There is nothing more that girls need every now and then is a good multi day event with each other to see how one and all is doing. Forget it guys, this isn't about girls sharing beds, with pillows and fluffy chocolate fights, back to reality
This is about how actually cathcing up with each other if you have known each other for a long time isn't settles with just having a coffee together. It is getting past the phase of formalities of how is work, how are the kids, and is your bf still such a dick with the simple replies of yeah work is fine, yeah the kids are still lack of sleep, and the bf is still a dick. Small talk and chitchat I would call that, but the reason is why you are good friends, is because you get beyond that phase with each other.
Dudes do this different from the people who I know. They take a big table, some beers, some food and talk about life maybe pretend like they all are professional DJs, or set up the playstation for some good rounds of FIFA. Girls do this different. We take out our most terrible PJs, buy a ridiculous amount of chocolate, add some wine in there but also heaps of tea, ditch the make up and talk from out beds all night. I don't know why this is, but it has always been like that, in whatever country I have lived.
And even though in our younger years we would do the same concept but then with going out fitted there somewhere in between, the rest of the recipe stayed the same. Talking from bed, unjudgemental and actually trying to see what is going on on the other side of the table from you. Get past the shallowness of the normal stuff and have an idea about life.
Personally I love this stuff and would cancel everything to value these kinds of things. I guess there are reasons why you are friends for 20 years already :D