Highlights from WOA 2015 - Saturday!

Lots of moving parts on this day!  Months and months of planning came down to this .... Ensuring that women got their choices and were in the right spots!!  We had some pretty incredible women! One group actually instigated a 6:30 AM Boot Camp out on the front field!! I heard that many showed up!  Here was their picture!

Bell rang at 8:20am.... Coffee bar was running full steam since 7:30am .... We all ate and were out at our workshops by 9:15 .... Here is a peek of many of Saturday's workshops!

Falconry came to us this year!! Hello baby barn owls!!!!

Mountain biking (kind of a cheat pic as this was Sunday's class too)....

I loved having my friends here this year .... Definite highlight!

Gina even did a great job teaching the knitting class!

Splatter Paint class ....

Canning and Preserving!  Kelly brought her mom!! Look at the campers faces ... They loved her!  Look at her!  She could care less that I'm trying to get her to smile for the camera!!

Tea party ... Not sure why this was so popular ... Totally not my gig, but neither was canning and it was a hugely popular one! (Again, this was a Sunday class that's getting squeezed into this post)

While classes were going on, Chris and Isaac were working hard getting the floating lanterns ready for that night's event .....

Pretty sure it was almost 200 lanterns that were created.....I was ready to turf the idea because I didn't think that it was worthwhile, but Chris definitely knocked it out of the park!!

here is a quick shot of the beautiful pilgrimage lantern path that he created for the women after Joyce talked about her trip to the San Diego El Camino trail.....

It was a lot of work for a very short amount of time but after the last lantern was sent off into the water, I turned around and looked up towards the camp and it was a ghost town!!  It was so windy and it was quite late as well but it appeared that most of the campers were tired and had all gone to bed!! I had to laugh.  But I was still pretty energized so I grabbed Marla and Elizabeth and we had a hot tub into quite late into the evening (at this point I was quite thankful I didn't have to sit in the hot tub with 10 other women .... Love having our own)

Couple shots from Saturday afternoon and the dessert buffet: 

One funny thing about this dessert buffet is the kitchen staff put out dinner plates for the women to put their desserts on, which I thought was totally crazy because I know women and desserts so I swapped them out for the tiny plates and we barely had enough everybody still!  Women can be quite skilled in piling food on a small space!!! It was all unbelievable food though I don't blame them .... However, the kitchen staff did watch with wide eyes as they watched the women go through, piling their food on the plates, as they had fed them a very large meal only an hour and a half earlier!!!

So that was the end of our first full day ..... Not a ton of pictures of my husband - he is always so busy running around and making sure things are happening, but I really wanted to make sure that he had down time this weekend and wasn't running frantically teaching all the classes in every single block.  So he led the Mt. Bolduc hike on Friday afternoon and caving on Saturday afternoon .... the other classes were open blocks for him but he continued to still do things for the women's weekend adding nice touches here and there!  He is such a great partner for me ...