Spiritual Retreat in Los Osos, California

Last weekend we headed out of town for a spiritual retreat in Los Osos, California. Rob has been wanting to organize a spiritual retreat for some time and the pieces fell into place so that we were able to have one!

The "theme" and activities were planned for Rob. One of his seminary classes focused on the Spiritual Disciplines and one of the projects was to plan a spiritual retreat curriculm. This worked out perfectly and Rob decided to focus on Solitude & Silence.

We headed out of town on a Friday afternoon around noon. Our friends Andi & Joe, Amber, Rob, and myself piled into a van borrowed from a friend and headed out to California. It was a 9.5 hour drive but it flew by. We had fun driving through L.A. trying to see if we could spot a celebrity (we didn't). We stopped for dinner at a Mexican restaurant right outside of L.A. and then finished off the last 2 hours of the drive.

We meet our friend Barry at the house that night around 10. He had joined us from Cananda! That night, we settled in and most of us went straight to bed. We woke up the next morning, had breakfast, then headed up to the upper deck for our first study. We had a time of quiet time with God and search for passages in the Bible were God talks about the value and importance of rest.

We ate lunch outside on the upper deck and then headed out check out the town. We took a walk around Morro Rock in Morro Bay (original, right?) :) Then wandered over to Montana del Oro State Park and took hike to the cliffs overlooking the ocean. There were some mountains in the background, it was really green, and the fog started rolling in. It reminded me of Hawai'i! We headed home tired and suprisingly sunburned! The weather was so cool and we spent so much time outside, we didnt even think that we might get sunburned...but we all were!

The next morning we all slept in much later. We got up, repeated the same routine as the morning before, and in the afternoon headed out to check out a couple of wineries. The first winery we went to was actually the first winery Rob and I ever went to! It was fun :) We checked out on other winery and then headed back to town. We wanted to check out a local seafood restaurant so we did that, but not before Andi and Amber found this amazing taffy shop and bought lots of taffy!

The drive home wasn't as quick as the drive to California bc we were tired but very relaxed and rejuvanted from the weekend. It was wonderful. God is good and it was great to spend time with Him.