silver bay 04, the train wreck edition
hooray for toys. and lake george. and presbyterians.
i guess silver bay was ok. (<--- understatement the year) the trip up was awesome. how many pyc-er's can you fit in bec's car? 3 is a good round number. plus a prom dress of course. it was an awesome start to the week. bec and aj had to wait around a bit whilst i finished packing, but we all knew that would happen. i got there to find eric braley sitting with the the young adult staff (henceforth refered to as yas's). ERIC BRALEY! i was so excited. i haven't seen him since schohaire, which was like, october of senior year. i was so happy to see him. he's exactly the same as he was a year and a half ago. i like that. i will get to visit him in the end of august when deana and i head to cape cod. it was weird, because its been so long since i've seen him, but we were as close as ever. thats what i love about my church friends. i can go for months without talking to them, and when i see them again its like we're best friends. because we are.
becca and i were finally the roommates we were destined to be. you know you love our messy room. no seriously, it was sweet. we had the extra room attached to ours just incase one of use got a little play and needed some privacy. good thing we didn't though, hmm? i guess the only question left is, 'does lauren know what you have in your room becca?' hahaha. 'why yes kris, actually it was her fake id that bought it.' thats what you should have said bec. she would have shit her pants. so yes, we may have been caught. and we got a stern talking to, and a reminder to hide it better next time. seriously, those were the words out of caroline's mouth. 'maybe just hide it better next time.' we rule.
andrew james and i enjoyed some major bondage as well. i mean. what? right. whelp. it was great to have him around, we got to catch up and talk about everything we haven't talked about in the last 6 months. that and we witnessed the triumphant return of shower girl. i'm glad he was around, to regulate on those foolish enough to attempt to grope me. eeew. we had a few awesome walks around campus too. i like walks where you don't really want to stop walking.
the rest of the staff was cool too, and this was pretty unexpected. we had a lovely evening down at the point and very many late talks on the porch. all in all a great group of kids. damn funny too.
speaking of funny, plenary skits provided quite a bit of humor all by themselves. i will now insert a directly cut and pasted chunk of the script for wednesday morning.
Johann: Excuse me I was talking….. If I hang out with people
only like me, Then..worst case…is I might actually get bored.
AND I bet I would miss some things…like Lauren…you made us get
up last week to watch the sun rise..my friends who are like me,
would NEVER do that…..and THAT was actually fun.
Tim: You got up to see the sunrise and didn’t tell me???
Lauren: Lots of extra coffee Tim. Hazelnut vanilla cream. (to
johann) By the moaning and groaning you did I would never have
guessed you enjoyed it.
yes, that is an actual line that i had to say. funny part is, the director of the conference and writer of the script didn't see anything wrong with the line when she wrote it. this is the woman who finds innuendo in cardboard lights. oooh sue. so we decided to play it up a bit and when i finished the line dan played the first few notes of lets get it on. i love last minute write-ins. plenery in general was awesome. the skits were so much fun, and I GOT TO WEAR MY PROM DRESS. pictures soon.
theres so much more that i'm forgetting. comment and remind me. it was just so much fun.
i stayed up until it was light out talking to jim on the last night. he's an incredible person. some people really are worth a second look. i don't know how many times i will have to learn this before it sinks in, but i'm glad i did. this year was the hardest one to leave. i cried so much the last day. at the point, and on the car ride home, and once i was home. i don't know what it was. or maybe i do. either way i have been in a bubble since i got home. i guess i don't quite feel like i have left the mindset completely yet. i think i don't want to.
so silver bay was amazing, and i will go back next year. hell, lets go back next week. <3
i did miss everyone from home while i was up there. and to make up for lost time, deana and i spent 4 hour lost in new jersey on friday night. welcome to greenwood lake, new jersey, home of the most confusing signs and more lit up virgin mary statues than you will ever want to see on a dark wooded road. and now i'm leaving again, to go camping in oquaga creek til tuesday with deana pete and chris. it should be great. i haven't seen pete in what feels like a long long time. it makes me anxious for school to start. but i don't want to leave home, and i didn't want to leave silver bay. this is going to be a problem. oh well. i will deal with it, or not deal with it, when the time comes. see you all in a few days!
<3, the hrp sleepgodess, the one, the only, L-boogie.
i guess silver bay was ok. (<--- understatement the year) the trip up was awesome. how many pyc-er's can you fit in bec's car? 3 is a good round number. plus a prom dress of course. it was an awesome start to the week. bec and aj had to wait around a bit whilst i finished packing, but we all knew that would happen. i got there to find eric braley sitting with the the young adult staff (henceforth refered to as yas's). ERIC BRALEY! i was so excited. i haven't seen him since schohaire, which was like, october of senior year. i was so happy to see him. he's exactly the same as he was a year and a half ago. i like that. i will get to visit him in the end of august when deana and i head to cape cod. it was weird, because its been so long since i've seen him, but we were as close as ever. thats what i love about my church friends. i can go for months without talking to them, and when i see them again its like we're best friends. because we are.
becca and i were finally the roommates we were destined to be. you know you love our messy room. no seriously, it was sweet. we had the extra room attached to ours just incase one of use got a little play and needed some privacy. good thing we didn't though, hmm? i guess the only question left is, 'does lauren know what you have in your room becca?' hahaha. 'why yes kris, actually it was her fake id that bought it.' thats what you should have said bec. she would have shit her pants. so yes, we may have been caught. and we got a stern talking to, and a reminder to hide it better next time. seriously, those were the words out of caroline's mouth. 'maybe just hide it better next time.' we rule.
andrew james and i enjoyed some major bondage as well. i mean. what? right. whelp. it was great to have him around, we got to catch up and talk about everything we haven't talked about in the last 6 months. that and we witnessed the triumphant return of shower girl. i'm glad he was around, to regulate on those foolish enough to attempt to grope me. eeew. we had a few awesome walks around campus too. i like walks where you don't really want to stop walking.
the rest of the staff was cool too, and this was pretty unexpected. we had a lovely evening down at the point and very many late talks on the porch. all in all a great group of kids. damn funny too.
speaking of funny, plenary skits provided quite a bit of humor all by themselves. i will now insert a directly cut and pasted chunk of the script for wednesday morning.
Johann: Excuse me I was talking….. If I hang out with people
only like me, Then..worst case…is I might actually get bored.
AND I bet I would miss some things…like Lauren…you made us get
up last week to watch the sun rise..my friends who are like me,
would NEVER do that…..and THAT was actually fun.
Tim: You got up to see the sunrise and didn’t tell me???
Lauren: Lots of extra coffee Tim. Hazelnut vanilla cream. (to
johann) By the moaning and groaning you did I would never have
guessed you enjoyed it.
yes, that is an actual line that i had to say. funny part is, the director of the conference and writer of the script didn't see anything wrong with the line when she wrote it. this is the woman who finds innuendo in cardboard lights. oooh sue. so we decided to play it up a bit and when i finished the line dan played the first few notes of lets get it on. i love last minute write-ins. plenery in general was awesome. the skits were so much fun, and I GOT TO WEAR MY PROM DRESS. pictures soon.
theres so much more that i'm forgetting. comment and remind me. it was just so much fun.
i stayed up until it was light out talking to jim on the last night. he's an incredible person. some people really are worth a second look. i don't know how many times i will have to learn this before it sinks in, but i'm glad i did. this year was the hardest one to leave. i cried so much the last day. at the point, and on the car ride home, and once i was home. i don't know what it was. or maybe i do. either way i have been in a bubble since i got home. i guess i don't quite feel like i have left the mindset completely yet. i think i don't want to.
so silver bay was amazing, and i will go back next year. hell, lets go back next week. <3
i did miss everyone from home while i was up there. and to make up for lost time, deana and i spent 4 hour lost in new jersey on friday night. welcome to greenwood lake, new jersey, home of the most confusing signs and more lit up virgin mary statues than you will ever want to see on a dark wooded road. and now i'm leaving again, to go camping in oquaga creek til tuesday with deana pete and chris. it should be great. i haven't seen pete in what feels like a long long time. it makes me anxious for school to start. but i don't want to leave home, and i didn't want to leave silver bay. this is going to be a problem. oh well. i will deal with it, or not deal with it, when the time comes. see you all in a few days!
<3, the hrp sleepgodess, the one, the only, L-boogie.