In January, a friend from church shared information about the May Mother Daughter Retreat at Camp Hickory Hill in Varysburg, NY.  We’d never gone on any such event, and it did not have a limit of one child per mom, so I decided I’d embrace my newly acquired camping gene and sign us up.  I also told my friend Lindsay about the weekend and she signed up to join us. 

It was pretty cold and rainy as we drove down, but we met our friends at Mark’s for dinner and continued on to our destination. 

I didn’t take photos of our lodging, but our church had a large enough group that we were placed in a lovely building right next to the bathrooms!  SCORE!

We headed to the game room for a while

As we were playing games, my girls rushed to the windows.  They saw princesses walking by.  It wasn’t long before we headed up to the fellowship hall to see what was going on.

The theme for the weekend was Princesses…. since we ARE daughters of the KING of KINGS.

We played a “who am I?” game where we had to ask questions to see if we could guess who we were tagged as.

We had singing, and some games, and ice cream!

It was maybe the worst night’s sleep ever…
Having JUST gotten over the bad back I had endured for about a week, the rock-hard bunk I slept in was enough to cause me to have spasms hour after hour through the night.

My little girls and I were awake bright and early, so I took them out and around to keep the cabin quiet.

We headed back as others were rising, and then we all enjoyed breakfast at the hall.

I realized why my purse was so heavy!  Thank you, Stewart, for getting me the flashlight, etc., I may have needed.

Tab and Janessa are special buddies.

Our first assigned activity was archery.  This was a lot of fun.

We then did kayaking and canoeing.  And then Katriel met this “friend.”  (She often embraces the scary to get ahead of it.  Not a bad tactic, if it works.)

We had fun doing Nerf wars.

Katriel stayed on top of the ammo.

Lunch was excellent!

Finally it was time to zip line.  This was TOO MUCH FUN!!

Why yes.  Even my five year old tried it!

We did a few other things, including a few minutes of dress-up with friends.

I love this picture!  The Butler and Nickels ladies.