Retreat!
Well, I have returned from the Seekers fall retreat, and it was amazing. It felt so good not to have to depend on anybody, and to get out of the house and do something fun for more than a couple of hours. I learned a lot and met some new friends. It also helped me keep my mind off of my break-up with Zach, which was nice. The worst thing to do after something like that happens is to sit inside by yourself and do nothing but think.
Friday night we all met at the Webber Street center, piled into six cars, then drove up to Silver Cliff Ranch which is just beyond the Mount Princeton Hot Springs (near Buena Vista). It was too dark to see the scenery on the way up, but the mountains are gorgeous around that area. There were only about thirty of us there at one time, so all of the girls shared one cabin, and all of the boys were in another.
I'd been on retreats before, but this one was really neat because it wasn't completely structured. They figure that because we're college students, we can take care of ourselves and be responsible for our actions. There was no bedtime, so everyone was in the hotsprings pool till after 1:00 in the morning and it wasn't a real big deal if you slept through breakfast the next morning. Discussions were also predominently student led, which helped a lot of us get more out of it then just being preached to.
We played several really crazy games up there. First off, there was this game where everyone had to get down in a crab-walking position in their socks, and try to take other people's socks off before someone took theirs off. It was riddiculous. Then there was the new and improved version of "chubby bunny" where the participants listened to the song Roxanne by the Police and every time they heard her name they had to stuff a marshmallow in their mouth, and every time they heard "red light" they had to take a swig of Mountain Dew. It was so gross. Then there was my personal favorite: We had 20 minutes to carve a national monument out of a block of spam. My team made the Statue of Liberty. It was pretty awesome.
I've got several pictures from the retreat, some of which can be viewed at the following address:
http://uccs.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2001008&l=d7f36
Friday night we all met at the Webber Street center, piled into six cars, then drove up to Silver Cliff Ranch which is just beyond the Mount Princeton Hot Springs (near Buena Vista). It was too dark to see the scenery on the way up, but the mountains are gorgeous around that area. There were only about thirty of us there at one time, so all of the girls shared one cabin, and all of the boys were in another.
I'd been on retreats before, but this one was really neat because it wasn't completely structured. They figure that because we're college students, we can take care of ourselves and be responsible for our actions. There was no bedtime, so everyone was in the hotsprings pool till after 1:00 in the morning and it wasn't a real big deal if you slept through breakfast the next morning. Discussions were also predominently student led, which helped a lot of us get more out of it then just being preached to.
We played several really crazy games up there. First off, there was this game where everyone had to get down in a crab-walking position in their socks, and try to take other people's socks off before someone took theirs off. It was riddiculous. Then there was the new and improved version of "chubby bunny" where the participants listened to the song Roxanne by the Police and every time they heard her name they had to stuff a marshmallow in their mouth, and every time they heard "red light" they had to take a swig of Mountain Dew. It was so gross. Then there was my personal favorite: We had 20 minutes to carve a national monument out of a block of spam. My team made the Statue of Liberty. It was pretty awesome.
I've got several pictures from the retreat, some of which can be viewed at the following address:
http://uccs.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2001008&l=d7f36