Mini Retreat - Day 1

 I'm a day behind, so I'm going to post twice with both days covered. 

Yesterday - 

Patrick dropped me off at Sandy's house at 6:30 am. We needed to be in Auburn, WA by 8 am - so we thought. It was actually 9 am. We ended up being early, so we sent a text asking if we were in the right place. They were on the way. The facility was awesome, but they had a manikin (sp) that looked real. It was a little spooky. So, we set up in our chairs to get to work. 

We all received a gift basket. There was chocolate in there, so that was good enough for me! I picked up a yard roll that was free. I can make more hot pads with it. It's not Peaches 'n Creme but it's just as good. 

The first "class" we had was of Blitz, our Seattle Seahawk fella! I was so into him, that I would work on him while they talked about what to do with the other embroidery lessons. 

We got started on Blitz. I'm happy to say, I had a lot of fun with this. I'm still working on him. We all worked on our classes till about 3:30 pm. Then it was off to the hotel to sign in. Once that was done, we headed out to eat at Jack's BBQ! I was so happy to be going there! I love that place. It can be loud but it's fun. We all ordered and got different things. Not one of us was upset with what we got. 

Came back to the hotel and sat to stitch in an open area on the second floor. It was nice to sit the lounge type chairs and stitch. They were having a Birthday Party downstairs while we were there. It was funny because they would come up, thinking they could sit there, finding us there, they turned around and went back downstairs. 

Sandy and Jeannette had to change rooms because the bathroom was filthy dirty. They were able to get a discount for the change as well. Sandy V and I were in another room. We were supposed to be next to each other but ended up down the hall and across the hall from them. When they moved, they ended up being closer across the hall then before. Sandy brought a pie she made. Patti from Wenatchee joined us at the BBQ place as well as stitching and eating pie. After they had pie (I passed), we went to our room and got ready for bed. I didn't work on my tablet much. 

It was a long day of Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!