Camping - Fall River Lake
This weekend I was able to go camping with some of the people that I play volleyball with. It was a good time, and it went by way too quickly. Here is a brief recap of some of the things that happened though:Got up there on Friday night after a little delay leaving. I will take the entire responsibility for that. I went out to dinner with my house-mate and ended up being about 20 minutes late to where we were supposed to meet. But we had plenty of light to set up camp and get a fire going. We even had some time to toss around a frisbee for a little while. Then we sat around the fire for a few hours before heading to bed.
Before I went to bed though, I had a great time by myself to sit by the fire and do some reading. One of the things that I read was 2 Corinthians 1. I was really impacted by verses 3-11. This is something that I have been struggling with lately and it was great to hear again through scripture what I know to be true, but don't necessarily always feel in my heart. In the coming months I will experience many challenges, from greatly different cultures, to feelings of extreme isolation. The question that continuously arises for me is "Do I trust God?". Do I really trust him? He is sending me out to these places alone and I know that it is His plan to do so. So I have nothing to worry about. I can rely on Him for comfort whenever I need it.
After I had done my reading, I went to bed. I didn't have a tent, so I slept on a concrete picnic table. Since I normally sleep on the floor at home anyways, this wasn't a problem...I didn't think. At 3:30 in the morning I was awoken by the sounds of rustling in the bushes. Since I was startled by this, I kind of jumped in my sleeping bag, nearly fell off the table, and knocked my flashlight off of the bench where it was sitting. So now I'm laying on a picnic table with rustling beside me and no flashlight. I try to sleep it off. This doesn't work. 5 minutes later the rustling has gotten closer. So I lean over the side of the table and feel around on the ground for my flashlight. After finally locating it, I shine it into the direction of the rustling and see the culprit....or should I say one of the culprits, an armidillo.
EWW!! These things are UGLY! Plus, while I am looking at one, I hear more rustling from at least 2 other places. But I focus my light on this one and begin a stare down. I figure that the nasty thing will be scared of me and my flashlight and will run away. But he doesn't! He comes closer, and closer, and closer, until he is about 5 feet from the table. So I start talking to this thing: "Get out of here!", "Go away", "No you don't!". Nothing works. So then I clap, trying to scare it off, but it still won't go. Instead I succeed in waking up the 4 dogs that are with us and they start to bark. At this point I have had enough of sleeping out in the open with the armidillos and I pick up my gear and get into a jeep where I sleep on the back seat for the rest of the night. Not the most comfortable place to sleep, but WAY better than being eaten by an armidillo!
So that was my harrowing adventure with the armidillos. Saturday and Sunday were mostly just regular camp things. Pete and Tracy brought their jetski to the lake, so we sped around on that for a while during the day. The record speed of the day was 71 mph. It was a lot of fun. No one would tandem with me though. Bryce also brought a slackline which he tied between two trees and we tried balancing on that for a while. Really good people are able to walk across them, but we are new. I tried 3 or 4 times and wasn't able to stay on for more than a second. But Bryce was getting pretty good by the end of the day and could stay up for maybe 10 seconds or more. Pretty neat stuff.
But that is all that I'll write for now. Nothing else overly exciting happened. It was just a good time out in nature to relax for a while.
Enjoy the pictures!
Peace and blessings,
JZ.
posted by JZ @ 2:44 PM
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