Women's Retreat

So this weekend we went on the Women's Retreat with the University Church of Christ in Murrieta, California. On Friday I went to Laura's apartment and Laura, Natalie, Ashley and I left from there. We went to Chipotle first to grab dinner and man can those girls eat. We drove for two hours and when we got near the conference center we got turned around. We were so tired that we were deliriously laughing. When we stopped at the gate to the hotel the two guys at the gate couldn't understand us because we were laughing so hard, it was really funny.
We were staying at a conference center, hot springs, and a bible college all in one. It was really interesting because there were tons of women there on retreats from other churches and students were on the campus also. When we walked to our hotel room we passed the hot springs and they smelled awful. It was like sulphur so rotten egg smell, but the place we were at was really pretty and you get used to smell is what I heard, but every time I passed the springs I held my nose! haha!!!
There were about 50 women there of all ages. The oldest was probably in her 70s, maybe 80s and some women brought there babies, there were 3; they were so cute 6 month olds. The retreat was set up around stories. We had three sessions and 3 women shared their stories at each one and we sang before and in between each one. After the session we split up into small groups. My small group was okay but it was such a cry fest totally out of my comfort zone! ha! there was little too much estrogen there for me. And the singing seemed a little archaic to me, well I mean we sang out of the hold hymnals about 80 percent of the time. Totally not my style. I was kind of bored with it and when the women were saying that one thing that they liked most about the weekend was the singing I wanted to be like "COME ON, SERIOUSLY!" There was a group meeting in the room next to our meeting room and their band were practicing while we were singing sometimes. I was really jealous of their group and Laura and I joked about sneaking into their group and joining them because their worship was like home. I made me miss RH.
Then during free time Laura and I passed out, we were soooo tired! It was AWESOME!!! When we woke up we tried to find Natalie to go to Chick-fil-A but she had already gone with people to Sonic, so we went to Sonic by our selves and it was great because I missed it so much! It was nice to have a strawberry limeade!!! Then we went to dinner even after we went to sonic because we had paid for the dinner meal, but I could barely put anymore food in my mouth. I was so full! It was disgusting. We had a good last session and small group, then we split up into groups and put on funny skits of bible stories, it was kind of awkward and weird, but fun too! Then we went to bonfire and made smores by the lake! After talking with Becca a little bit I joined the girls in the hot springs.
The next day I slept thru breakfast and we packed and tried to leave, but Laura's car wouldn't start and her battery wouldn't jump. So we called Triple A but soon her dad called and asked if she would try something and it worked so we got to leave. We went to Sonic one last time for lunch, so good! Anyway that's the end of the weekend!!! It was pretty nice to be able to hang with my friends even if the retreat was kind of weird!!! :)