So this past weekend, Aug 7-9th Thomas and I attended a marriage retreat with other couple from our church. We stayed at the Omni Golf and Spa Resort (www.omnihotels.com). We had so much fun together. Seeing as we have only been married for about a year we felt like the target audience for this retreat were couples with children, or couple who are so busy with life they never see each other. This was fine though, it was good for us to gather the materials and look at it as a preventative retreat- it taught us to keep our guards up from losing contact with each other and being romantic together. The main mission of the retreat was to learn how to plan a retreat so you and your spouse and relax, recreate and have some romance. Needless to say, being newly married we do not need to go on a retreat to be romantic, but we got the drift, haha.
We were supposed to come to the retreat with plans of what to do, topics to discuss, and time to spend "lighting our candles" (which I later found out was code for sex- we got to the retreat late which was when they first explained the candle lighting thing). Oh well, haha. So here was the Amos' itinerary:
Friday:
- Arrive in Tucson at 8pm
- Games and dessert 8-10:30
- Pool and Hot tub- 10:30- until the cows come home (the cows ended up coming home at 11:58pm)
Saturday:
- Breakfast 7am
- 1st Session (2nd session for the rest of the group)
- San Xavier del Bac mission house
- Lunch/ Session 2 - 12pm-2pm
- Bead Store!!!!
- Frog and Firkin for dinner- YUM!!!
- Frost Gelato for dessert
- Golf'n'stuff for batting cages, bumper boats, and of course- miniature golf.
- Arrive back at the resort: 1:45am- this was when we decided a late check would be great!
Sunday:
- Breakfast 7:30
- Worship service
- nap time/ relax time
- POOL TIME
- Lunch and the drive back to PHX.
Needless to say we were busy! But I am so proud of us. We set a budget for the retreat, and stayed under it!!! Here is a picture of our fun adventures. For soem reason my computer wont let me add more right now. Another post I guess.
At the resort, our room was right by the cabanas!!
Last reflections on the retreat: Thomas and I realized what a very unique stage of life that we are in right now. We pray that we are honoring God with all the luxuries we have been given. This retreat allowed Thomas and I to begin a much overdue discussion- we were able to have a great time dicussing everythnig too. I think we are even going to write up a family confession of faith. I think it is a cool idea, and glad Thomas came up with it. I will have to post that when we do it. Anyways, in short this weekend was very fun and relaxing. We are not enjoying having to go back into the real world tomorrow and work. Oh well. until next time...
