Our Bluestone Weekend

My family met at Bluestone Camp & Retreat to spend a much needed long weekend together.  My Mom and Dad drove up from SC and we drove down from Charleston, to meet in the mountains.  Bluestone Camp & Retreat is owned by the Presbytery of WV, which I work for and is a marvelous place to be.  We hiked and fished and just relaxed and soaked up the fresh air and sunshine.  Joshua loved it and has decided that he wants to live there.   There are tons of hiking trails and we spent Sunday wondering around on them.   We enjoyed the company of Basil and Fritz the dogs and Louise the horse.  We went up to the lodge on Saturday night and played “Apples to Apples” and had a funny and scary (for the girls, mom and Amanda) experience with a terrified mole. It ran around blindly for an hour before Joshua caught it with a box and Ev put it outside.  It was so scared it pooped it’s pants!!  Joshua did some kind of a tribal dance of capture!  LOL  Joshua and Ev played a lot and almost caught a fish, unfortunately there are no pictures of the “one that got away!”  On Sunday night we went down to “The Point,” which overlooks the lake and built a fire, roasted marshmallows and had a wonderful time.  Amanda and Ev played a really dirty trick on me on Monday.   We were in charge of putting out the fire and we did a good job, but were all really leery of leaving it, just in case.  Well, on Monday morning we started to see smoke coming from the area where we had had our fire, so Amanda, Ev, Joshua and dad went down to investigate.   I was so upset, thinking that somehow our “extinguished” fire had somehow been reborn in the night and caught the place on fire. Amanda comes running back up and says “It looks like we left an ember and it reignited and set the hillside on fire!!”  I almost died, I got really upset and almost started to cry, when Amanda says just joking some guys down by the river are burning debris!  I wanted to choke her!!  Not funny, well it is funny now, but not then.  I have attached the entire album and hope that you enjoy the pictures as much as we enjoyed the weekend.

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