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The fastest week EVER!

October 7, 2005 on 10:01 pm | In Blog |

I can’t BELIEVE what insanity feels like? Can you? On a different note, I am thoroughly enjoing Google Earth. I’m a geography buff and I have found it very exciting to roam the world “traveling” in my own way. This picture is of Lake Atitlan where I took this picture in real life in GT this summer!

So this week really flew by. First off, Fall break was awesome! Eastern Shore Madness 2005!! My good friend Jason Turner was born and raised on the ES of Virginia (a little peninsula across the Chesapeake Bay). He family is really big into wildlife, nature, and he was able show us a little why this weekend. Ten of us went: Jason, Anastasia, Matt, Heather, Dane, Rachel, me, Cari, Laura, and Amanda. We stayed in a house circa 1780 on 1200 acres of land which include swamps, marshes, forests, beaches, and the bay near their coastline.

Friday night four of the ladies and I got there and met the other five (the scout group) for an adventure. Jason said we were on a need to know basis and everything was an adventure. So we go to the bay, canoe out to a sandbar island, stargaze at the most amazing sky I’ve EVER seen, bonfire with s’mores, canoe back to the house, and sleep. Saturday, we eat breakfast (scrapple if you’ve ever had that), go back out to the sandbar beach and just enjoy being out there for like six hours, and go back to the house to change. Next came hiking through the marsh and needle grass from which we have many scars, knocking over incredibly rotted trees with our bare hands, showers and dinner where we all developed family roles, saying goodbye to Rachel, Cari, and Anastasia who had to go back for a wedding, chillin’ and then sleep. Sunday morning, off to Jason’s church we go where we meet his family, get to see his house, have lunch in the middle of his town outside on picnic tables, and back to the house. I took a nap and read while the others went fishing and canoeing. When they got back I had spaghetti ready for everyone and we ate, cleaned house, packed everything in Rachel’s minivan, and came home. It really was a fantastic trip!

The rest of the week was SO busy with work, reading, classes, and some mild chill time, that suddenly it’s Friday night and the Agape 80’s party is about to begin! Just know that prayer is on the minds of many people here, especially me, and if you need some let me know. Also, there’s another page of UVa pics.

Finally, HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE!!! As my sister, I wish you long life, happiness, and a relationship with Jesus that never grows luke-warm.