This weekend was our church's ladies retreat at Mt. Hermon. I heard there were a little over 100 ladies there. It was the usual schedule that was busy & lots of fun. I'm at the computer now trying to stay awake. I don't want to go to sleep before 8 o'clock!
Angie was my roommate for the weekend. Here's our room.
It was like a rustic little hotel room. Complete with spiders - a couple even in our beds -- YUCK!!!! But other than that it was great.
We went on a short walk Saturday down the sequoia trail. It was beautiful!!! I think as long as I live in Northern California I'll be amazed at these trees. 
Mt. Hermon is 'famous' for their banana slugs. Remember Jordann & her friends kissing them at their science camp? Well, Elizabeth found one but didn't kiss it. 
Here's a typical California pedestrian. lol...
There were lots of activities through the weekend. We didn't make the 5:45 am workout in the gym or the 6:30 am nature walk, or the 10 pm volleyball game. :-) But we did do the craft. We made a magnetic advent calendar.
There is a lady in the church who makes earrings and donates all the proceeds to Sisters in Service. Our speaker for the weekend was Michele Rickett, the president & CEO of SIS.
We also had a raffle. There were about 25 baskets of goodies. We bought tickets and put them in the bag for the basket we wanted to win. And I actually won one of them. It was the one I wanted, too!!! It had a warm, fuzzy robe, gift certificate for Mary Kay, and -- the best part -- a massage from Massage Envy!!! I've never had a massage before but on the drive down I was talking about how I wanted to try it because I was so sore from working this week. There were 2 baskets with massages included in them so I put all my tickets in those two!
Here's a pic of our ladies just talking & hanging out after a session.
There's an ice cream fountain at the camp that serves some really good ice cream -- Marianne's -- from Santa Cruz. We sat in front of the fireplace & ate ice cream. :-)
Mt. Hermon is 'famous' for their banana slugs. Remember Jordann & her friends kissing them at their science camp? Well, Elizabeth found one but didn't kiss it. 
Too slimy for me!
Here's a typical California pedestrian. lol...
There were lots of activities through the weekend. We didn't make the 5:45 am workout in the gym or the 6:30 am nature walk, or the 10 pm volleyball game. :-) But we did do the craft. We made a magnetic advent calendar.
There is a lady in the church who makes earrings and donates all the proceeds to Sisters in Service. Our speaker for the weekend was Michele Rickett, the president & CEO of SIS.
We also had a raffle. There were about 25 baskets of goodies. We bought tickets and put them in the bag for the basket we wanted to win. And I actually won one of them. It was the one I wanted, too!!! It had a warm, fuzzy robe, gift certificate for Mary Kay, and -- the best part -- a massage from Massage Envy!!! I've never had a massage before but on the drive down I was talking about how I wanted to try it because I was so sore from working this week. There were 2 baskets with massages included in them so I put all my tickets in those two!
Here's a pic of our ladies just talking & hanging out after a session.
There's an ice cream fountain at the camp that serves some really good ice cream -- Marianne's -- from Santa Cruz. We sat in front of the fireplace & ate ice cream. :-)
4 comments:
Fun! I missed our retreat this year, we had a big wedding I wanted to be at! Congrats on winning the basket! Fun!
I was trying to figure out the part about the messages and finally decided that maybe you intended to say "massages"!
Hey, I just looked at your etsy store. I like your banner; who did it?
Ah man, i'm jealous... MaryAnne's is the BEST icecream!
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