Food Trip Recap

Asalamu Alaykum,

This weekend, after turning the big 3-0, I went on what was dubbed a food trip, for the amount of eating we planned on doing. My friends Rehab, Samina, Lobna and I drove 5 hours (thank you fog and rain) to Boston, MA for a weekend visit with my sister Saria.

I haven't been to Boston since graduate school at BU until my sister moved there. I find so many things astonishing..that my baby sister went to college..that she graduated college..that she's in grad school (I was in grad school!) and that she left home..and she's actually growing up..she's living on her own, learning to cook..and,unbelievably, surviving away from my mom. Really, if you knew Saria, you'd be as impressed as I am. I am so, so, so proud of her. I'm surprised that she ended up in Boston like I did, but Alhamdulillah she certainly seems to like it more than I did.

By the way, I blame that on reading Jhumpa Lahiri for writing extremely depressing novels based in the city.

So it was a great weekend. I love girls trips. Husbands are awesome, but it's just not the same. Both are wonderful in their own way.

You don't stay up talking until late into the night with your husband. Okay, maybe you do sometimes...but you always do it with girlfriends. Husbands don't like to take as many pictures as we girls do. And girls are just so outgoing. We ran into old friends, and made new ones. We cooked meals together, we shopped, we ate and ate and ate, and we talked. Not gossiped of course! We just talked about what bought us to where we are, what we hoped for the future, what not to wear :) etc. etc.

Of course, being that we're girls, and we were traveling, there was a bit of friction. And the indecisiveness was over the top. "I don't know, I'm fine with anything, whatever she wants to do, I don't care what we eat, whatever you want." A group of non-decision makers don't make an effective bunch. We spent much of the time deciding what to do next, but it was still fun because we were together.


Thank you ladies for a great weekend. Alhamulilah I feel so blessed to have amazing family and friends, and opportunities like these to enjoy it all. I can never hope to match my gratitude to everything Allah has given me, but I will certainly try.

Sameera