Final Full Retreat Day (September 22, 2026)

 

Last full day at the retreat house. I had a friend join me for my run! Ro came with for my mile, we did the same route I did the day before, it was my favorite. We didn't go all the way down to the lookout cuz we needed to get back for yoga, but we did get to see the sheep. 

I watched these paragliders during our yoga time, so peaceful. 

Our word for this session was Meraki μερακι

which means doing something with passion and creativity 

After yoga I got my laundry going and we had a silent journal time where we were also invited to pick out a paint by number. 

After some time a car load and I drove into town to the pharmacy before it closed for their early evening closing time. Passed some chickens! 

 

When we got back we did a little drone yoga for one of our leaders for her PR :-) that was fun. Then we had a real afternoon yoga session. 

The focus of this yoga was partner yoga, I got to be with my roomie: Jaime. The word for this session was parea παρεα 

which means community or close-knit group of friends

 

Little photo sesh after yoga as it began to sprinkle. 

I finished up my painting while others continued to work on theirs. Then we got dressed for our final night in. We had a blue and white dress theme, a personal chef was hired to come in and cook for us and we had a deeper reflection time where we shared joys we saw in each other the past week. 

 

  

Beautiful sunset. We started outside, but the forcast was showing rain and we could see a storm coming. (this is the resident cat we named Fred) 

Photos with each other :-) 

  

    

Dinner started outside, the appetizers. The chef warned us to save room but we all wish we would have had more of this because the main dish was kinda bland....

  

  

  

Moved inside before the rain started. Had a dance party while we waited for the main course. Which was a rice dish and boiled chicken. The dessert was amazing though! Loukoumades is what's it's called they are little greek donuts. 

Fred wishing he could come inside and hiding from the rain. 

This marks the end to a wonderful, amazing, much needed reset of a yoga retreat. 

First Half of August Random

 

The Saturday after we got back from our trip we did a YMCA's Parent Night Out. Dropped the kids off for swimming and pizza and Kyle and I had a date night. We hit another Escape Room. This one was the Under Pressure one. 

I had a race I'd signed up for to take place September 11th and had been trying to swim regularly... well goal was once a week.. this was second week of August, Mary woke up bright and early and came with me. This was probably the only time I swam in August, oops, well one of two maybe. Needless to say I didn't train for the race as I had planned. Then ended up getting sick and was pretty weak for the race (swim and run - not a triathlon). 

Getting in some fun time before school started. Making glitter, color changing slime. The glue changes color when it hits sunlight, so that was fun. 

Thomas and neighbor friend, Rosti, playing some bean bags. :-) 

Saturday August 14th we finally made it to Mark Arts. Which is an art gallery that is never open when Kyle and I want to go alone. They had a family day so we attended to check out the gallery. They also offered a yoga session. In the hot hot sun, lol. Mary did it with me and did pretty well for being 30 minutes and straight sunlight. 

Game time with the boys. 

The kids had all won free mini-golf coupons for their summer reading challenge at the library. So that Saturday evening we got in a round of 18 holes. 

 

Finished the day off with some Andy's. 

Sunday August 15th we went to the zoo. Took a ride on the tram. 

This didn't last long, but was curious if I could put a leash on the chickens, lol. I had come across Harpo's old harness... it WORKED, Bernadette didn't like it, lol. 

Monday, August 16th we made a 1:1 trip to Exploration place, just me and Thomas since the kids were back in school. 

And since the kids are in school we were able to have some alone time to work on an art project he got for his birthday. :-)