Retreat! Retreat!

No, I'm not calling out orders to turn back. I just have been on retreats these past two weekends.
The first, over presidents' weekend was with a dozen middle schoolers to Escape. It was a fun filled, pirate themed retreat to have fun and learn more about God. (Walk the plank to save your life!) It was great to see so many middle schoolers -- even while dressed as pirates in team colors--all on so involved in worship and hearing what Rob, the speaker had to share with them from the Word. Arrrgh! Go Team Blue!
This last weekend was a marriage retreat with Rob's unit. While it was great to focus on our relationship, get away and visit with others from the unit-- we also got to learn about "in sickness and in health."
I became really sick with a cough, stuffy nose, chills, and a fever over 103. Luckily that is mostly gone now- but Rob was quite the hero in figuring out how to get hot water for a bath from a hotel room that still had a rotary phone and plumbing probably just as old.
All in all though, as fun as retreats are, there is just no place like home.