Beneath the Surface

Well I was at BTS this last week or so.


This time BTS was in Louisiana! So I got to go with the Knopp's and help them. I really had no idea what i was going to do, but I was prepared to do anything.

We had a fun trip down there, nothing that eventful happened. I had to sit next to two strangers on the first plane and it was okay, I just tried to sleep. we had a 2 hour layover in Houston (with was only supposed to be 30min.) (the same thing happened on the way home) but we got lunch and lizzy and i rocked out on our MP3 players in on of the terminals



Then we cought up with the rest of the crowd and took a super cool picture with our shades!

Eventually we made it there (I know I am hurringing the story up) and we met the nicest people!

We stayed with a family with alot of cute kids (there were a lot of them, but most of the older ones were away) and they also had a swimming pool! that was really nice on Saturday night!

On Friday we went to the church around noon and started to set up. I found out I was incharge of the book table and I was to be a group leader. I was nervous about being a group leader because it seemed like a place of such responsibility and i wanted to do a good job. I sked to have the youngest group, and I did I got the 10 and 11 year olds and they were the sweetest little things. They were so nice and they all spoke with sute southern accents!

I even had a tomboy who had to wear a dress and who's mother made her come! she came up to me that night and complained that I was going to take her whole saturday! lol but when I said :what you don't want to send your saturday with me?" she mostly stoped. I think her favorite thing was the chocolate fountain. :) but I think she got some good stuff especiallty on Saturday. the other girls all we very diferent but each special. I don't think i have time to write about all of them but they all left special memories with me.

After BTS we went to NewOrleans and saw lots of stuff. I did decide though that I do not want to live there because it is soooo HOT!!! I wanted to run to the air conditiond mall, but sould only trudge to it! :)

Oh and they have interesting food! We ate Jimbolia (idk the spelling) and boudam balls (again idk the spelling) both were good and i liked them. and in New Orleans we ate bangets and they were really good they come from Cafe Du Monde which is suposed to be really famous, and according to the food and the lines I agree.

Well obveously that is not all of my trip but that is the good parts in a nut shell. Perhaps I will write more about it, perhaps not. (you never know with me;) )

Joelle

Campout

Well,

I am going to try and catch up on my blogging, so I will only tell the best stories.

We went on a campout with our co-op and we were going to Sun River. when we got there it was nice and just alittle chilly. Then at night everything went wrong. first off, there were 5 boys and 4 girls and we were both in 4 person tents. so all four of us girls are cramed in this little tent with air mattresses side to side. I was sharing my air mattress with Rachel M. and she asked me what time it was in the middle of the night. I thought it must be atleast 3. But when I looked over I saw that it was 1 am! Our air mattress was flat as a pancack and it was freezing cold. BTW it was the middle of June. I looked over at Rachel and asked her if we should blow up the mattress, I did. We got in the small crack bettween the two mattresses and I blew up the double sized air mattress with my mouth! we went back to sleep and woke up around 4:30 and went to the (thankfully) warm showers. We even put on make-up because we had nothing better to do.

Oh and this whole time... it's snowing! It really was snowing! We came back to the camp and all the guys were up and one of them had gone to the lodge to see the temperature and it had been as low as 25 degrees!! so were we all cold and there was no place that was open, and we had been told on past campouts not to go into the moms trailor untill they let us in. So we ate the fisshy crackers untill the eary riser of the moms let us in around 6:30-7:00 and we all swarmed to the door.

here are some pictures!

It ended up that it snowed the whole day!
And even more funny is the fact that it got progressively hotter all week and we went to eagel crest to play minature golf for Greg's birthday and I came home with a sun burn!

All in all it was a good trip, and the weather was all over the place.

Joelle