You really can’t beat mimosas with a group of great girlfriends for a 7:30 a.m. breakfast celebration. Hey, if you need to be up early and have to celebrate the art of aging, why not do it in style with your best beach buddies?!

And that is exactly what we did before the Labor Day weekend took us all away to what would soon be our fall/winter destinations. Our one girlfriend was in such denial of the ever-fast-approaching unofficial end of summer that we toasted to “Memorial Day” by mistake!