It was time, once again, for our annual Women's Retreat. This year we had a new venue and a different weekend (the MLK holiday weekend this time, rather than the last weekend in January). The Glen Ivy Retreat Center has closed, so we were on the hunt for a new venue. We came up with the Highland Springs Resort and Conference Center in Cherry Valley. You can read about the history of the land here from the early 1800s when the land was a Rancho - an outpost for the San Gabriel Mission, then as a stagecoach stop, then in 1927 as a health resort (complete with colon cleansing and vegetarian meals).
Today the Resort hosts weddings, retreats, conferences, and also walk-ins for lunch and dinner at the Grand Oak Steakhouse and Bar (I guess they gave up on the idea of vegetarian food....). The claim to fame, I think, are the lavender fields, but the olive trees are also beautiful. Yesterday we took a walk through the trees, by the fields and ended up at the 1100-year-old Oak Tree and a pen of sheep and some beautiful vistas.
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