Saturday Woman's Retreat

Our ladies at the church held a woman's retreat.............quick sound the retreat. Sorry....................well not really, but it does sound strange. A woman's retreat, what were they retreating from you might ask. And it wasn't really what I would define as a retreat in the truest sense. We were all gathered in Ramsey Parlor. My definition of a retreat is to go away for longer then a few hours. There is a place called MO Ranch that I haven't been to yet but have heard that it is quite beautiful, relaxing and spiritually renewing. That is a someday. Anyway to get back to the retreat, it was very nice. There was a speaker by the name if Dr. Carol Stalcup who came to speak to us. She has talked at MO Ranch. The message she had was very good, but went on a little too long. When you are sitting in cold metal chairs, every minute seems like hours. The food was very good even if the serving of it was a bit chaotic. There was eight tables of seven and one table of five. Each table had its own server and the server was to bring the food to each person at their table. Well there was a miscommunication. The servers thought that they had to bring each dish out one at a time. With that many ladies it would have taken hours to get everyone served. So then it was announced that each server had to go and dish up each plate and each person had to get their own plate. There was a mad dash to the hall where the food was being dished out. The servers couldn't get to the food for all the ladies standing waiting for them to dish up their food. Everyone eventually got served their lunch but the so called caterer did not know how to count and did not make enough desserts. It didn't really matter much to me as I am trying to loose weight, but some of the ladies who got served a different dessert were not too happy. The planning and execution of this retreat left a little to be desired but it was a fun time. So I was glad I went. It also gave me a chance to get away from Mike and Sandy for a few hours.