we had our dorm retreat this weekend at a camp called Camp Roger in grand rapids. this place is awesome... and to make it more awesome, the weather was awesome!!!! we seriously have been having summer weather the past few days. it was hot, making the lake an attractive place to jump in. i wasn't planning on going in the water (didn't even have a bathing suit), so some of us just hung out on the shore. then came time for the boat races. we needed 8 people from each floor, so i volunteered. turns out, these boats are super unstable, and we had to use our arms to paddle. we had 4 people in a boat at a time, and i was in the first group. we got off to a horrible start and were immediately in last place... so what do we do??? me and this other girl jumped out of the boat and started kicking behind the boat to help it along a bit. let me just say, the water felt great! anyway, so our strategy at that point was to tip as many boats as possible along the way. so me and the other girl would swim off to the guys boats and tip them/fill them with water so they'd be slowed down. after finally getting our boat back to the second group, they kicked butt and we made it all the way to 4th place!!! yayafter that, i was soaking wet, but it was so warm out that it felt good. so rebekah, melissa and i took a row boat out (with the oars) on to the lake and hung out there for a good 45 minutes... just rowing around, checking out the scenary and trying to catch these cool little jelly fish. we had so much fun. then it was dinner, and then some of us colored in coloring books... so muc fun. then it was sleep, wake up, breakfast, worhsip service, back to calvin.
this is the boat race... you can't see our boat because we're in way last...
and there is our boat... and no one is in it... we're all just outside of it, trying to pull/pull it along... haha, so much fun!
heres rebekah scared at the fact that i am soaking...
rebekah and melissa...
me and melissa doing rowing like the pros.
and there is our boat... and no one is in it... we're all just outside of it, trying to pull/pull it along... haha, so much fun!
heres rebekah scared at the fact that i am soaking...
rebekah and melissa...
me and melissa doing rowing like the pros.
this is a little jelly fish guy...
isn't that beautiful!?!
our cabin...
isn't that beautiful!?!
our cabin...
okay... now this place is right outside of camp roger... i saw this while driving and was absolutely shocked... isn't this incredible... it's some kind of breakfast place, and it was really busy when we stopped to take the pic. i can't get over it... a Stavro's in grand rapids, michigan... a family business i never knew about.. HILARIOUS... haha
3 comments:
Sounds like you had a riot! Did they serve the best ever spaghetti & meatballs at Stavros? :) Keep on having the time of your life.
okay, in my defense here:
#1 i was the one that wanted to go to golden spoon, but being the easy going person i am :) went along with the group, who didn't really feel the burning passionate desire to go, as i did.
#2 did i ever say that a tea latte is ranked above fro yo? i don't think so...you must agree though that tea lattes are better than nothing
however, i do think i will be disowned from golden spoon lovers everywhere if i don't go soon.
i'll try and do that sometime this week.
ha ha! so, your brain is fried from reading? then what's my excuse? :)
by the way, nice pictures...that looks like a fun weekend! :)
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