The Retreat

So as some of you know, I'm in the enrichment counselor in one of two RS in my ward. Saturday we had our quarterly activity up at Smith and Morehouse reservoir. (note to self... smith and WESSON is a gun... wesson oil is for cooking, smith and morehouse is a reservoir). Ok. now that is straight. Anyway, we had about 50 women show up over the course of the day. We had hiking (not me, silly- others did it), card making, pool, ping ping, Wii, food, swimming and more food than was necessary!

We also had some lovely visitors in the form of a dead critter on the deck when we first got there and a lovely assortment of bugs and spiders. But my favorite was the snake I almost stepped on as I was going to look at the grill! aaahhh! You know how I feel about snakes so you can imagine my horror and sounds/possible responses to that situation. My dear friend, Bernadette, just about killed herself laughing. For those of you who know my family, Aunt Josephine came to mind. :/

Anyway, as I was working through the post traumatic stress of said event, we went to the "lake" to take in some sun. It was beautiful and I had another little nature friend come for a visit. you can see the pics. All in all, it was a good day. The sisters had a great time and that was the most important part!