well well well.. short hair short hair.

My previous post stating I was going to Bears den Lodge was a total lie. Although I didnt know that at the time. I found out where I was really going. Alpine Village. Winter Green Lodge. It was a beautiful wooden cabin that was split into 4 sections. The 2 top sections were the bigger of the 4, and the bottom 2 were the smaller. It was truly wonderful but in order to describe the weekend completely I shall recap day by day.



Friday: I woke up and worked out for a bit, had a shower and was asked to walk my brother and sister to school. Yipee :( I did so, and found myself missing them so much as they walked into their classroom. I went home and made some lunch, and went downstairs to put some makeup on. My friend Josh called, and told me he could pick me up in a half hour to go get his sister, my friend Danielle. I complied and quickly put my makeup on, finished lunch, blow dried my hair, straightened it, packed the rest of the stuff I was needing, and waited for him to come. He came an hour later, which im not complaining about.. I still needed to pack some more stuff so it worked out well. We picked up his sister, and went to his house so he could pack. Silly boy forgot his tooth brush. tsk tsk.. Anyways, then we went and picked up my friend Britnee from her school and went to her house to get her stuff. Once there we made plans to go to Original Joes for dinner and met up with Kyle and Cass. After dinner, Josh took Brit, and I to get starbucchis. Once arriving at the church we got into Cass's grandpas van and drove to the ferry terminal. We missed our ferry :( yes.. yes we did. So we waited 2 hours for the next one, the 9 being the last. We got on the ferry and it felt reassuring that we were finally on trek again. From the Nanaimo terminal it took 2 hours to get to the Cabin. We ended up arriving at 1:30 and hanging out until 3 in the morning. haha.. yea...

We had to wake up early in order to get our sessions in and have some devo time. Also our meals were made by groups of 4 people in order for the workload to be fair.

Saturday: I woke up at 8:30 in order to be up, showered and dressed for our breakfast at 9 am. breakfast consisted of scrambled eggs, toast, and fruit. Afterwards we had devo time and then began our sessions. We had 3 in total on Saturday, each consisting of 2 1/2 hours of time. We would listen to a pastor, and take notes, and discuss thoroughly after. I learned so much, and I felt like our group was becoming more of a family than a group of friends. I cant even count how many times I heard these people fart,burp and just be silly. I love that we can be like that. I love them. We had free time in between sessions and in that time every0ne went outside in the knee deep snow. We had wicked battles of snow fights, consisting of Bernie, Tess, Matthew, and I snowballing people in the hot tub ;) When we came in we did our final session for the day. The session was about having "it", whether it be the church having "it" or yourself. We described having "it" as having reliance and faith in God, and the passion in order to preach and evangalize (sp?) to people. I started crying, and realized how deep and bang on this session was for me. I had lost "it", and I think deep down, I had known it all along, but wanted not to believe it. And to be totally honest, I believe I lost it after I graduated. I was no longer involved in church, and youth and I think I just got lazy. Then when I met Donavin, I put him before God, and made him more important. BIG NO NO. Anyways, that was a Big night for me, and Im so glad that I realized it. Later that night Tess, Tessa and I went for a walk around the village and got somewhat lost. sh. It was quite an eventful night, and we eventually found our way back.. :)

That cabin was so beautiful, and cozy I dont think anyone wanted to leave come leaving day. :(

Sunday: I was in charge of making breakfast along with Josh, Kyle, and Andrea, we made waffles and had some cherry, wildberry and apple topping on them.. SO GOOD. Afterwards, we packed up all our stuff and got into our snow gear and ventured out to the snow tube slope. It was very fun, and we ended up staying there for 2 hours. Once we were done, we went back on the bus and drove to the ferry terminal where we boarded the 7 ferry..(lol) and started our journey to go home.

It was an amazing weekend. AMAZING. And im so glad I didnt pass up on the oppurtunity to go. Now, being at IMPACT is more like being with family than with friends. :)

kyky ♥