Ok, I just got back today at 1:30 from my retreat and we had the best time! I am the sorest i've ever been in my life, I swear I am. I cannot stretch my arm straight up high, and i have 9 bruises on one leg, and 12 on the other, fun, fun. Ok we got there and we ate dinner and then we did Bible study and our speaker was awesome! He was so groovy! Then we got into our tribes. Ok, now there were 6 tribes. Purity, Motivation, Perserverance, Strength, Joy, and Love. I was in Joy. And that was suppose to be Eric's group but he had to take Amy to the Hospital. Poor Amy. So we had another guy, Mike take over as our leader. Then in my group it was me, Whitney, Lauren, Brett, Blake, and Tim. Now, we went to the "tribal meeting" haha, and talked about what our group meant. And now let me tell you, every tribe had a flag that their leader had made, but Eric couldnt make one so yah know what our flag was? We had a small white towel, with Joy and a smiley face spray painted green on it, with no pole. But we had the best flag by far! So at the camp fire, we had to go with our group and look for the glow sticks in the woods and write the names down on the cards next to em. We got like 5th or something. Then we went back and did whatever and went to bed. The next day we got up and ate and had a Bible study, and our speaker got a chair and made a prayer chair. He sat a chair in the front facing everyone and if you had something you wanted to pray about, you came up and sat in the chair and talked about it. Well like 7 people did and 3 cried. Ashley started the crying, which I think was wonderful, cause it all brought us closer. And after each person got done, the speaker (Kenny Crook, who was an absolute beautiful speaker), said who wants to come pray for so and so. So people would come up and circle around them and put their hands on them and pray for them. Well when Ashley went up there he was crying when she got done talking. We all were crying. So, at the end the very last prayer was for Eric and Amy, and we all sat there in the floor and cried for them. It was so sad, but i'm glad we did that. Then we went swimming! We had 2 boats and 2 jet skies, and a slide, and a swinging rope. I went on the boat first and went tubbing with Michelle. Bad Idea. Ok we cant even get on the tube so were falling off. So I manage to hang on some and ure suppose to keep ure legs up but if I did that it would hurt my knees, so he stopped and Ashley rode with Michelle, and I got red marks from the water on my legs, then i noticed my toe was bleeding. Well Michelle went 3 times and evertime fell off! haha! Go Michelle! Then I went seadooing. And Adam was gonna take me cause u had to be 16 to drive one, but Ryan C. took me instead. He's so cute! Ashley's so lucky to have him. He said he needed his seadoo cause this one was slow, and he was flying around in the water, doing turns and stuff and I fell off! lol. It was fun though. Then I went on the boat again just for the ride. Then I was all wet and it was time to go play the dirty game they talked about all weekend. So i went and changed into some dry clothes and we had to do an obstacle course. We had to go with our leader to the little island and do the course and back again and the next person went. Well we had the worst time with the canoe. It kept going in circles! So while we were on our 2nd person, everyone else was on their 4th and 5th. Well were last of course lol. And I got so dirty and wet. I had mulch and mud all over me and I was soaked cause we had to swim. Well after that we went and ate dinner, and had a Bible study. Then we played another game. Food games. And they had on the table 6 plates with an 8oz bottle of water, 4 lemon pieces, and pile of sugar. And so I knew I could do that, lol, so I volunteered. U had to eat the lemons, then the sugar, and all the water and turn around twice and jump up and down twice and sit down. Well the sugar made me gag, cause it was just plain, but I got 4th or 3rd, I think 4th. Then another 6 peeps had to eat Baby food! Then another 6 had to have an alcacelcer in their mouth! Whitney got 2nd on that! Go Whitney! Then you had to bob for apples, and Tim was gonna go, but the water so cold, and he couldnt stand it, so we forfeit, but not biggie we did alot better that night. Then I went and took a shower and me, Rebecca, Amber, Chris, Ashley, Ryan, Michelle, Stan, and I think someone else all went on a boat right that night. It was the most gorgeous thing. It was so clear out and there were SO many stars. And Chris drove the boat! lol. Then we went back and switched people and went again, but it wasnt as much fun. Then we went to bed. Ok, I could not walk today. I was so sore. It hurts to laugh or cough or bend over, or anything like that. We all were in pain. And our last game was this morning. We had to go and hold hands with our team and go to 4 points and answer questions about a story we had just heard and we'd get a number. And we got all of em and we were 4th.
Then we loaded the bus and went to McDonalds for lunch and I came home and took a nap. AAAHHH, so tired. Well i'll write later on. Too tired to do anything else.
