Family Retreat

This past weekend we went to Coker Creek Village Adventure and Retreat Center (I memorized that one). We had a wonderful time of fun and fellowship. It only rained on us once, but more on that later. Here's some pics.

On the way there we stopped at the Mayfield Dairy, took the tour, and had some ice cream.

Then we stopped at Hunters Cafe in Sweetwater for lunch. Yeah, I know, don't say anything.

Then we got there and took it easy.

Then we tried to dance some to Dean Martin.

(Do you know what she's doing here?)

We played forehead, Mexican train, and old maid a lot.

This is the house we stayed in. It was set up to be used as a bunkhouse that could fit 25 people, so 12 people got that all to themselves. The house was built in the 1800's, and a lot of it still looked like the 1800's.

This is the sort of bunk we slept in (very creaky).

Here are some pics of the first nights campfire. They are in no order at all, they're just there.

The second day we took a hike to Coker Creek Falls (more like cascades). It was a very beautiful area and trail. Here are some pics.

The beginning of the trail.

This is where at the end of the hike, that is, the beginning of the trail, Claire and Luke went in the creek a little bit.

There was a small gift shop that didn't have much in it, but it was fairly good any way.


This is half of us. The rest were staying at the house instead of going to the gift shop, or taking the picture.

Coker Creek was a large gold area. Some guys were there with this machine working on getting the ore and they let me take their picture....okay, not really.



This is the "real" thing.

Now, at the beginning of the post, I mentioned rain. Apparently when it rains there it rains. We had some rain on the second night, and a good thing it only rained once. It ended up the house had a few leaky spots. So before we went to bed we moved some bunks and strategically placed a few trash cans.

You just look at that and think "I don't believe that house is leaky", right?

Well, I'll stop there, I've kept you long enough.

Kyle B.