Admit it girls: We love a good girls’ nights out.
I’ll admit it. Occasionally I like to set down my well-worn copy of La Femme Mystique and go out on the town without one single feminist thought in my head.
I like to spend 2 hours getting gushied up: putting on 3 coats of eyeliner, teasing the crap out of my hair and stuffing myself into too small shoes/pants/dresses. I love going to the club and dancing like no one is watching but really knowing everyone is watching. I even love having the occasional cherry-topped drink bought for me. Sometimes it’s nice to embrace every single societal constructed stereotype of what it is to be a girl.
But what is even better than these hairspray filled nights are the chill girls’ weekend to follow. It is nice to wake up in your besty’s bed, with crazy cat curled up between your legs, and even crazier hair haloing your make-up smeared face. Yes it is nice to wake up a mess and not bother to fix it.
And after lounging around in borrowed pj’s for an hour and looking through the progressively drunker photos, it is perfect to throw on a skirt and a tank top and wander the suddenly summery streets of Chicago. After a Jamba Juice, followed by a massive coffee, mutual hangovers seem to disappear or at least fade and then of course the shopping is on.
What is amazing about girls and shopping, is it doesn’t matter if you actually find what you are looking for. Shopping is the journey not the destination. So after minimal purchases, it is lovely when our lunch “break” turns into a two hour long life conversations on the steps outside Chicago’s most adorable Italian café.
And how else could this perfect girls’ weekend end? Well only with dinner of amazing all organic and local appetizers at Uncommon Ground and the comedy show “Cupid Gets a Heart On” at the IO theater of course.
Yup girls weekend in Chicago is like life with a cherry on top.
uncommon ground is absolutely fabulous!
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