The Gilmore Girls Group

In anticipation of the Gilmore Girls revival last weekend, some friends and I got a hotel room so we could get away from our responsibilities and binge-watch the series.

Check-in was at 4:00. My friends couldn't come quite that early, but I decided to take advantage and head to the hotel for a couple hours of solo time. When I arrived at the hotel, I was surprised to recognize the lady at the front desk. We frequent the same neighborhood park, and she's a person that I just happen to see everywhere (we all have those people, right?)

I debated pretending not to recognize her, but I realized rather quickly that that wasn't going to play out. She pulled up my reservation and then said, "Don't you live, like, five minutes from here?" That led me to confess that I was there to watch TV. She thought it was awesome and insisted on a high five.

We had some technical difficulties with the TV... it didn't work, so Front Desk Lady got us a new room. Then we had some more problems, and my friend's husband had to come help us get the laptop connected so we could watch Netflix on the TV. We started a lot later than planned. We got through two episodes. I had to keep standing up and doing lunges to stay awake. We also had a brief intermission to do facial masks, which resulted in this amazing photo:

 

(Those are my grandpa's sweatpants)

Things went a little unexpectedly with the masks, though. They were menthol-y, so it felt like we'd rubbed Icy Hot on our faces. We couldn't keep our eyes open because they were burning and watering. When I washed my mask off, my face looked like it had been sunburned where the mask had been. No one else's did. I guess I'm just special!

In the morning, I woke up at 5:00 and sat in the dark by myself and read for four hours. Then we went down to check out the continental breakfast where we found out that we had become famous. People knew we were "The Gilmore Girls Group." (Apparently Front Desk Lady was really excited about us, as she asked any woman who walked through the doors and looked the part if she was with the Gilmore Girls group).

We were able to squeeze in one more episode before check-out, which left us to watch the final episode in our own homes.

After I got home, I got a text from my friend. Her husband had stayed up all night and watched all four episodes of the Gilmore Girls.

We got a good laugh over the fact that he beat us to the finish!