of friends? our colleague tiffany cross has at least eight. nine of them just got back from the kind of vacation i wish everyone had a chance to take, myself included. ms. cross was in cabo san lucas, a well-deserved break with group that included jemele hill, voting rights advocate latasha brown, black writes co-founder alicia garza and msnbc's joy reid. she unwound from the daily grind by commiserating and spending at least two minutes looking like the goddess of all things. i mean, really, ma'am. this had to have been a lot of fun. but it was clearly more than that. this morning on "the cross connection" she explained what everybody came away from the trip with. >> beyonce once said that as much as she loves her husband, there is nothing like a conversation with a woman who understands you. i echo that a million times over. the truth is, it really didn't matter if we convened in cabo or cleveland.