Leather Retreat is a camp weekend held in the Maryland/Delaware area every year. Although our family has gone to every Black Rose yearly event in DC (where the organizers of this event are from), for some reason we never made it to LR.

After discussing it with our friends Lolita and Boymeat we decided this year our two groups/families would share one of the large double cabins that hold 9-10 people on each side. Our side would be the Sovereign House Cabin and their side would be the Oink Cabin. Funny thing though? with all the mud and rain, their side was much cleaner then ours? SOME PIGS YOU GUYS TURNED OUT TO BE!!! So family members Bo, Skye, DeLano and Lady D were joined by friends Dany, cookie, Uncle Jeff, Domina Z and Bridgett for one very memorable weekend.

Thursday night 7 of the 9 of us met at Bo and Skye's house for a barbecue/hot tub party

and to make sure we'd be up and out of the house at 9am. We should have seen what was coming (pun intended) as the weekend got off to a rollicking start with Lady D waking up the whole neighborhood shrieking as Bo showed her what it feels like to have the main jet on a hot tub turned on high and aimed at your private parts.

the lovely accommodations at camp

We arrived at camp on Friday at about noon and had just enough time to say hello to Boymeat before he ran off to play with someone in our cabin's front yard. We unloaded the cars into the cabin and some of us sat down on the front porch to relax. Looking over to our left we saw Boymeat had finished up his scene and was snuggling in a chair with his partner. We waved and as he waved back we realized he was not just snuggling? actually he was getting a blowjob out on the front porch! Hmmmmm we said to ourselves, this is not our mother's BDSM event! No Sir!

All kidding aside, one of the first things that struck us was that this is a much more relaxed yet sexually charged atmosphere then at any other big event we've been at. The event is put on by a 3 person group called "Community Ties" and not a club or large organization so they can do things differently. We were amazed to see that beer was actually served at the event.

provisions & ~Z~ at the cabin front door

We are happy to report that we witnessed not one drunk person the whole weekend. Everyone was extremely well behaved and respectful. Also you pretty much can do anything you want, whenever you want, wherever you want and we DO mean sexually. That makes it a lot of fun. The mood/vibe struck us as sort of 80% BDSM 20% Swinger. Don't get us wrong, we are perverts and sluts too lol... But we have to admit that the atmosphere took a little getting used to.

And so it began, 3 days of craziness that we'll all never forget. We've listed a bunch of details here and quite a few pictures in no particular order. We figured we'd try to give you a feel for the insanity and this was a good way to do it.

If this sounds like your cup of tea, we would strongly recommend both Leather Retreat and the equally popular Camp Crucible as the premiere BDSM camping events on the East Coast.

Dany & cookie

The first scene of the weekend goes to Bridgett. She did an amazing outdoor suspension with DeLano in a tree between our cabin and headquarters. He was hung horizontally and facing a setting sun, then spun like a top. It was really lovely! What a way to start the weekend!

Also when we first got to camp our Oink neighbors had their stuffed pig pignapped. However they put out an official statement saying that "the pig was only livestock and you don't get emotionally attached to livestock, furthermore they don't negotiate!" Of course this was a brilliant ploy as they took all the fun out of the pignapping and soon the pig was back on the porch. Thank God they got it back or else we all wouldn't have had the fun, peeing on the pig, rolling it in mud, and then have every car on the way out of camp squash it under their wheels!

the hulk hands make typing just a bit difficult

One of the things that got the most attention this weekend were the "Hulk Hands". This was a toy ~Z~ picked up at Target (pronounced TARSHEY of course) on the way to camp. It was 2 humongous green Boxing glove like fists that you put on and then punched people while Hulk sounds came out of them on every impact. DeLano was beaten with them. cookie got punched in the tushy with them by her "Daddy" Bo while he and Boymeat did a silly scene with her in the mud and pee. But probably the best use of them was at dinner on Sunday night when Both Skye and ~Z~ put one on each and hid them behind their back. They approached our friend Suzie Q, who teaches the art of fisting at many scene events, not to mention "partakes" in fisting scenes as often as possible!! We believe she is known as the "Fisting Queen". Anyway, The girls walked up to her in the dining hall and asked her to come over as they had something to speak to her about. They said "We hear you really like fisting? We were wondering if you'd maybe like to do a fisting scene with US and with the word "us" they triumphantly displayed their big green fists in her face much to the amusement of the hooting, hollering and clapping people nearby.

Speaking of pee, it should be noted that there was a bet that Bo and Boymeat could go the whole weekend without wasting their pee. Meaning they could find a willing "human toilet" each time the urge struck. While in theory this sounded like a fun camp activity it wasn't quite so easy to fulfill. Oh, Friday was no problem, as a matter of fact cookie had to take 6 showers that day and Bo even went so far as having people just touch his stream with their finger to keep his "streak" alive... but by about Sunday at some point the bet fell apart. Bo would like to mention that Boymeat punked first!!!!! ;)

Skye & ~Z~

Bo and Skye had to watch the gate on Friday night (everyone has chores at LR to keep costs down). And when you sit around for 2 hours doing nothing, strange things can happen. ~Z~ and Lady D came by to keep them company and somehow Bo's rendition of a bible thumping TV minister inspired Skye and ~Z~ to take on the personality of Tammy Faye Baker and sing and dance a lovely song to the tune of "Brickhouse", "It's 'his' BIG(bbbig) Hooouuuse, he's mighty mighty, so flip all your cash ooouuut!". Later Bo also serenaded us with his guitar creating a commercial for "The gayest songs in rock & roll history can be yours for just $9.98!". It must have been something in the water!

What started as a self proclaimed "lazy Dom" scene by ~Z~ with cookie turned out to be a very cathartic moment for "Daddy's little girl". ~Z~ started by throwing her legs over cookie and leisurely caning her cute backside. After a pretty intense scene, Bo got out his "Daddy" paddle and proceeded to land one well placed Bomb of a stroke on his very warmed up "little girl". With that, the flood

daddy's single tail marks on cookie

gates opened and cookie started to cry, and cry hard. This wouldn't be surprising except that cookie doesn't ever cry more then a tear or two in scene. cookie's head and shoulders were hanging off the side of the bed so Bo jumped down on the floor under her to console her and make sure she was ok. After about a minute of guttural crying and sobbing she stopped and smiled at Bo and all was well again. She remarked that she "had never cried like that in a scene before and that it felt very good to let it out".

Lolita finally collected on her TES Fest auction purchase. "You owe me a scene. I Bought you, you know!" She said to DeLano and with that, they were off to a hot wax scene in the main dungeon! She had him covered from neck to toes in wax and candles and then told him to keep still or else the candles would spill their wax all over him. DeLano told us "I felt like I was on fire but I felt beautiful. You rock, Lolita!" At one point DeLano waved to cookie and Bo who were passing by but De"Slutto" has no memory of that.

this pic has not been touched up, this may win "butt of the year" honors!

A hot Friday night started when Skye lashed Dany to a pole in the cabin with some impressive rope work and then flogged, whipped, punched and tickled her senseless. Later Skye and ~Z~ decided to hog tie Dany with saran wrap and take her knife play virginity.. This was a great night but little did Dany know this was nothing... wait till Saturday!

Saturday's scene was wild!

a naughty girl licks off the ice cream

The girls grabbed Dany and wrestled her down to the bed. They sat on her while Skye Bound her down and then took turns marking the shit out of Dany's ass. They caned it, they punched it, they did an awful lot to it! Then the "super evil twins" decided it would be fun to

there is some ice cream under here too

duck tape Dany into the shower stall in the shared cabin bathroom. They also smeared ice cream *all over her* front side and back and then invited cookie, to crawl in and lick it all off of her. When all was said and done that was one of the hottest scenes of the weekend. Dany was rewarded over the weekend with being allowed to give ~Z~ a foot, leg & back massage and Skye a full Body massage.

Skye ready for action

Skye & Z corralled Neptune at about 2am and received a private Florentine Flogging lesson from one of the best teachers you'll ever find! Neptune is just the best... he's the nicest, the sweetest, the classiest, the... OH COME ON... he CAN'T be THAT good!! We are going to find the dead bodies in his basement someday I tell you!! ;)

The Witches of Sovereign House scene with Lady D was pretty awesome. Lady D got her first taste of 2 girls topping her with a very "hot" burning at the stake scene with saran wrap Bondage, candles & cigarette play. You know... I was just saying last week that you don't see enough good "burning at the stake" scenes these days.......

Skye, Dany and ~Z~ took a long walk around the lake looking for a supposed haunting that is said to inhabit the camp. They didn't find anything but found themselves having a really close conversation that only a late night walk like that could have brought on.

Bridgett went swimming in full latex evening wear in the pool on Sunday. It was especially fun when she found a small frog by the pool and put it in her dress. It looked like her breasts were possessed as the frog jumped around in her latex.

name that mark (hint: it's edible)

Sometimes just about anything can be a functional BDSM toy. Someone had brought these huge twizzler licorice ropes. Each one is made up of about a dozen strands of licorice about the size of a Boot lace. Leave it to Bo to begin peeling them one by one and then using them as a whip on various people. He'd take one and say "I whip you and then I eat it!" and then he'd do just that.... over and over.... No one ever said Bo was a well man!

Pamporium slut gets a back massage

Skye and ~Z~ were Pamporium sluts! The Pamporium is a place where people go to get Body massages, foot rubs, sensual waxing, Boot blacking etc. They even went to DeLano's foot rub station twice over the weekend. Which makes them complete pamporium pigs since they could get DeLano foot rubs back in NYC any time they wanted!!! ;)

Amazingly Skye was able to keep ~Z~ in Boot Bondage for the entire weekend!! Well... okay.. ~Z~ just forgot her Boots and Skye lent her some... but still it sounded good, didn't it?

DeLano wishes to make a complaint. He would like to know "why in the world did my bed become the congregating area? There were so many naked butts on my bed, I could have called it an orgy and sold tickets!"

When DeLano woke ~Z~ on Saturday he was promptly jumped, pummeled, headlocked, held down and wailed on first thing in the morning! What a way to start the day! Better than the breakfast but we digress...

Skye makes cookie a cellophane dress

The weather was horrible Saturday but that didn't stop ~Z~ and Skye from doing scenes in our cabin. DeLano got strung up to one of the support posts in the cabin and ~Z~ went animal on him. "How am I going to keep you up there? Belt loops! Boot loops!" said ~Z~. I guess it's nice finding out that your pants can actually hold your weight. Skye also made a nice green saran wrap dress for cookie. Bo wanted his lil girl to go up to the mess hall and get midnight snacks with Lady D. But the catch was he thought it would be nice for her to have to go naked under a kimono so that should she find people she knew, she'd have to show them a "special surprise". After remembering the "no nudity" rules for the mess hall, Skye was only too happy to help with a solution

One of the funniest moments of the weekend had to be DeLano channeling Charles Nelson Riley and Uncle Jeff basically peeing on himself with laughter. Some of us where more prepared as we had heard DeLano's dead on impersonation before. Sovereign House has somewhat of a fetish for discussing old TV shows and their theme songs. Eventually we get around to old Sid and Marty Croft shows and the obscure "Lidsville" is mentioned and DeLano let's his best CNR impersonation rip! Well this time Uncle Jeff just happened to be an unknowing bystander and DeLano just kept going and Jeff just kept laughing. Basically CNR became our 10th camper from there on in and commented on many things over the rest of the weekend

Lady D's cutting (an L and a D in the shape of a paw)

At the casino night Bo was dealing a mean game of 7 card stud while Skye broke the bank playing blackjack. Amazingly Lady D won some money too, she beat the dealer for the first time in her life!!

Lady D got an awesome cutting that she, Bo and TES friend Dov designed about 5 minutes before she was going to get it. Turned out really great, who needs to prepare! D is very into wolves and already has ink of wolf paws on her wrist. So we incorporated the L and D of Lady D and then made the D look like a Wolfs claw. The Wolf claw ideas was Dov's and it really made the cutting extra special. Thanks Dovey Dov!!

Speaking of Lady D....

Lady D decorates the cabin

Probably the single most classic moment of the entire weekend was the cruel, inhuman, terrible, horrible, mean, way we inducted Lady D into the family! Yes only at Sovereign House do we take a loving and wonderful event and turn it into a pain inducing, stressful, nerve racking nightmare... heh, heh... heheh.... we are such sadists! To read more about this go to the full story here.

~Z~'s cane was very busy all weekend, it found cookie and Dany and even Uncle Jeff! Poor Jeff got himself a pre *morning piss* caning and then it continued after he got out of the shower. Boy... he sure seemed to be complaining!

Also ~Z~ did an extremely cathartic caning scene with Lady D on Monday morning before we all left. When Lady D Bottoms she likes to get "primal" and let out some amusingly disturbing sounds. Pretty much the whole camp was introduced to D as ~Z~ got "Medieval on her ass" in the cabin's front yard. Finally Daddy Bo came by and motioned that D had probably had enough and ~Z~ asked for ONE MORE!!! After tormenting a sobbing D to beg for "one more" over and over, ~Z~ planted a big kiss on D's butt as her "one more" much to her relief.

Well never let it be said that Bo was too upset that LR was a little more sexual then other events. After all he can honestly say he acquired oral gratification from 2 different women for 25 cents and a root beer!! Ok.. well I guess we better explain.

It was a tough job but along with Boymeat and David, Bo helped Bridgett live out one of her fantasies. Bridgett wanted to act out her younger male side and be playing in an arcade while mean men came up to her and forced her to do terrible things. Luckily the camp had an old Tron game so "let the fantasy begin". Bo walked down to headquarters and over to where he was told he'd find Bridgett and the game. Sure enough, there she/he was playing tron in a corner of the room. Bo went up to the game and and asked Bridgett /the Boy if he/she needed a quarter to play another game. Of course first he/she'd have to do something for him! The quarter was exchanged and the rubber was opened and well... you get the idea!

the famous "I hate you DeLano" smirk

THEN, after DeLano was being mean to cookie and teasing her by claiming not to have gotten her a soda that she had asked him to get. Bo calmly asked DeLano "Dude... Do you have my root beer?". Of course never being one to miss an opportunity to bust cookies chops he replied "yea, no problem... it's right here in my pocket". cookie whined... "DeLaaaaaannooooooooo that was MY root beer!!" But it was too late, as Bo calmly said "you want this root beer? well you know your going to have to do something for it". As cookie unzipped Bo's fly and reluctantly began to do her duty, Bo stopped her almost immediately and handed her the root beer. "here you are lil girl, I just wanted to be able to say I got blown for 25 cents and a root beer this weekend!!!" And DeLano, nice guy that he is added "and not only that, a FREE root beer" to which Bo corrected "well not only was it free, actually I technically stole it from the lil girl and then sold it back to her for her services" It was about this time that cookie made the face you see in the picture to your right!

DeLano's balloon hides what the arrow points at as Bo looks on

One of the high points of the weekend was the emergence of "Grand Master D!!!!". Poor DeLano, he finally does a beautiful Topping scene and we torture and tease him for days. Ah... welcome to Sovereign House (LOL). But anyway, DeLano did indeed top the lovely Ms. Emma in our cabin on Sunday night. After being one of the top rope Bottoms around for so many years it was wonderful to see DeLano venture into new territory. Not surprisingly he did a wonderful job and Both had a fantastic time. DeLano told us after that he found that "Top headspace isn't much different than Bottom headspace and he wanted to thank to Ms. Emma for being so generous with her trust, passion and energy and to ~Z~ and Skye for being so encouraging and supportive." OH and by the way... (snicker) DeLano ALSO wanted us to know: "Contrary to popular belief, I won't be going to Paddles looking for Bottoms to tie up. "Grand Master D." is purely a figment of all your sick and twisted imaginations!" Of course it is DeLano... of course it is... MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

After DeLano topped Ms. Emma they reversed roles and she had him in the main dungeon in a very dynamic suspension that allowed DeLano to play tug of war with her. It was pretty amazing as he was able to lift her off the ground and fly like he was on a trapeze.

Boymeat and Bo's scene with cookie

On Sunday Bo and Boymeat, who are cookies' two Doms did a very intense scene with her in the Oink cabin. Surprisingly this was the first time they had ever Both played with her together in an actual full scene. cookie had her arms pulled over her head, hands in suspension cuffs tied to one of the beams in the ceiling. Boymeat took the back with a single tail and Bo took the front with a flexible cat/whiskers/tomcat (what the heck do people call those things). Anyway after playing with her for a while Bo moved in to hold cookie so she could concentrate on the single tail. Bo also started to play with cookie and arouse her. The combination of the pain and the arousal and who knows what else caused a truly interesting reaction. Mild mannered cookie started to get an endorphin rush like she never had before. She started screaming YES... MORE... FUCK YES. Boymeat started to intensify the single tail while Bo held her closer and intensified playing with the lil girl's pussy. Finally the scene ended with the Boys saying "that is enough" and the lil girl saying "I can take more!!!" LOL. They all fell down on the bed and hugged together as it has been a very intense scene for them all!

Bridgett and Boymeat display the apple

Oh yes.. and the "Boy, take my apple" scene... well... how can I put this. Boymeat and Bridgett decided to do a scene with an apple, a condom, some balloons and... er... an "orifice"! You do the math. It was on Sunday in the Oink cabin with a whole bunch of us cheering them on.

After it was all over, "EVE ATE THE APPLE" (okay it was in a condom and she did wash it)

Bridgett eats the apple

Boymeat says that Bridgett is the "kinkiest person he's ever met". Coming from Boymeat that is one hell of a statement! I know Bridgett takes that as a supreme compliment. We are all really glad that Bridgett stayed in our cabin. She is a really wonderful and unique person that we're really glad to be getting to know better over the last few years!!!

Lady D does the happy dance

And finally we will close this wonderful recollection of events with Lady D doing a happy dance. After all what better way to close such a happy group of memories then with a "happy dance". Having a leather family is all about being with people you care about, doing things you like to do, in an atmosphere where you won't be chastised for being yourself.

We thank Frazier, Greg, Lori and the whole LR staff for putting on a great event where we can have this kind of fun. We also thank Lolita, Neptune, Boymeat, Barbara Nitke, David, Kate and the whole "Oink" group for being our friends and sharing the other side of the cabin with us.

And finally we thank our good fortune that we have been blessed to have found each other and all our wonderful friends.