Normally, when we have a Sisters Only weekend, my sisters and go away together. This year, however, things have been a little more up in the air. My older sister’s mother-in-law was diagnosed with a rather aggressive form of brain cancer back in February, so her family pretty much put everything on hold as they rallied together, to support her and each other in the months that followed. My younger sister and I decided the easiest thing to do for the Sisters Only Weekend would be to have it somewhere close, so in case something happened, older sister would only be a short drive away, and we planned it pretty low key, so there was no worry about having to deal with reservations, or rescheduling. Or in short, this year’s Sisters Only weekend took place in Sacramento, at my house.

Since the rule about our Sisters weekends is that no husbands or kids are allowed, Richard had to go find somewhere else to stay for a few nights. So he packed up his stuff and headed up to Monterey to spend a few days wandering around the aquarium, while my sisters and I took over our house and had ourselves a lovely time.

This is our seventh Sisters Only weekend and, despite the fact that we managed to schedule it over one of the hottest weekends in Sacramento yet this summer (it was 109 on Sunday), we had a lot of fun. We went to The Melting Pot on Friday night and consumed immense quantities of cheese and chocolate. We did our traditional “one crazy thing” by taking a tour of downtown Sacramento on Segways.

(my younger sister and I being a little goofy)

We ate lunch at the Tower Cafe and watched brain-fluff movies on DVD. We went to the California Museum in downtown Sacramento to see the Lincoln exhibit, and then braved the searing heat to go wander through the Capitol building. We played with the cats and updated our Facebook pages, and got highly overpriced pedicures. We got so sick of junk food by Sunday afternoon that we made ourselves big bowls of salad. We sat around and knit and read books and talked about all sorts of things, and had a wonderful time, and as it always does, the end came too soon.