Welcome to The Blizzard!

No, no, incase you're wondering about my title here, we did not have snow at my house ;-)

Typical, for Clarkston.

It was the name of this thing that my friend Taylor and I went to this weekend up in Republic, Washington.

It was called The Blizzard and it was a weekend church camp.

When Mrs. Strottmann gave my mom the information about it, she said that it would be about a 6 hour trip from Moscow... My mom figured "That's huge, it must be a 6 hour round trip." Well, turns out that it was a six hour trip! But hey, I enjoy long car trips. Turns out the place we were going to is a church up on a snow-covered mountain in Republic, Washington.

We got there around 6:30 (if I remember right) and we showed up in the middle of a Bible trivia game that was set to be similar to "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire". I was on the pink team, Taylor was on green, and this guy named Tim whom I got to know over our dinner stop at a fast food restaurant was on the red team. There were also three other teams: blue, purple, and orange. After that game there was a sermon by this guy named Dennis. He was a very good pastor. He taught about making choices to serve God and obeying our parents. After that there were more games.

The one I liked the most was where we were racing to see waht team's players could all each eat a stick of liccorice without using their hands. It was a challenge, but I turned out to be one of the top fastest people on my team for that game. Then once that and the other games were over we had a snack and then went to bed around 12:30 AM.

Then wakeup call was 6:45 AM. So we got dressed, had breakfast, then went out to play broom hockey, which was fun, despite the fact that my team lost every single round. It was very beautiful out there! A wonderful veiw of the mountain valley and so much snow!!
Then when we were done out there we went inside for another seromon, then had lucnh, and found out what places our teams came in for points (we were scored on all games, plus were able to do extra things to earn bonus points). Taylor's team came in first and (not much of a suprise to me here) my team was last. Then we got to find out what church's group won the Blizzard Cup (which was this big trophy thing that was full of candy...and came with a whole table full of it besides that!). Taylor's group didn't win, but oh well. They're not the biggest church group who was there, so the chances were smaller of that.

All and all, it was a really great trip! Thank God I survived the trip home though... I mean really, between Taylor's constant camera flashes (she's OBSESSED with taking photos...she just got a digital camera for her birthday) and the fact that we drove through a big snow storm all the way home. It was pretty bad...I counted and we passed 6 cars that had gone off the road and one that was fliped and lying on it's side. *sigh of relief* The Lord sure kept us safe on that one...!