this weekend was absolutely amazing.  ski retreat.  wow.

thursday we had to be at the church at 5:30.  ended up leaving around 6:15 ish.  drove up to cadillac.  stopped for burger king on the way up.  me, em, and rachel got our very own "future whopper eater" bibs.  haha.  we also watched a movie called it could happen to you.  most people didnt like it very much.  but it really did have a good message.  and i liked it.  we got to the cadillac sands resort around 11?  i dont really remember.  we got our room assignments - me, em, megan, and rachel.  heck yes.  connected to the counselors....it was all good though.  we did some ice breakers and got our small groups / prayer partners.  then went to bed.

woke up early the next morning.  7:15.  ate breakfast and drove to the slopes.  we went to caberfae this year.  and it was cool going somewhere other than shanty creek for a change.  i really liked the slopes for the most part.  rachel was dumb and actually went snowboarding on her fractured ancle.  dumb girl.  corb hurt his shoulder.  and i took a really hard fall on my ass.  so we all went into the warming room extra early on friday.  my new board ROCKED by the way.  ho man.  its sweet.  then we went back to the hotel around 5:30.  ate dinner.  did tons and tons of programming.  reallll boring.  some people went swimming after that.  me, rachel, and kels were trying to hide from all the drunk people.  we were supposed to have lights out at 12:30.  but the counselors were up until like 3 laughing.  and me, em, and rachel were up till then talking.

saturday we woke up around 7:15 again.  but....nobody woke us up.  so we got in trouble.  heather said someone in our room said "yeah, yeah we know"  but nobody is taking responsibility for it.  it was cough rachel cough.  ate breakfast, and hit the slopes again.  it was frickin freezing that day.  holy hell.  we took tons of breaks cuz our faces were freezing off.  all in all the snowboarding was awesome though.  we took corb snowboarding.  and he was actually pretty sweet.  for a first timer.  we went back to the hotel at 3:30.  showered, ate dinner, did some small group stuff.  wrote each member of our small group a little card telling them what a difference they make to us.  we made little boxes for craft, took communion, and got to read our notes after communion.  what everybody said made me cry.  especially carrie and heado.  i love you all so much.  then we had the huge sob fest 2005.  everybody goes around the circle talking about retreat and how none of us want the seniors to leave.  and its just really sad.  i cried before anyone even started talking.  and throughout the entire thing.  then linda started talking about her husband, and i saw corb's head drop into his arms and i just started bawling again.  aw.  it was so sad.  and i felt really bad.  after the sob fest was kangaroo court.  the seniors get to take revenge on all the younger kids and make them do anything they want.  trista and matt made me, em, and megan get taped together.  because of ASP and our motto was spider monkeys unite.  so we were "united".  then we went to bed after that.  well.  sort of.  we tried to scare carrie, heado, linda, and kim....but it didnt work out.  due to megan talking..they heard us sneaking into their room. 

sunday we got up early again.  ate breakfast.  and left for home.  no stops.  got home around 11.  went home and slept.  had musical from 3-6.  and that's the extent of my weekend. 

official phrase of ski retreat '05.  WUD UP HOMIE!!!

its amazing how you can feel so close to one group of people.  how you can absolutely love every single person in one room.  how you can go to this place every wednesday and sunday, and feel completely at home.  how you can have 8 or so counselors, and feel as if they are all your parents, and care so much about you.  we're all so tight.  i love you all SOOOO much more than you will ever know.  i never want to leave you guys.  ever.  EVER.  ever.