Monday, September 8, 2008

Camping!!

This past weekend Pete and I were able to get away with seven of our friends to spend some time enjoying God's creation and relaxing...because honestly, we do not get to do alot of that here, even on the weekends.
We headed 2 hours north east of Camdenton, MO to a little town called Sullivan, which is where Meramac State Park is located. We arrived Friday afternoon and set up camp, enjoyed a dinner of chicken and brats, and some interesting fellowship with a few guys from the campsite across the road from us.
A few of us actually got the chance to talk with two of them a little about the Lord so that was exciting.

We had a campfire every night and every morning, not only because it was cold, but because fires are such an essential to camping, and we just so happened to bring ALOT of wood with us.
Our fire master, Sam started the fires...well most of the time, Doug was our early morning fire guy.
Most of the weekend we spent talking and laughing around meals or the fire, but there was definitely some time for hiking, exploring, playing frisbee and bocce ball, and reading all those books we don't get to read during class because of other homework.

Kathryn and Melanie were catching up on their leisurely reading!




















We brought all of our own food to make it the most cost effective as we possibly could, and everyone pitched in to help cook.

Here is Liesl cooking the taco meat over the fire
Sam made a jack-o-lantern out of the tomato he was supposed to be chopping for tacos


It was just a fantastic weekend to relax and be in the company of other Christian brothers and sisters learning from and laughing with one another.
Pete and Liesl cuddle up for a picture together.










































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