This past weekend I had the opportunity to go with 81 women from church to H@ Long Bay for a retreat. It was so awesome to get out of the city and breathe fresh air! Ha Long Bay is about 4 hours away from church. We left on Friday at 1pm and arrived at 5:30pm. The difference between the two cities is crazy! We stayed in Paradise. No literally the name of the hotel is Paradise Suites and it was really a Paradise. It was a five star hotel in my books and the food was AMAZING!
Oh My this bed! It was so comfortable!!! It felt like sleeping on a cloud! It was hard to get up in the morning. LOL
During the weekend we had a guest speaker from Canada. She shared some of her amazing testimony and it was awesome! It spoke to every women. It was great to hear a personal account of how another woman has struggled and it makes you draw similarities. God really moved this weekend.
On Saturday we also had a little bit of free time. I decided to go to the beach with a couple of ladies I met. I was so excited to go to the beach! It is just so peaceful and the perfect time to relax and read. I also swam in the bay, but once I saw a dead fish I was done and decided it was time to lay out and read.
Finally made it to the beach!!! The hotel had its own private beach so we had it all to ourselves!!!
Saturday night, we went back to the beach for a BBQ. The hotel was amazing and set up a beautiful banquet for us. The food was delicious (we probably ate $170 worth of food) and the worship was awesome. It was so great to worship God under the stars with other women. God is amazing!
I really hope I can return to H@ Long Bay sometime while I am here. It is a nice beach and the lovely hotel gave us a discount for our next visit.
*A little laugh... We just got back from this amazing retreat where we stayed at this gorgeous hotel with nice beds and showers and then we get home and we spend the night cleaning out our kitchen and killing at least 10 cockroaches. Also the water in our apartment building is turned off. Nothing like a welcome home!