So Friday evening, four of us drove up to Saranac together. The car ride was fun, we chatted for most of the trip. But by the time we arrived at the camp, it was almost midnight and I was exhausted. Even through my grogginess (I fell asleep in the car towards the end) and the dim lighting, I could tell the camp was beautiful. It looked like a resort. We had bunk beds in our rooms which we shared with a few other girls.
Saturday morning I walked out saw the lake for the first time. It was so calm and beautiful. The smell of damp forest in the chilly morning air was soothing and refreshing. I was told that the food was great, and they were right. It's not at all like what I remembered about camp food. Every meal was very tasty, I didn't even crave the bags of junk food that they put in our rooms. The high school kids were volunteers for the weekend and served us during all the meals. They're really cute.
Our table at lunch
The main lodge where me and the other girl in our group stayed. I loved how you can just roam around the camp and find little areas to sit and chat, pray, think by yourself....
After lunch on Saturday, we basically had free time to explore and do activities until dinner. We went out onto the lake in a canoe and kayaks. I've never been in a kayak before. I pretty much did a horrible job of maneuvering and went in circles a lot. And it's tiring! I was so slow getting back to shore that towards the end, Gerald just came into the water and pulled my kayak ashore. I am so pathetic when it comes to outdoor activities. Next, we were scheduled for the rope course. So there were these rope obstacles from tree to tree, and you're maybe 4 stories above ground (I'm not good with judging distances)? A few parts were pretty scary. At one point, we ziplined across, from tree to tree. It was fun, but the scariest part is letting go and falling into the air. It's kind of a freeing and exhilarating feeling though, letting go. After the ropes course, we played frisbee golf. I stunk at frisbee but it was fun anyway.
After a yummy dinner, we had what's called Club, where we sing a bunch of songs with a really good live band, be entertained for a bit and do silly things, and then we hear a message. This speaker was amazing, he preaches very simple things but does it in a way that captures your attention and makes you think. After Club, we headed over to the gym and guess what, we got to SQUARE DANCE! LOL, I haven't square danced since middle school gym class! I love square dancing, it was so much fun, even though we were all like running into each other and probably not doing any of it right. Afterwards we had some more free time and one of the guys we were with took us to 'the secret spots' to star gaze. Oh my gosh, seriously, I've never seen so many stars in the sky before. It was perfect, because there was no moon. We were able to lie on these large rocks that rose above the lake (so we had to be careful cuz it was nearly pitch black and if you fell off the rocks, down into the lake you go!) Looking up at the sky, I almost felt like I was floating in space, it was so beautiful and peaceful, especially with the occasional cool evening breeze. Sigh. Oh, and Mike pointed out that the cloud-like misty thing in the sky was the Milky Way! I SAW the Milky Way, how cool is that?! I think that was my favorite moment of the trip.
Sunday we went parasailing over the lake and tubing. Parasailing was fun, although it got a little scary when we were up in the air and it started to get a bit windy. Tubing was great. But we told the guy to go slow cuz a couple of us girls couldn't swim. The most terrifying part was getting in the water with a life vest, knowing that that's the only thing that's keeping me from drowning. Yea, so the boat was going so slow and straight that we were able to pose for pictures and have a conversation with each other while tubing, LOL. I think next time, we can go 'medium' level. The guys on the other hand, were getting flipped and falling all over the place, it looked painful.
Dinner on Sunday was 50s theme, so we got dressed up in our 50s clothing, or whatever we could pull together at the last minute that might pass as 50s clothing. They had a swing dancing contest, it looks fun. I told my group that we should learn swing dancing if we were to come back, because out of our group of 30 some people, we didn't have any representatives on the dance floor, sadness.
After dinner and Club we had some free time to play!
All the other girls were asleep by the time me and Daryl (the girl from my church) got back to our room. We were not tired yet so we grabbed our bags of chips and went downstairs to the lounge. There was a huge fireplace and some people sitting around it chatting. So we took a table on the other side of the room and ended up having a great couple of hours sharing and munching (I was doing most of the munching, surprise surprise). That was a real blessing.
The next morning we cleaned up our rooms, went to breakfast and then prepared to go back home. Here's a picture with a few of the girls in our room
Three of the girls' husbands
After we got back to Jersey, we stopped at Fuddruckers for dinner where I ordered a 1/3 pound mushroom swiss burger with fries. Wow, it was good. I was pooped by the time I got home. What an amazing weekend! There are more pictures in the link below. I didn't take that many pictures cuz my camera isn't waterproof.
http://web.mac.com/
1 comment:
you're so cute as a 50's gal
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