Overview

Remember how those group trips were planned and as days drew near people kept
chucking and finally you had to call it off because you are the only one left? How you used to
plan for a day out with your friends in campus at the end of the semester and come then you
find you only have the fare you were sent and you just have to go home? " We'll do this next
semester." It went on and on until you completed campus without it happening? Yeah, sucks
right? Well, this is my dream holiday.

Enough with the beach. Enough with going to Paris to watch the Eifell Tower or to Egypt
to see the pyramids. Let's pack our bags and go to the woods. Pitch our tents, hunt for food,
play paintball, roast marshmallows and sleep out. A getaway with friends. Those whom you
were so close back in the day but geography and work won't let you meet. Let us catch up
by the camp fire. Reminisce the past and laugh at the lame things we did trying to show
prowess. Let us just be free, one more time.

Talks on how we thought our boyfriends then were the best thing we had in our lives
and where we are now, fully grown, each one pursuing their profession, with our families
back at home. Let us talk on where we are now staying with all we have in our homes. Lets
us brag in a proud way because we were finally able to afford the lifestyle we wanted. Let's
laugh to the days we used to screenshot pictures of clothes and shoes that cost two
thousand shillings and had to save up to get them. Lets talk of our children's funny
behaviours. Let us just laugh.

Let us be kids this time. I know the tents will be hard to pitch let us see who finishes
first. Who still holds their old habits; the paranoid one, the know-it-all and the care free. Let's
tell of the scariest woodlands stories. It would be nice having to converge in the middle of the
night to sleep together because we are scared of " quote; the lion roaring outside the tent or the
wrong turn cast holding their weapons at us, wanting to rip us apart and drink our
blood." (sorry) Let us play light as a feather. Let us document this.
Is it too much to ask that we forget our phones for the weekend? Forget that we are
wives and mothers and working? Let it be a girl's weekend getaway; and make it happen this
time.

WRITER: Natty