Girls’ Night Out at the White House

I am blessed and honored to be a part of a fabulous group of women who all live and work here in D.C. We get together quarterly for ‘Girls’ Night Out,’ events where we take full advantage of living in this fabulous city that is our nation’s capitol. Last night we had our final GNO of 2010, and we ended the year with a flourish by visiting the White House for the Christmas Open House. It was a lovely evening after these days of bitter, freezing temperatures it was in the 40′s. We walked through the East Wing admiring the decorations and snapping photos every now and then.

There was a live band playing Christmas music and there was an air of happy festivity.

After our White House tour, we walked across the street to Old Ebbet’s Grill for dinner. For each Girls’ Night Out, one member takes on the task of purchasing gifts for everyone. Last night it was Kim’s night to shine. When we arrived at our table, there was a gift bag and a small, white pastry box tied with ribbon at each place setting. While we enjoyed our appetizers, Kim asked each person to look on the tag that was attached to each bag and read the number. As each woman read the number on her bag, she had to sing ther verse to the song, ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ that went with that number. I drew the number seven, so my verse was, ‘seven swans a swimming.’ Then we opened our bags to find a Christmas tree ornament adorned with that number and an image, mine being a swan. We also got a bottle of sparkling wine and Godiva chocolates.

We enjoyed a lovely supper laughing and chatting and catching up with each other. One of the women recently got married in October, so we celebrated her, and we debated some of the hot topics of the day and just enjoyed each other.

I love my sister-girlfriends and I look forward to our next event, which is scheduled for some time in March.

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