some sort of bug earlier, and missed the last 15 min. of the show, generously giving her dinner back to the bathroom. Poor Meg! :(

 We went back to the hotel after the movie to binge on treats (ok, so maybe only Rach and I were the oinkers :) and what else... talk! Many a {Truth} question was asked and answered....

 ... and some pillows were thrown. (We had to continue the cliches, right?) 

And even sweet Megan stayed up with us until nearly 4am. She deserved some sort of award.

 The next day we slept in, then went to the Toronto temple. None of us had been there before so it was fun to be at a new temple! It's a "big" one so it was nice to have many session times to choose from, although our session was very small and there didn't seem to be many workers around. We were completely by ourselves in the Celestial room for like 20 minutes! Then we had to wander around until we found the dressing room again. I remembered a story about my parents being out of town and at a temple, and my dad being embarrassed because my mom decided to help herself to her own tour. So my mom! :) Of course she was hounded down and  reprimanded by the workers for being where she shouldn't be. I felt like we could have easily gotten away with doing just that!

 This is the closest IKEA to where we live, so we had to stop in and do some shopping! We are such moms though.... the majority of what we bought was for our munchkins.

 Driving into downtown, we saw the Hockey Hall of Fame and I rolled my eyes.... why would anyone care about that?!! Then it dawned on me where we were.... Canada. Duh, Stephanie... obviously a very important structure. :)

 This massive mall is the Eaton Centre. Dummies close at 7pm and charge $8 for parking! Not impressed.

Crescent was looking for some jeans and I think she found the perfect pair at H&M! :) I don't think this picture fully portrays the nasty {80'sness} of this denim number. 

 On the way home I tried to take a picture of the CN Tower but this was the best I could do. On their website they claim to be the tallest building in the world, but I thought some building in Dubai held that record. Upon further research it seems that title is subject to very specific definitions which vary by organization.. highest observation deck... % of useable floor space, etc. Lame. But according to the Guiness Book of World Records's definiton, they hold the title of Highest Building in the World.

 It was my white trash idea to go see the Monster Trucks at Roger's Centre that night, but by 7pm we were all yawning and it was snowing pretty bad so we decided it was best to head home. I do think it would have been quite memorable for all those classy citizens to see 3 pregnant ladies cheering on the Grave Digger. (Apparently I was the only one even familiar with this famous truck). Darn. Maybe another time! :) We saw lots of cars spun out on the side of the road on our drive home, but thankfully we made it safely to Buffalo and our sweet hubbies who had held down the forts while we were away. My only regret is that we haven't done this more often over the past couple years! The 4 of us have been wanting to do this for a while now, so I'm glad we finally got her done! :)I'm so thankful to have such great friends. It was a trip to remember.
(Apologies to Rachel for all the many bathroom breaks we had to take... blame the pregnant girls!:)