Hey guys so thanksgiving was awesome. I got to hang out with Esther's family and eat lots of food, yum! Her household was pretty loud but I don't think it was any louder than mine usually is. Esther warned me before I came that her family likes to stay up late, so I'm thinking maybe twelve o'clock, ya not quite I don't think we went to bed before three the whole weekend! The craziest part was that most of her family stayed up late too not just the two of us!!!
Rock climbing at Rattle Snake point was so fun, the weather was great except for Tuesday so we went to Niagara that day. We got to sight see and view the beautiful falls, its crazy how wet you get just from the mist! If you have never been there the main tourist street looks like it is out of some Hollywood movie, everything is bigger than life and there are about three wax museums and seven haunted houses. So back to climbing, there were some pretty tough climbs especially because it is a pretty popular place to climb so there are a lot of climbs that the rock has actually been smoothed and it is so hard to stay on the cliff! (don't worry we are attached to a rope so we wouldn't actually fall) Ohhh so the weather was really nice the rest of the time but then on the last day these bugs called asian beetles which look exactly like lady bugs but orangeish came out in swarms and they bite!!!!! So we were trying to climb these slippery rocks while swatting these freaky bugs and it was a challenge let me tell you!
So last week I was leader of the week which means that I had to plan a day trip for LDP, plan a bible study for each morning (called PLAID for prayer, leadership thought, announcements, interaction, and devotion), and make up a schedule for the school groups that came in on Wednesday. (hence the fact that I didn't write a blog) So at first I was worried about doing the PLAID's but then once I started to plan them I found it easy, my topic of the week was passion in case you wanted to know. The day trip that I planned was so awesome! How it worked was we had a list of thirteen geocaches and we had to find as many as we could before supper. Geocaches are boxes hidden throughout the world that people put the coordinates onto a website so that if you are near one you can find it. In the box are trading items if you take something you have to leave something and there is also a log book so that you can say you were there. We were in groups of three and all we had were the coordinates to the geocashes, a riddle of where they were hidden, and a GPS. I gave points to each cash according to how hard they were to find or how far away they were. So you had to be strategic about when and where you wanted to go. My group went to find a cash that was in the middle of the woods and as we parked our car w
e noticed all these trucks parked along side this road, which was kind of weird because we were pretty much in the middle of nowhere. We ignored them and went running into the woods (Melinda and I were dressed up as fairies and David was Zorro...for team spirit of course) then we thought about what we had seen again and realized that there were also men in bright orange. Realizing that we were nowhere near a prison and that there is no orange hat mens group we came to the conclusion that they were hunters. So instead of doing the smart thing and turning around we continued on talking very loudly to make sure we weren't mistaken for deer. But no worries we all returned home safe and sound.The next part of my week was actually pretty fun, as leader I don't have a small group to lead but I just help everyone out when needed and make sure the group is happy. So I had two school groups in which is a bit more complicated because you have to make sure their schedules don't overlap, and when I realized that I somehow had made theirs overlap on a few occasions, only minuets before giving it to them, I madly figured out a way to make it work and they never even knew! The only thing that I didn't like was the fact that I had to do all the group talks such as the rule and at each meal I had to tell them what was going on.
So this weekend I had off which was nice so I started working on my missions statement (which is due just before Christmas) basically you are supposed to sum up your passions and goals in life in a short paragraph. But since you all know me I decided to do a painting instead and I might incorporate words if I feel the need.
So today we went on another day trip which was canoing and when we stopped for lunch there was this place to go caving and there were cliffs that were forty feet high. It was crazy how nice it was out, we all had to put sunscreen on so that we wouldn't get burned! With such nice weather and such tall cliffs Laura, Anna, and I decided that it was a shame not to cool off in the water by jumping off the cliffs. So I'm happy to say that today was my first time jumping off an actual cliff and it was so much fun!
Well thats about it for now so have an awesome week everyone and I'll try to keep you updated as to whats going on with me.
