New Life Bible Camp

We spent the weekend at New Life Bible Camp, and after going to the same place year after year you're bound to have a few adventurous trips up, right?! So last year, we missed our exit on the PA Turnpike and it took us a few extra hours to make it there because the next exit is ya know, quite a few miles away!  This year, we barely made it to our rest stop, we emerged through the last tunnel on the turnpike and our fearless bus driver Mike noticed that this headlights weren't very bright, he attributed this to the rain/wet snow mess that we were driving through, but a few miles before our rest stop, we basically had no lights, we were losing our windshield wipers fast and there was really nothing we could do about it.  Praise the Lord we made it safely to our rest stop and Mike started making some calls, we were able to find an 24 hour emergency service to help replace our blown alternator and after 2 and a half hours we were back on the road again! We finally made it up to camp around 130am, unloaded the bus and immediately went to bed. Even though we were getting quite bored sitting in the Sideling Hill travel plaza for a few hours, I'm still praising God because we 1. made it safely and 2. weren't stuck on the bus with almost 30 teenagers along the side of the road!

Saturday we slept in a little later than normal because of our late night, still not quite enough sleep, but we got enough to function! Our "guest speaker" for the weekend was our very own Pastor Doug and he did a great job. Our theme was "Don't Waste Your Life", I love how Doug is able to bring home such important messages to our teens in such simple and effective ways.  We played some kickball (I am so out of shape, I'm struggling to walk today as a result of one hour of kickball...pathetic, I know) Some went hiking, fishing, went on a zip line, canoeing, and we played lots of basketball and floor hockey.  However, while playing basketball, I made a shot, my elbow popped, and now has a sharp pain and my pinky is numb...I'm not to concerned because it's not turning funny colors, so I'm just going to wait this one out and see if it gets better!

Last night, I had hopes for getting a better nights sleep since Friday night deemed a huge fail. We went to bed sometime a little after 1, which is fine except that sometime around 330 am I was woken up by one of my girls flailing around in her bed and screaming "How the heck do I get out of here?!?!" myself along with one of the other girls asked her if she was okay and at that point she had woken up, extremely confused hanging with a leg over the edge of her bed and said "yeah" in a pretty confused voice. Thankfully this added quite a few laughs to the morning.  I quickly fell back to sleep only to be woken up again because I kind of felt like my hair was moving, so without really thinking I put my hand through my hair and can only assume that I grabbed a stink bug....AAAAAAHHHH!!!! It was pitch black so I have no idea what I grabbed, but whatever it was got quickly thrown across the room and then I had a very hard time falling back to sleep.  With all that being said, I just woke up a little big ago after a glorious 2 hour nap, I could have probably just went to bed at 530 but I have one of the youth girls sleeping over tonight and then she is job shadowing me tomorrow. 

Sorry I don't have any pictures, I'll just have to wait for some of my girls to put pictures up so I can steal them from Facebook :)