A year and half ago, I met three lovely ladies at the Making Things Happen conference in Chapel Hill, N.C. The four of us, plus my former second shooter Emily, would go on to talk loftily about reunion trips across the country. And then we remembered that we could MAKE IT HAPPEN. Almost all of us are self-employed, and so we blocked a few July days off our calendar to travel to New Orleans, home to the talented Sarah, who was the best tour guide ever.

Yeah, it's kind of hilarious that we chose to head south during one of the muggiest times of the year (we joke that we'll be reuniting in Cleveland in January next time!), but our trip was full of all good things: company, food, historic sites, laughter, adventure. And two really cute dogs (here's one here) . :) I'm so thankful we made this happen!