Blog #5

Ski retreat ’07 was awesome! Here are some of the highlights:

My cousin Josh as King Ooga Booga (hey, at least it’s better than cross-dressing)
The “snowboard chicks” and our “mother hen” Paley who taught us how to board without killing ourselves (although Slon and I have some impressive bruises)
NO HOSPITAL RUNS – woohoo!
Lee’s obsession with the no-bake cookies
Sarah’s obsession with bananas (pictures to follow)
Rachel Martin, jean skier
The ridiculous chair-lift games
“House” marathon on the bus ride home – I am hooked!
The snow dance
Team Spoon: Even though I was benched with an off-field injury, Aimee stepped up like a champ (MVS…most valuable spoon), Paley (smedium), and Sarah (forward)
Riding our motorcycles
Acoustic worship with Dustin and Phil
Extreme ping pong
Seriously, it was an awesome week-end; a chance to relax, have fun, get to know some great people, and reconnect with God. The fact that no one got hurt and I didn’t hit a tree with my snowboard was just an added bonus. Based on ski retreat, we’ve got a great set of confirmands coming up, and a great year of V.I. ahead. Keep checking for the pictures (I took over 100, so Andrew, you have a great excuse to procrastinate). Also, there were only 5 of us at Breakfast Club this morning (Trey, Hannah, and Angie from my car and Josh, who drove himself). I know that we had a long week-end, but I had to wake up early too. Which means today is the 6th day in a row I’d had to drink coffee to stay awake. I am turning into Nancy (Hannah Mauk), which means, boys, keep your curtains closed. Anyway, come to Breakfast Club next week! 6:15 at IHOP in Kenwood.
-Lauren

Blog #4

For those of you out there who have not gone through the college application process, I envy you. It's truly one of the more painful experiences of high school. It's probably only topped by the SAT, which has recently become more of an endurance test than a test of your reasoning ability. So why am I blogging at 2 in the morning? Well let's just say it wasn't priorities 1-10, and since I didn't finish those priorities until 2 am...here I am. So ski retreat is in two days, we leave on Friday. I am so excited!
It has been such a long time since Elevation, I can't wait to get out of the road with that bus full of friends, headed for the fresh powder. According to www.weather.com it has been snowing for the last two weeks, and should continue showing while we're in Harbor Springs, MI. In case any of you who are going on the trip read this before we leave, I am warning you: because of my lack of sleep tonight and Thursday night, I am going to be assisting Stefan as "The Enforcer" when it comes to turning off the lights and getting some sleep on the bus. I know it's hard to sleep on the bus, but you're going to have to deal with it, or at least keep quiet. So my ski retreat predictions:

1. We will get lost on the way to the Birchwood Inn (probably for more than an hour)
2. Someone will step on Lee while he's asleep on the bus floor
3. Someone will have an injury, but nothing serious.
4. Pranks and puzzles
5. Paley coordinates a "group fall," and Ski Patrol chases after her
6. Dustin will give up after an hour of skiing.
7. Lanie will be really out of control on the slopes.
8. Coleman will jump off a chair-lift. With Dangus. Who will show absolutely no emotion when he lands perfectly and Coleman wipes out.
9. We will have KFC for dinner the first night and hot ham-and-cheese sandwiches the second night
10. More than 5 people will fall asleep during my lesson on Sunday night
11. More than 5 people will wish they were watching 24 during my lesson on Sunday night. More than 5 people, plus me.

Well that's all I have time for. Check back after this week-end for pictures and a review of the trip!

-Lauren

P.S. Shout-out to Andrew, who is probably reading this because he doesn't want to do homework. Andrew, of all of the sites you could be using to procrastinate, you made a good choice.