Johnson Girls Weekend- part 2

I knew there were so many pictures from this weekend that doing it all in one post was NOT going to happen. :) SO- here is the second part of our weekend!
Friday was our first full day together in Shreveport, and there was SHOPPING to be done!
We all slept in- like till 10AM slept in! CRAZY!! I couldn't tell you the last time I slept until 10am! It was absolute HEAVEN.
But eventually we all started stirring and got up and got the coffee going, because PRIORITIES! Everyone sat around for a bit and snacked on some breakfast and chatted while we all took turns getting dressed. The mall was our destination for the day!

Everyone enjoyed just strolling around the mall and taking in the sights. Our plan was to go to see another 7pm movie, but we were done way earlier than that, so we decided to head back to the hotel room, get in our pajamas and order Chinese!
If only we had known how MUCH food we were ordering..... it was crazy!

We each ordered something different and just shared. Chinese food in your pajamas is a wonderful way to relax! It was a first for me.

Mimi's fortune was the BEST!

We watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Father of the Bride. We all 5 laughed until we hurt! It was the absolute best time. We once again turned in late and slept well!
Saturday morning we slept in...surprise surprise! It was almost 10 when we all started stirring again.... except for Aunt Susan. Oh no.... she was up at the crack of DAWN- which I think was sometime around 8 am..... And decided to be nice and go down to the breakfast buffet downstairs and secure breakfast for us all! Which really was a sweet gesture...until she came back into the room and dropped the silverware that she stole borrowed from the dining room! It woke pretty much everyone up, but no one was willing to say anything in fear of us all getting really woken up and not being able to go back to sleep! But it was later confirmed that we ALL heard her banging around in the "kitchen" of our hotel room!
However, when we did decide to finally wake up, we discovered that we had a nice breakfast waiting for us....in Walmart sacks! Oh yes.... Aunt Susan had not only gone down to the buffet and secured some breakfast for us, she did it in her bathrobe and carried empty Walmart sacks to put her groceries in! We had yogurt, fruit, bagels, cream cheese, peanut butter galore, hot chocolate, plates, and SILVERWARE! We had it all!! I can only imagine what the hotel people must have thought about her getting on the elevator with her full Walmart bags! I mean- SERIOUSLY! Did people laugh at the bathrobe breakfast bandit??? How did she not laugh at herself??? I will tell you this one thing for sure....it provided LOTS and LOTS of laughs for the rest of us as we gave her a hard time about it!!! However, we were very thankful for our breakfast! :) It kept us from eating leftover Chinese for breakfast!
We discussed several options for the day, but in the end, Canasta won! Because- DUH! I couldn't believe we had all been together this long and NOT played cards yet! So we took showers and put our pajamas back on and by lunch time we were elbow deep in a mean card game!
We did the obligatory card draw to see who would be partners, but it showed that Mimi and Aunt Susan would be partners and Taron and I would join up. So we knew for sure that the cards were wrong and just partnered up in the RIGHT way! Mimi and Taron (aka- the cheaters!) against Aunt Susan and I (the winners!). 

Aunt Bit, the non card player of the family, took her seat on the couch to yell at watch some Bama football! We really aren't sure how we got a non card playing member of this family. It just ain't right. She did, however, heat up leftover Chinese food and serve it to us as we played! She says that she can't take all the harsh words that are spoken at the card table, that it would make her cry. I tell her that the harsh words are all said with LOVE. But I'm not sure she completely believes that.
I am pretty sure that the absolute BEST part of the whole trip was beating Taron and Mimi at cards 2 1/2 times!!! And nothing causes "Mrs. Johnson" to come out in my grandmother quite like loosing!
This is her fake smile she gives when she is LOOSING!!!!

And of course Aunt Susan and I remained calm and quiet and collected about winning.....NOT!!!! We reminded them constantly who was ahead! DUH! That's what they would do! It even got so bad that after each hand, instead of announcing the new score, Mrs. Johnson Mimi would just turn the score sheet upside down and not say a word! Oh sweet Victory!
They ended up forfeiting the third game half way through it. Yep- we were winning that bad! And it was time to get dressed for dinner! ;-)
Luckily she forgave me and let me be her granddaughter again...

I just love this lady!! 
We had spotted a cheesecake bistro down on the boardwalk. (is anyone else singing?? or just me?? LOL) So that is where we decided to go for "dress up night". It was so very good!! But once again we had TOO much food! We couldn't even fathom cheesecake when we were done. However Aunt Bit and I forged through and ordered it anyway!

Pumpkin cheesecake! O..M..G.. heaven on a plate! It was so good, but we were SO full! Even the 5 of us couldn't finish it!
We attempted pictures afterward in front of the boardwalk sign...

But they didn't turn out that great.
It had turned a little chilly out (not that we would have known since we didn't leave our hotel room at ALL until dinner!) and Taron shared her wrap with Mimi, which caused a lot of laughter as they TRIED to walk!

And after we got back in the car, we had to document that Aunt Susan had worn HEALS!!! Really- she did!

But they were replaced with flip flops soon after getting in the car.
After we got back to the hotel, we decided to take some pictures since we were all dressed up!
The hotel clerk was nice enough to capture some great ones for us!

(Notice Aunt Susan's shoes....) 

Mimi and 2 of her 3 granddaughters... 

But next we needed some with our TIARAS!
Mimi, Taron and I posed first, and Taron posted this picture on Instagram. I absolutely love what it says..

Our first attempt at a group princess shot was with the trusty ole selfie stick in the room...

But the coloring was horrible! So we stepped into the hallway...

And it was definitely better.
We should have gone back down and asked the hotel clerk (who already thought we were crazy) to take pictures of us in our Tiaras.... but for the sake of looking completely insane, we decided not to.
Our night ended with our pajamas and Father of the Bride part TWO. One of my ABSOLUTE favorite movies of all time!! We discovered the night before that Mimi had never seen the second one- and that's just Un-American! So we quoted it all day long.... and finally watched it that night. I'm pretty sure she agreed with us that it was an AWESOME movie! We all laughed until we had tears.
It was hard to go to bed knowing that we had to get up and leave the next morning. But since we had to get up EARLY we gave in and went to sleep. Pretty sure we all slept great. We were exhausted from all the laughing!
The next morning we loaded up the few bags we brought...

Johnson Girls Don't Travel Lite! We did however, pack a little better the second time! 
And we said our farewells. It was hard, yet, oh so wonderful because of the great time we had! I have not been that filled with fun and love in a long time. It was an amazing weekend with 4 women that mean the world to me. We laughed, we talked, we laughed some more, we ate, we drank coffee, and did I mention that we LAUGHED?! Memories were made that will not be forgotten. Inside stories and jokes will go on for a long time! ("Are you going to shoot that light out?") I can not even begin to describe the love that was felt with this group. I plan to make sure that this was not a once in a lifetime opportunity- it will become a tradition! Girls weekend 2016 is already in the works! (and so is PIE day!!!!) See- I told you.... INSIDE JOKES!
Thank you wonderful ladies for the amazing weekend. I needed it. I am blessed.