Oh I like retreats. I have so much fun and really not that much quilting gets done. LOL Maybe a couple of 'this is the only time i get to quilt' people will be hard at it.. We talk, listen, laugh, take walks, go for shopping trip to the nearest LQS, go through each other's scrap bins brought in to share, show new notions and someone is always having a demo about something they learned. I go twice a year. I'm lucky to get half the blocks made for a quilt at retreat.