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Wow. That was definitely the best weekend ever. I did soooooooooo much and had soooooooooo much fun. On the ride up, we had to switch bus drivers because they can't drive more than 10 hours in one day. And I slept a lot. I slept in the same seat with Ben for a while, and he's pretty comfortable. At least, he was on the way up. Not so much on the way back.
The first day, there was a little bit of snow, just enough for a good snowball fight, but not enough for sledding or anything. So the guys played football while the girls took naps. Which really consisted of eating a lot of candy and going outside to watch the guys play football.
It snowed that night, and we all took the sleds and found this HUGE hill and went sledding for about 2 hours. It was so much fun. We were planning on playing bucketball, but we never did. It was so sad. :(
On Sunday, we had the most fun ever. A few of us decided to go sledding before all the snow melted. Then me, Hannah, Jillian, Erica, Sam, and Nicole were just chilling in the cabin and we started talking about who out of all the guys in youth we would want to see naked first. xD (This started because Jillian went to go get something and she said, "I love it how Everett just took his shirt off and left it here.......and his pants......?") Well yea, so I thought it was funny how everyone had the same people on their list, and I loved how Austin, the cutest sixth-grader ever to be part of our youth group was on everyone's list. I would put my list on here, but no one knows any of them, haha, so....yea. Well, during our closing thing, Michael surprised me. He's usually really quiet, and I was like, the only person he had talked to the entire trip, since he's really new so he doesn't really know everyone. But he got up to just say that he was happy that everyone was so nice to him and accepted him into our group. Then he got up again to read a Bible verse he found. It really moved everyone. And after everyone was done crying (everyone cried....even the guys), he got up and talked to everyone. He was really good. Jake and I called him the Jesus of our youth group. xD Then, after I went to bed, the people that stayed up played wallball until it started snowing. Then they decided to go sledding. When they got to the bottom, they didn't want to walk all the way back up, so they sat at the bottom of the hill and told scary stories. They didn't get to bed until about 3:30 AM. And we woke up at 5 AM to leave. I felt bad.
I slept on Everett for the first 3 hours on the way back home. He sat next to me, and I kept waking up because I was uncomfortable. Then I stretched out my legs and laid them across his and I finally fell asleep. But I made his legs go numb, so he woke up and moved them, which made me wake up. But it was ok, since we ate breakfast like 15 minutes later.
The closing ceremony was amazing. I feel 100% closer to everyone after this trip. It made me realize how much I missed out on for the year I didn't go to youth. I decided to start living strong for Christ every day. Pastor Todd gave us all Livestrong bands, because that was the theme of our retreat.
Ephesians 6:10
Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
Amen.
♥
The first day, there was a little bit of snow, just enough for a good snowball fight, but not enough for sledding or anything. So the guys played football while the girls took naps. Which really consisted of eating a lot of candy and going outside to watch the guys play football.
It snowed that night, and we all took the sleds and found this HUGE hill and went sledding for about 2 hours. It was so much fun. We were planning on playing bucketball, but we never did. It was so sad. :(
On Sunday, we had the most fun ever. A few of us decided to go sledding before all the snow melted. Then me, Hannah, Jillian, Erica, Sam, and Nicole were just chilling in the cabin and we started talking about who out of all the guys in youth we would want to see naked first. xD (This started because Jillian went to go get something and she said, "I love it how Everett just took his shirt off and left it here.......and his pants......?") Well yea, so I thought it was funny how everyone had the same people on their list, and I loved how Austin, the cutest sixth-grader ever to be part of our youth group was on everyone's list. I would put my list on here, but no one knows any of them, haha, so....yea. Well, during our closing thing, Michael surprised me. He's usually really quiet, and I was like, the only person he had talked to the entire trip, since he's really new so he doesn't really know everyone. But he got up to just say that he was happy that everyone was so nice to him and accepted him into our group. Then he got up again to read a Bible verse he found. It really moved everyone. And after everyone was done crying (everyone cried....even the guys), he got up and talked to everyone. He was really good. Jake and I called him the Jesus of our youth group. xD Then, after I went to bed, the people that stayed up played wallball until it started snowing. Then they decided to go sledding. When they got to the bottom, they didn't want to walk all the way back up, so they sat at the bottom of the hill and told scary stories. They didn't get to bed until about 3:30 AM. And we woke up at 5 AM to leave. I felt bad.
I slept on Everett for the first 3 hours on the way back home. He sat next to me, and I kept waking up because I was uncomfortable. Then I stretched out my legs and laid them across his and I finally fell asleep. But I made his legs go numb, so he woke up and moved them, which made me wake up. But it was ok, since we ate breakfast like 15 minutes later.
The closing ceremony was amazing. I feel 100% closer to everyone after this trip. It made me realize how much I missed out on for the year I didn't go to youth. I decided to start living strong for Christ every day. Pastor Todd gave us all Livestrong bands, because that was the theme of our retreat.
Ephesians 6:10
Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
Amen.
♥