FRIENDS Moment Friday

I love when you get to that magical place with a group of people where you can just relax and can be completely real with another. Real meaning the freedom to be vulnerable without fear of being judged. It's magic because those connections cannot be produced or faked. 

I really never thought I'd experience that magic outside my group of friends from high school, but about twice a month for the past year I've experienced that magic again with a great group of friends. Our intern training car :) It's been a crazy year with these friends. We've laughed and cried together. We've vented and encouraged one another. We have inside jokes, cuddle buddies, massage trains in cramped cars, and crazy conversations. We are a group of friends. And I will truly miss our times together in the car driving to and from training on Fridays.

Our group...minus Steve

"Smile and say..."

So I dedicate this Friends Friday to you...Stacy, Steph, John, Colt, and Steve, who rounds this crazy group out (and now that all of you know about this blog you better be reading it!). 

So in honor of our trip to Sandbridge and time in the car, I give this to you... 

The One at the Beach (As seen in session 3, epidsode 25)

Scene: Outside Central Perk, Chandler and Monica are waiting for Phoebe to arrive with the cab.

(Phoebe drives up.)

Chandler, Monica, and Joey: Hey!!

Joey: Woo-hoo! All right! Yeah!

Phoebe: Oh, I am having the best karma this week. First, I find this woman who knew my parents, and then my client with the fuzzy back gives me his beach house.

Ross: Yeah? What about ah, that bike messenger you hit?

Phoebe: Oh, I wasn’t talking about his karma.

Rachel: (approaching) Hey!

Chandler: Hey!

Joey: Hey-hey, check out the hat!

(She is wearing this giant straw hat, the brim on it must be at least, least foot wide.)

Chandler: Wait a minute, I know that hat! I was taken aboard that hat! They did experiments on me! I can’t have children!!

Monica: Seriously, where did you get the hat?

Rachel: Ross gave it to me.

Ross: Yeah, I think she looks good.

Rachel: Ohh, thank you.

Chandler: Buy it for ya, or win it for ya?

Rachel: Well excuse me, my fashion-impaired friends, I am here to tell you that hats are back.

Phoebe: And this time, they’ve ganged up to form one giant, super hat.

Scene: At the Beach, it’s raining cats and dogs as the gang arrives. Chandler and Monica are taking shelter under Rachel’s hat.

Ross: Go, go, go!

Rachel: Oh yeah, now everybody wants to be under this hat!

(They get inside and notice on small problem.)

Phoebe: Oy!!

Monica: What’s with all this sand? (picking a handful of sand off of the floor, which is covered in sand)

Phoebe: Oh, yeah, Bob said there might be flood damage.