Tuesday, July 21, 2009

...I know but I'm not telling.....not yet, anyway.

This is coming from Dale Hollow lake in Tennessee. We're on our "Journey On "trip, which is a discipleship retreat for rising Seniors and Juniors in High School. This is our 5th year doing it.
The 1st year we went to California and spent the week - half the time in L.A. and Malibu and the other half in Yosemite.
2nd year - HAWAII !
3rd year -a house on the coast of Maine.
Last year - Pigeon Forge, Tenn. "Myrtle beach of the Mountains".
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This year - 6 days on an 83 ft. house boat on gorgeous Dale Hollow lake. Don"s cousin Micky owns the houseboat and he and his wife are wonderful hosts.
We take the house boat and beach it in a cove out away from the marina. Then we can be as loud as we want.
Our schedule:
9 -WAKE UP AND BREAKFAST
9:45 QUIET TIME
10:15 VIDEO SESSION
11:30 INDIVIDUAL STUDY AND DISCUSSION
12:30 LUNCH
1:00 PLAY HARD THE REST OF THE DAY

8:00 NIGHT SESSION

Micky has a 26 ft ski boat that we tube and wake board with. He's also got a jet ski on the back of the houseboat (Micky rolls big). We've been running all of them pretty wide open all afternoon.

We"re going through the 1st 6 chapters of Daniel. The discussions have been good. The youth have also done a great job of memorizing Scripture so far this week.

Last night we built a fire on the beach beside the houseboat and had worship out there. So nice.

The tubing has been insane. One big tube and a normal size tube makes for big fun.
The guys like to play "Hammerhead".
That's where every body gets on the big one and lets the other one fly around and hit them repeatedly.
They also play Attacker and Defender.
3 people on each tube. One tube is attackers and the other tube is two defenders and one target.
1 point for either successfully defending or tossing the target. 1st one to 3 wins.

We're in the marina right now emptying waste tanks, filling up water and charging batteries. That's why I've got wireless to do this.

It"s Tuesday and we're here 'til Sat. morning. t
Then we head to Nashville for a night out and home on Sun.

Connie and Micky"s wife Jane are cooking for us and doing a bang up job. The meals have been tremendous and every time we turn around the snacks coming at us.

Right now the big mystery is who opened the chocolate icing and ate a third of it. There was a note in it that says"sorry we ate it. Haley and Chamberlain"

They're claiming set up. Who really ate it?........

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