Sunday, February 10, 2008

Ski Retreat #2

Our second ski retreat at Wesley Woods was great--lots more folks (over 100 all together!) and quite a bit more chaos, but it was lots of fun and my snowboarding skills improved dramatically (no visible lumps or bruises!)!

Trent (a Starbucks co-worker) and Jeanne, who live around the corner from us, and Candie, a Garrett student and Holy Covenanter, joined us in the leadership for the weekend.

Here are Candie and Trent leading worship songs the first night:


Again, I was not daring enough to take my camera out on the slopes, but we had a great time! The weather was much warmer and the sun was out--yay! I took a snowboarding lesson with Trent, who was trying it for the first time. Jeanne and Eric, the experts, went off for a while and left us to tumble down the hill for most of the afternoon.

After the band, Rufus Tree, we joined in the ritual "give youth tons of sugar before bedtime" snack--ice cream! Sorry leaders.


Yeah...we didn't work all that hard.


Eric didn't take off his new Wesley Woods bag the whole weekend.


On the way home, we just had to stop at the "Promise Land" restaurant, a Paddock Lake fixture that we've been making fun of from afar for years. It was smoky and a bit of a dive and a bit too patriotic for my liking, but the greasy diner food was delicious.

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