This weekend the MSM went to Hume Lake for their middle school winter camp. Like last year, it was a fun, exhausting weekend. Unlike last year, there was snow. Lots of snow. Mounds of snow. In fact, it snowed 4 feet while we were there. Our guys made it to the second round of the broom hockey tournament and some even cried when they lost.
No joke. It was intense. We played a rousing game of snow football too and yes, some guys (guy) cried on the losing team. Again, it was intense. Three students gave their lives to the Lord which was great. I had a conversation with one of them (Jamie - the guy I hit in the face twice with a dodgeball a year ago) after the speaker's talk the last night and it went really well. He had a lot of great questions and we talked for about an hour. It was really encouraging and puts the rest of the weekend's events in to perspective. On Saturday night they had a box sled race.
Each church was asked to build a sled using only cardboard and duct tape and were timed going down the sled hill and judged based on style and creativity. The event took place at close to midnight under the neon glow of multiple spotlights amidst a deluge of falling snow. It was pretty incredible. Our 4-man sled held up pretty well, but lacked speed, style, and manueverability. In short, we lost. No one cried this time though. Yesterday, in an attempt to make it home early enough to catch the Super Bowl, we departed Hume at 11:30 am.
Hume had a plow lead the cars out of the lake basin. We missed the first departure time and had to wait for the plow to return to catch the next group. However, a bus got stuck on the road at the summit and we had to wait a couple hours until they cleared it out of the way. Fortunately we were able to get some lunch and hang out in the cafeteria. We finally left Hume at around 1:15pm (or so we thought).
About 8 miles up the mountain we suddenly were forced to stop. We found out that another bus got stuck on the road and when a bus tried to pass the other bus, it too got stuck. So there we were at 6500 ft., under a blanket of falling snow, waiting for the CHP to pull out the buses. Long story short...the Hume staff informed us that we may have to stay the night and since we didn't have cell coverage there it was sort of a nightmare.
Fortunately they were able to move the buses and we were back on the road around 5:45pm after being stuck in our cars for 4 hours. We made it home by 10:30. It was a good trip despite the debacle at the end. I will post a video from the trip in the next couple weeks.
Biggest Snow, '08.
This weekend the MSM went to Hume Lake for their middle school winter camp. Like last year, it was a fun, exhausting weekend. Unlike last year, there was snow. Lots of snow. Mounds of snow. In fact, it snowed 4 feet while we were there. Our guys made it to the second round of the broom hockey tournament and some even cried when they lost.
No joke. It was intense. We played a rousing game of snow football too and yes, some guys (guy) cried on the losing team. Again, it was intense. Three students gave their lives to the Lord which was great. I had a conversation with one of them (Jamie - the guy I hit in the face twice with a dodgeball a year ago) after the speaker's talk the last night and it went really well. He had a lot of great questions and we talked for about an hour. It was really encouraging and puts the rest of the weekend's events in to perspective. On Saturday night they had a box sled race.
Each church was asked to build a sled using only cardboard and duct tape and were timed going down the sled hill and judged based on style and creativity. The event took place at close to midnight under the neon glow of multiple spotlights amidst a deluge of falling snow. It was pretty incredible. Our 4-man sled held up pretty well, but lacked speed, style, and manueverability. In short, we lost. No one cried this time though. Yesterday, in an attempt to make it home early enough to catch the Super Bowl, we departed Hume at 11:30 am.
Hume had a plow lead the cars out of the lake basin. We missed the first departure time and had to wait for the plow to return to catch the next group. However, a bus got stuck on the road at the summit and we had to wait a couple hours until they cleared it out of the way. Fortunately we were able to get some lunch and hang out in the cafeteria. We finally left Hume at around 1:15pm (or so we thought).
About 8 miles up the mountain we suddenly were forced to stop. We found out that another bus got stuck on the road and when a bus tried to pass the other bus, it too got stuck. So there we were at 6500 ft., under a blanket of falling snow, waiting for the CHP to pull out the buses. Long story short...the Hume staff informed us that we may have to stay the night and since we didn't have cell coverage there it was sort of a nightmare.
Fortunately they were able to move the buses and we were back on the road around 5:45pm after being stuck in our cars for 4 hours. We made it home by 10:30. It was a good trip despite the debacle at the end. I will post a video from the trip in the next couple weeks.
Biggest Snow, '08.
3 comments:
i'm super glad you had a wonderful and snowy time! i'm also thankful that you made it home! rest up. i know retreats are exhausting!
It sounds like you guys had a lot of fun! It's exciting to hear that 3 people gave their lives to Christ. I'm glad it was a good trip (I'm sure my brother had a lot of fun..haha).
Love football. (Dan's team lost)
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