Spa-father

Before the holidays, a few of my girlfriends and I got together to watch the wonder that is "Little Women".  It was perfection, right up until I suggested we follow it up with "Ghost".  NEVER watch Ghost if you haven't seen it already.  It's super lame and not worth it.  Ugh.  Anyways, after the movies, we got to discussing "The Godfather".  I had purchased the trilogy on VHS at Goodwill because I wanted to someday watch it.

My external reasoning was that it was a classic that everyone should see.  My internal reasoning probably had something to do with all of the lines that Tom Hanks quotes to Meg Ryan in "You've got mail".   "Go to the mattresses", "Leave the gun, take the Cannoli", you know...

Anyways, that started things rolling and we decided to have a Godfather watching party in the new year.  But all of us weren't actually sure we would enjoy the movie, so we decided instead to have a "SPAfather" night.  A girls night with soaking, scrubbing, nailpolishing and lotioning.  You know.  At least that would make things bearable if the movie was terrible.  And oh boy, the movie was terrible.  We hardly watched it until the last 1/2 hour or so.  And by that time, nothing in the epic plotline made sense to us because all we had done for the first 2 hours was paint our nails and talk over the movie.

It was pretty much a blast...

The spread: cotton balls, nail polish, files, buffers, cuticle trimmers, bath bombs, lotions, vaseline, epsom salts

The feet soaking tubs for all

The hot, steamy towels, delivered with tongs

Biore strips galore, with Joel saying "Shhhh, don't put this photo on the internet"

Cucumbers for the eyes (also effective for blocking out disturbing scenes of domestic violence)

Gross lotion feet and feet soaking in the background

Nail stickers for french tips, with a tiny glimpse of "The Godfather" in the background.  Yep, that's pretty much as close as we got to watching it.  Actually, I think this photo was taken during a completely ridiculous scene that led to a discussion about anatomy that I won't go into detail about here, because I don't want to come up on any raunchy google searches.  But for all of you who left early, you missed out on a fascinating scene.