wickywicky wilderness 08!

Life has been crazy busy and crazy fun and I am just now finding the time to sit down and try to remember all the adventures I have been on since Labor Day...

My friends and I decided to take a very last minute camping trip on Labor Day down to Hocking Hills... the car ride with Emily, Jy, and Greg might have been the highlight of the trip. Greg is learning how to drive in the city of Columbus (I can't imagine Boston is much different), and it's an adventure in itself. We took a couple of wrong turns, drove up a one way street with four lanes of oncoming traffic, cruised up on sidewalks, and I am sure hit a few people before we made it down to hocking.

We arrived after dark to our hike in campsite... armed with beer, burgers, hotdogs, spicy mustard, cinnamon rolls, and our 10 person mash style tent. It was beautiful. Except we didn't know what our site number was, couldn't check in becuase it was closed, and didn't have cell phone service to communicate with Jonny and Kelly on their way. Who knows how we managed but we did. The girls started on the tent... the boys worked on the fire... and in no time we were up and running. When Kelly and Jonny finally found us we were really ready to party. We cooked up some dinner and enjoyed the peace, community, stillness, and beauty of the hocking hills.

We fit snugly into our ten man tent and even managed to play a few rounds of steam roller. The morning was a good one... we cooked out and ate some more hotdogs and hamburgers for breakfast (yuck). Eventually we set out to do some hiking in the old mans cave...

We managed to lose emily to the old man which turned into an adventure inside an adventure. we hit up some awesome soft serve ice cream on the way out of hocking and made it back to columbus a happy group of people! While we were down in hocking we did some dreaming out loud together... somehow the dreaming out loud led us to deciding to start a week long experiment of living in the same quarters. haha. so that we did. Kel, Em, and I packed out belongings for one week... and set out.

3 boys... 3 girls...

joining forces for a week long slumber in Franklinton Ohio, conquering the streets one dance party at a time...

Interested? I bet you are. The Labor Day camping trip I took with my community family inspired a week long experiment that we are in the midst of.

I'll leave it at that until I can collect my thoughts and pictures because I need to get in the shower so I can enjoy Houndogs with my new roommates...

It's Buckeye time...

... and that means fun!

I'm going to start a revolution from my bed...

I have recently been thinking how great it would be if I could pause at age 23 and stay there for the rest of my life.





Life has been so fun and so enjoyable this summer. It has been adventure after adventure this summer with my friends and I can't get over how fun I think life is.





We've been learning what it means to live out the gospel in out own ways and together. We may have a different way of doing it, we may have different defintions of community, church, and communion... but that is why life has been so enjoyable. Living out the gospel with your friends and with the least of these has me so thankful that my life is what it is. I am so thankful that my life includes the people it does...





Friday night we went down to Shakesphere in the park... emily and I rode our bikes down... picked up some wine at the local Kroger... and met up with Jonny, Jonathan, Kelly, Greg and the others for the play. We didn't get very far before a storm hit, really bad, so we took cover under a tree. We played around for a bit... attempting to build shelter. We lost a few members here and there and before I knew it, Kelly, Jonny, Jonathan and I were playing in the pouring rain. We had a dance party... a cartwheel contest... we ran... we spun... we got up on the stage and performed... and felt extreme joy in laughter.





We finally decided to take shelter in a nearby building where we considered spending the night at...

Once the storms settled down we decided to head back... thankfully the boys rode emily and i's bikes back to f-ton.

The only logical thing to do after a night like that was to head back to the boys and have a dance party... wet... and that we did. It may have been one of the best dance parties of all times. We eventaully all ended up on the floor (after our circle/ hand holding dance) where we then laid for a hour or two talking.

The safeness of love, acceptance, laughter, and fun in these friendships is refreshing. It's great to have friends who can be weird with you...

Triathlete in completion...

The much awaited triathlon finally arrived... and I did it! It was extremely hard... but I am thankful for the wonderful team that I had to do it with...

Us swimmers just before the race...My partner in crime... and my strength the entire day

My wonderful team of friends! It was 90 degrees by the time we started the 14 mile bike... which made it pretty miserable but we finsished it and that was the goal!

I took a week off... but now its back on for more training for our tri in October!

woot woot.

Triathletesforlife.