You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey.

And I'm Erica. We're two former next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh.

We're inviting you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey, friend.

Hey, friend indeed. Yes. I feel like I miss you.

I have missed you. This is the first time we have sat across

from each other with microphones since May. Yes. If listeners can believe it, we did a lot of

recording ahead. It feels really good to be back. Yeah, really good. You may not have missed us,

but we missed each other. Yes, we really did. So please indulge us for a minute. So we are going to be talking all about working out today.

But since we're recording this on the second day of school for us,

let's just first give a quick little recap of summer and our first day of school.

So give me two highlights and one challenge from your summer and then tell me how the first day of school went.

I love this format.

Yes.

Okay.

So our summer was great. Our trip back to the Midwest was really, really nice. We have not been back to Wisconsin in the summertime, like, since we have, we have

not at all with the girls, since we've had the girls. It's, we always opt for fall or something.

Um, so it was really nice. We were there over the fourth of July. It's what we always opt for fall or something. So it was really nice.

We were there over the 4th of July.

It was just quintessential Midwest, 4th of July like we were hoping for lots of cousin time.

We did take a two-night family trek down to Chicago.

My parents are about 45 minutes from Chicago.

So we took the train down and we just like hoofed it through the city to our hotel

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