Ellery has been obsessed with "sleep away camp" for a while now. Alan's mother went to an all girls camp in Texas, Camp Mystic, and now our niece goes there too. Alan grew up going to camp Longhorn (he has already taught Ellery the Longhorn camp song.) On any given day, Ellery can be found packing her bags and pretending she is going to sleep away camp. The truth is that it will be a while before Ellery ventures off to whatever camp she ends up going to. 
One day last August, I was reading our Church bulletin and I came across a Parish Retreat to Kanuga. I was curious...I made a few calls and signed us up. The girls were insanely excited to go to sleep away camp - they asked about it for weeks, counting down the days.
Kanuga is a conference center affiliated with the Episcopal Church. In all honesty, we were a little unsure of what we were getting ourselves into. Were we going to be holding hands and singing cumbaya all weekend? Were we going to spend the day praying together? What would we be doing?
In the end, we had a great time. We arrived and were greeted with cocktails and a sunset (gotta appreciate the Episcopalians love of wine.) We had a great time playing bingo, canoeing, hanging out, hiking, having a beach party, enjoying the D.J., watching our kids dance and dance and dance and have the times of their lives. We ended the weekend with a short service Sunday morning overlooking the lake. It was peaceful, relaxing and rejuvenating.
Of course, I was having so much fun I forgot to take pictures!
Maybe next year?
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