New Experiences

So....I climbed a mountain. No, not one of those silly hills in CT, a real live green rocky mountain! No joke. I seriously thought we climbed a million feet up but in reality only ten thousand. When we got halfway, I was thinking, "You're joking! This is only the halfway spot?" Oh boy, we got a ways to go still. The view was spectacular when we arrived at the camp site but the trek.....oh goodness.

While we were up there in tents, it rained. I mean RAINED, big fat droplets along with thunder that sounded like someone dropped a huge metal bowl right next to you. One of the other tents had to be moved because a puddle decided to form underneath. Thank goodness we didn't have to move ours. I was exhausted and so I took a long nap.

Glad someone woke me up for dinner but was not happy that it was indeed still raining. Sigh. We had the most interesting food....freeze dried. Yeah, I had freeze dried lasagna. All I can honestly say is that it was interesting. Would I volunteer to have it again...NOPE. But it didn't make me gag. Unless I didn't gag because I was starving. Who knows.

Now I've been camping in the woods before with family and my Girl Scout troop but it was nothing compared to this. Nada. Carrying a huge backpack up a mountain for three hours is not my idea of a good time. No, I'd rather read. But regardless of my sweaty tired experience climbing a real mountain and camping out on it, I have to say seeing God's creation up close like this is breathtaking.