labor day retreat!
it's been a week since labor day.   i happened to GO on the labor day retreat w/ the church.... and i haven't said one word about it.   i think it is time to reveal the nothingness that happened.  lol

welll...  saturday.  i got there at 7am.  we were supposed to LEAVE at 7 am, so technically i was late.  no matter.i got there and...  everyone was just... standing.  i grouped with eric, crystal, zack, alston, and will.  we were just... talking...  i've never been on a trip like this, but considering the van i was SUPPOSED to be in...  [it was gonna be beyond packed w/ people] until like... 6 of them moved out to pursue a brand new van.   so alston, crystal, will, wesley, and I put our stuff in the van and went to go pray so we could finally leave.   we waited... and waited...  and waited.   we played duck, duck, goose whilst we waited [boredom.]   then we prayed.   we went out to our van.   it just so happened that... the people that left the van...  re-took the van, threw all our stuff out of the van, except for alston and wills stuff [bastards] and they didn't even warn us.  so then, crystal, wesley, and i had absolutely zero ride. none. because those assholes took our damn van w/o even telling us.    we looked around [pissed, mind you.] and Kemmers mom tols us to ride with her.   i'm very happy we ended up riding w/ her.  she was so stocked up with food... we ended up watching movies up there... talking about...  everyone...  and it was nice and quiet.      but we ended up leaving the church 2 to 3 hours late.  therefore, we got to the place 2 to 3 hours late. [fucking doug.]    since we got there late, our original cabins were taken, sold out.   we ended up not being able to do our  horseback riding/paintball/high ropes course that day.  so all we did was eat [best hamburgers i've eaten in a long time] and do a little bit of praise.   we hiked up the hill and i ended up talking w/ camela, josh, zack, caleb, crystal, and crystals dad.  nick broke up w/ her... again.   we told her she would be stupid to go back out w/ him...  and we told her to be strong.    she ended up going back out wiht him any ways.   stupid girl.     but we walked around the rest of the time and...  got aquainted with the girls AND boys cabins.   i liked our cabins, they had lofts.   it was raw.   the funny thing is, everyone was at the boys cabins almost the whole time.   it just seemed like the thing to do.  it was closest to... everything.  lol     i was in the cabin w/ mrs. gardener and mrs. debbie.   rawrness.

second day... we woke up and ate a ghetto b-fast.  lmao.   then ran around for an hour or two.  went up to the outpost to get ready for whitewater rafting.   lmao.   we all got the biggest lifejackets i've ever seen, a blue and yellow paddle, and a blue helmut.   lmao.   we got a safetly briefing and went down the steepest hill in the world to a school bus.  the oldest guy in the world happened to be driving said school bus.   he was also the scariest driver ever.   it seemed like he was driving like 80 MPH down these huge fucking hills...  around corners...  and the whole time yelling at us to stop thumping our paddles on the floor.  [he seriously hated it]    it took like... 15 minutes to get there [i swear we had to be going like...  80 MPH.]  but when i saw the place we were getting out at i thought i was going to have a heart attack.  dead serious.  all you saw was a bridge.   right over a dam.  that made a complete drop off.  it was fucking scary.   then i saw our rafting guide.   he was even scarier.   red head...  crazy life vest on...   i swear...  it was insane.  he asked what kinda "adventure" we wanted.   i didn't care too much how crazy we got.   but we had kemmer's mom & she's scare of this shit.   she was like...  i'm not holding ya'll back!   so we said, "we want it as crazy as possible without being flipped over and out of the raft" HA!    well, we went to the OTHER side of the dam. [made me so relieved.  lol]   got in, didn't paddle for a while.   lmao.   well, we got to a class 2 rapid.  that's where we took a picutre w/ him all crazy & whatnot.   i think it was called double trouble.  but we got caught on some rocks sideways...  and he told us to lean to the left....  we did and the whole raft flooded....  it bent in half and he was like YEAH!   TACO!    fucking crazy insane man!  lmao.   then we got stuck, like seriously stuck, on a rock cliff sideways again...  this time...    another raft hit us...  and we ended up flipping OVER.   i was never so fucking scared in my damn life.  friggin... i was on top of crystal, she was in between me and a rock on the BOTTOM of the river...  we both were run over by not one, but TWO rafts... i got back on top of the water..  & our guide dude pulled me up and into the raft after i frantically swam over to him in some shallow ass water   [we were instructed to never stand up in the water no matter how shallow b/c you could get your foot/hangs stuck...  dragged under water and end up drowning.]    but...  we got back in the raft....   no big deal, were were all just...  freaked out a bit.  lmao.   about that time i got in the front  left side of the raft, opposed to the middle left where i was before.   i was up there w/ crystal.  it was raw.  lol    we went down this awesome class 3 or 4 rapid backwards.  it was...  weird.  lol      on the absolute LAST rapid.   LAST rapid.   we were going through it in circles.   it was awesomely amazing.  really.   until we hit a rock..   on the front left side of the raft [sound familiar?!]   i wasn't balanced correctly...  and i just...  fell... right out.    it happened that i fell right on out... on the rock we hit.  it was flat.   so i laid there.  just... laid there.   i thought a million things in that like... 3 seconds [felt like 5 minutes ] i laid there.  like... where am i?, am i hurt?, where the fuck is my raft?, ooh, i see shane! wtf, i'm on a rock! i think i should get off this rock. hey!  there's nicole!   wow, she went down that whole rapid not in a raft?  that sucks. *waved at nicole and she happened to wave back*  lmao.  i thought many other things...  but there were just as many of them.   i wriggled off that rock [paddle still in hand]  and the first raft and hand i saw was shane's   [lifesaver!!  lmao]   i swam to him...  he put me in his raft....  after i yelled at them to take the stupid paddle out of my hand.  lmao   and they brought me back to my raft and i climbed back in.  no more paddling for me, even though we were literally right there at the end.  we got back on the bus...   w/ the crazy bus driver.   we ended up going back slower b/c we were going UP the mountains.   lol.  his max speed was like 50 MPH [yea, we watched the speedometer.  lmao]     got back...  dried off and rested...  i was all...  ugh.  i felt like shit.  lmao.   i climbed on the bunk and just rested.  couldn't sleep...  eventually i went up to the loft w/ some girls and messed w/ them for like... 30 minutes.  then i walked around and we went down to the stables to see the horses to see which ones we went to ride.   someone said twister but i ened up riding lucky.  lmao.   poor horses.  they were so tired.  but i got up on lucky and he was all like.  ugh.  lol   but he was a good boy.  we rode up the mountain....  down in mud...  though the paintball course... by our cabins...  though woods.   the horse fucking... TRIPPED 3 times!  in the mountains, mind you.   freaked me the hell out.   he galloped like... twice.  ugh.   crazy horse, i swear!!    but he was a good buddy!   he was huge too!!   i luff him!  lol   the rest of that day was eating...  praise and worship...  i took my second communion....  i actually thought hard...  long and hard about it and what doug said about it.  it was a good service.   i went to the cabins w/ will, crystal, and eric.   zack almost pushed me in the freaking...  nastiness of whatever that water was.     took a shower...  after an hour of searching for a place w/ debby, crystal and jesse [gardener]  we found showers that weren't taken.   it was amazing.  lmao.  but  we took showers... we left so much better.  lmao.     we didn't go to bed until like... 2 am. 

we woke up at like...  7 am.  ate another ghetto b-fast...  packed everything up...  messed with the boys about being nekked.  lmao.   helped find stuff.   packed up some more.   packed the vans.   we actually left...  on time.  it was scary, really.  but   we had fun riding back in kemmer's moms car.   we ended up watching 300...  then i fell asleep...  for a lonnngg time.  lol.  i'm talking like...  3 hours.   we stopped and took a bathroom break..  i woke up and walked around.    got back in the car...   heard we were going to Fuddruckers.   awesomeness.   we ate there, i washed it down w. starbucks...  [right across the parking lot.  woot.]      of couse doug took a wrong turn, again...  so the car we were in was at fuddruckers first, telling them directions.   we ate... ran around all awesomeness.     we left, fell back asleep.   nice ride home.   got home...   and we were all like... YAY!   lmao.     i got my stuff and went home.   went to sleep.  lmao.   sad really.

but yea   all in all, i got 2 bad looking bruises... and i had a bunch of fun.       that's it.   i wanna do it again next year too!  woot woot.

there's your damn update!  lol.