What you recognize when you go on a girls' weekend
The journey went to Den Bosch. Just the two of us from the north of the country and two more from the south. At eleven o'clock it was time to check in and coffee with a Bossche bol according to the program. At five past half twelve we were complete, because: a little delay and something else going on with a child. You recognize this when you go on a girls' weekend.
1. Within half an hour, I had to cry three times from laughing.
But with such a hysterical hiccup that you actually don't know if you're going to cry really hard or if it just stays at laughing and you have to breathe yourself very much to calm down.
2. You run the risk of coming home with a chandelier.
Because the man in the chandelier store on Verwersstraat in Den Bosch is a very handsome man, we saw when we briefly looked at what kind of chandeliers he had in stock. And I suddenly saw us all coming home with a chandelier, even though that would look very strange in my interior.
3. Chickpeas are forever banned.
It's quite in me to search for where we need to sleep, eat, and drink. I can also cover this up under the guise of work, so this year I took it on with love again. Only I have now taken them to restaurants with a high chickpea content (read: falafel and hummus) for two years in a row, and now I have a permanent chickpea ban.
4. About men with full heads of hair.
Now that we are past thirty, you suddenly talk about men with full heads of hair (they are young) and men without (they are, let's say, our age). We had lunch at Pizzabar DEEG and a group of men came in (and looking is allowed) and it turned out to be really men with a full head of hair, and suddenly that was no longer our category. Silly laugh number four.
5. You walk arm in arm.
And I always know again that they are really my besties when I suddenly grab one or throw an arm around them, while I'm normally not the touchy-feely type.
6. Not so neat.
They are brutally honest if you try something on and it's better not to buy it. You notice this when they don't immediately answer the question of whether something is nice.
7. Next year is on the planning.g
We have to take autumn holidays into account to pick a date, because – oh yes, hers is already in primary school but fortunately not yet compulsory – and then you go to The Hague because that seems fun. I immediately change the name of the group app from ‘Den Bosch’ to ‘The Hague the craziest’ and everyone is immediately relieved because it still starts with ‘Den’, otherwise we would be searching for the group for the first few months.
8. The app is still buzzing a bit.
The purchased skirt and the new wallpaper are being shown, the stolen jacket in Café Reinders unfortunately is not covered by insurance and André Hazes Jr. is with Bridget., which we all didn't expect, so it probably doesn't matter much whether or not there are full heads of hair. The app is still buzzing a bit today and I love that.
How I love them.
