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Weekend at the Retreat
May. 17th, 2010 02:18 pmWell, we had a really good time, so good in fact...I really wish I took today off to relax and get back in the groove. I had my laptop...I could have worked from home part of the day but I came in..le sigh.
Thursday we left about 4pm and got on the road. The drive was good and we hit no traffic or weirdness the entire way until we got about 40 miles from site. We stopped off in Blythe at the Courtesy Coffee Shoppe and it was a nice retro 60s diner. Good food and good service. Our troubles with traffic started with them closing a highway we normally use to short cut to an interstate in CA. We went further down I-10 and got directly on the I-5. We were very late compared to previous years due to leaving so late. I blame my work and my need for a chiro appointment. We now know to not leave any later than 2 pm. Its much better that way. Once we got on the i-5 we were stopped 8 miles from our hotel by an RV fire. We got past the it and a subsequent wreck and got to the hotel about 1230 am. They had our reservation goofed. I'll be talking with holiday inn about that and we finally got to your room at 1245am. Bleah. We slept okay...I was very restless and my side didn't hurt but it had pressure. Glenn fixed me really good an I felt really great after a nights sleep.
Got going with a good breakfast and got to site a bit after 10am after taking an unexpected detour. We didn't turn off at the right exit and had to turn around about 12 miles up the road. Got ourselves set up and then just relaxed. It was nice. It was odd without Bjo and John (who were in Montana for John's sister, she was dying). Had a good time and I taught 6 people how to crochet (well, one of them knew but needed help with some tricky bits). I was very happy about that and I got![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lissamc daughter, Michelle, addicted, I think. I mordanted my yarn for dyeing the next day, made 3 dryer felt balls and just chilled. I slept really well that night and had a good time working on my crochet and my knitting.
( Picture of me knitting and mordanting yarn and teaching )
Thursday we left about 4pm and got on the road. The drive was good and we hit no traffic or weirdness the entire way until we got about 40 miles from site. We stopped off in Blythe at the Courtesy Coffee Shoppe and it was a nice retro 60s diner. Good food and good service. Our troubles with traffic started with them closing a highway we normally use to short cut to an interstate in CA. We went further down I-10 and got directly on the I-5. We were very late compared to previous years due to leaving so late. I blame my work and my need for a chiro appointment. We now know to not leave any later than 2 pm. Its much better that way. Once we got on the i-5 we were stopped 8 miles from our hotel by an RV fire. We got past the it and a subsequent wreck and got to the hotel about 1230 am. They had our reservation goofed. I'll be talking with holiday inn about that and we finally got to your room at 1245am. Bleah. We slept okay...I was very restless and my side didn't hurt but it had pressure. Glenn fixed me really good an I felt really great after a nights sleep.
Got going with a good breakfast and got to site a bit after 10am after taking an unexpected detour. We didn't turn off at the right exit and had to turn around about 12 miles up the road. Got ourselves set up and then just relaxed. It was nice. It was odd without Bjo and John (who were in Montana for John's sister, she was dying). Had a good time and I taught 6 people how to crochet (well, one of them knew but needed help with some tricky bits). I was very happy about that and I got
lissamc daughter, Michelle, addicted, I think. I mordanted my yarn for dyeing the next day, made 3 dryer felt balls and just chilled. I slept really well that night and had a good time working on my crochet and my knitting.( Picture of me knitting and mordanting yarn and teaching )
