Why a girls getaway is important?

We, the babes, ( look at the audacity of calling ourselves that) just got back from our trip this monday and we had a really awesome trip.  

Keep guessing the location, that we went to, which I plan to reveal shortly.  ( just to keep you all, my readers wondering!!)

But before I put together the experiences of the wandering souls, I wanted to tell you all why it is important for the girls to getaway in the first place.

1. Bonding – Not that we girls need to get away someplace to do this,  but when you live together for few days, there is an intimacy that we get to experience which beats every other short get together's.   We get to know the sleep cycles, fitness schedules – didn’t help coz we never even gave fitness a thought during the holidays, eating habits, bargaining skills, technical capabilities with gadgets, posing skills, organizing abilities and why, we even know each other’s weird potty behaviors and menstrual cycles.  Over all these, we really bonded over small talk, deep conversations and mindless prattles.
2. Laugh for no reason –  Each of us have varying range of laughter – the loud gurgling laughter that is mine, Sudha’s Guffaw, Rosy’s belly laughter and the modest of all, Jay’s chuckle.  We can see something together and laugh heartily in our own special ways, and you see laughter is the best medicine.
3. Get away from real life for a short while – All the 4 of us play different roles in our personal and professional lives like every other woman around the world and its our second nature to multitask and play these roles to a T.  There are also times these roles overwhelm us and we may not even show it out to the others including family.  The Girls trip is a perfect getaway to forget all our roles briefly and just hang out with the soul sisters just to rejuvenate each other in order to get back to reality and live it all up to the expectations of the loved ones.
4. Do mindless stuff -  Yes Yes Yes.  This is the perfect opportunity for us mothers not to worry about being role models to our little ones and big ones, and do stuff which suits our whims.  Like for example, taking pictures, plonking on the middle of the road.  Having a conversation over a bottle of homemade brew of wine, or just laugh our heart out listening to stories.
5. Understand how much we mean to each other -  yeah we know, we mean a lot to each other.   But there are moments in a trip, which will make this evident and the love shines through.   Like for example, when we met Rosy at the airport we were jumping in a huddle, screaming our heads off, our guide was kind of taken aback.  Nyugen our guide had a few intimate questions to us after she saw us do that.  There are also incidents which showcased our love for each other and I will let the girls do separate blogs on this.
6. The girls are worth it – for all the hard work we put round the clock all around the year at our workplaces and at our homes, we deserve this break and we need to do this at least every year, if not more frequently. The memories we create are a little gift to ourselves and fuels us to go through life unabated, and keeps us looking forward to the next one to come.
7. Feel empowered – When you prove to yourself that you are capable of some new learning and new ways of working things out, empowerment is on its way.  Travelling with a bunch of girls and doing it in a poised way, gaining knowledge about other cultures, going around this universe makes you realize, how small and insignificant one is.  And that is empowerment in itself.   While the girls getaways are common, we still have people around us who cannot do it for various reasons, and there also ones who can do it and the simple verdict is travel, and especially travelling with girl gangs makes you feel empowered.  Just the sheer act of surviving a new place, new culture around unknown country men gives that empowerment.
8. Enjoy the nature  - Ah, how I can I ever explain this.   Nature is intrinsically  adorable and there is mother nature who will surprise you venerably with her astoundingly vibrant beauty.   The more you enjoy nature the more you want to be one with her.   Atleast this time, the girls were mesmerized by the voluptuous natural beauty of the location we chose, offered us and we are still in a daze.  Good enough reason to get away with girls.
9. Talk about absolutely anything and anyone – Uninhibitedly  chatter away about work place friends, our children, our other friends, our spouses, our dreams, our fears and this list is endless. 
10. Root for each other – The best of the things that happens in a girls trip is how we highlight the positives of each person, from our physical appearance to our talents, our interests in life, accomplishments, our cooking, organizing, tactical abilities in every conversations that we have.   It could simply be how well someone can pose for a stunning photograph at the right angle to highlight the right curvatures or probably the ability to manage all the photographs in a cloud platform, without making a hefty payment for storage 😊

So, my question remains.

Which location do you think we chose this time. 

Post script :

For the first timers here, we, the group of 4 ladies, who call ourselves, babes, purely because we are narcissistic, went earlier to Banglok in the year 2017 and then to Bali in 2018.