Credit: I copy-pasted this post from my sister Ellen's blog and only slightly changed the journaling. Thanks Elle.
The Sisters Retreat
Before Thanksgiving, I drove to West Yellowstone to join my 3 sisters and my mom for our 3rd Annual Sisters Retreat. We like to get together, leave the kiddos with the husbands, and get away to scenic and remote condo to scrapbook.
We've stayed at Bear Lake the past 2 years and this year we went to West Yellowstone.
This year we all switched to digital scrapbooking, so no lugging paper and photos.
...lots of cords though
Here's us all working/playing away at our various computers
Abby, Ellen
Sarah, Maren
and Our Mom
Here's us all working/playing away at our various computersAbby, Ellen
Sarah, Maren
and Our Mom
No Boys Allowed!
Except Baby Ryan
Browsing through gift shops
We had dinner at the Oregon Shortline Restaurant.Inside the restaurant there is a 1903 executive train car, that has been restored (mostly with original furniture, etc) that you can tour freely. It was really cool to look through.
The view from our condo, Sunday morning the snow finally fell. Just a little though.
There was a cross country skiing conference in town that was quite disappointed.
It was quite funny to see skiers jogging down the road with ski poles. We were glad they got some fluff on the ground at least.
There was a cross country skiing conference in town that was quite disappointed.
It was quite funny to see skiers jogging down the road with ski poles. We were glad they got some fluff on the ground at least.
After we checked out we stayed in the lounge to play a game. We had lunch and played Phase 10 Twist for two extra hours. They can make us give back the keys, but they can't make us leave!
This is a list Abby and I compiled about this years sister's trip:
The same:
*Wonderful company, my sisters and mom
*Lots of good low prep food
*Plenty of junkfood and chocolate
*pepsi, pepsi, pepsi
*A few technical difficulties. My computer & I overcame our differences.
*Good movies: Becoming Jane and Princess Bride
*One really dumb movie: 'Lars and the Real Girl'. Mom officially cannot pick out anymore movies
*Josh Groban and Michael Buble
Different:
*Location: West was fun, and the internet was better
*Paperless Digital Scrapping
*More time playing together and laughing
*Mom brought the home videos of us growing up
*Hot Tubbing every night
*Actually using the exercise room a few times
*Baby Ryan: our first male guest. Perhaps the last
*More music
*All of us were married women!
*We were all mostly healthy
*We spent an afternoon browsing through the few little shops open
*A great dinner at the train museum, complete with restored early 1900s train car
Highlights:
*Definitely the train museum dinner, it was so neat
*Having Ryan to cuddle and pass around, he's such a good baby it was nice to have him there
*Our Home Videos: Who doesn't love to watch all of their old ballet, piano and violin recitals.
*Checking out of the hotel but staying in the lounge with the fireplace and playing games.
*Coming home to happy families after a great break.
1 comment:
Hmmm...Dirk and I might have to take the kids up there just for the train museum. Rayden would be having fits of joy!
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