So I have been heading up a weekly Ultimate Frisbee game for the youth at church for the last 4 weeks and it has been really fun. It is actually kind of crazy to me that I have been the one in charge of planning and getting the info out about it, I usually get in on other peoples ideas. But yeah 4 weeks and even though our numbers have dropped a little each week those who show up tell me that they have lots of fun and want to know if we are gonna do it the next week, I even had one girl tell me it was the highlight of her week....that was totally awesome but totally surprising as well. To think that some little game that I start up on the weekend has become the highlight of somebodies week, crazy.
All that said I have had some help getting the word out since my church has two campuses and I only help at one of them right now. My buddy Anthony (who loves frisbee also has been there every week with me) has helped tons and even came up with ideas for themes for each week so we could try and give out a prize, but last Saturday was his last time out as he heads back to NAU to start classes this week.
I am gonna try and keep it going since I love to play and hearing some of the reactions of the students it really seems like something worth putting my time (and some money) into. I mean they are already started going out for food or snow-cones afterward and calling it a tradition after only 4 weeks lol.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Bear Canyon Lake
This past weekend was a busy one for me. Friday night I had setup a frisbee night for the youth group at church had a great turn out about 20 kids and some adults. Had a great time played some great ultimate and had some epic plays. It was lots of fun and I might have to plan another one soon. Right after Ultimate was over I ran home took a shower threw some stuff in a bag and headed to bear canyon lake to meet up with my cousin and her husband for a weekend of camping.
I got there at about 11pm, and after frisbee and driving I was pretty tired, but I stayed up, chatted and hung out around the camp fire. I was super excited about that, ever since one of my friends got back from a family vacation and talked about how all her clothes smelled like smoke (from camp fires) I have wanted to go camping so bad, so staying up a little longer was totally worth it.
I am usually a pretty light sleeper and on camping trips that is probably even more true, so Saturday morning I was up around 7am a good 2 hours before the others woke up. With all my extra time I walked around and took some pictures and found some more wood for our camp fire and then sat listening to music for about another hour lol.
After everyone got up and we ate some breakfast we decided to walk down to the lake and check it out. Wasn't to far from out campsite (about a mile). It was a cloudy (and sometimes rainy weekend) so when we got down to the lake I decided to take the short side and check out the dam...I was very disappointed, there was not much of a dam to look at, but the fact that as soon as we got to the dam it started raining pretty heavily on us.
Needless to say by the time we got back to camp we were soaked and so was anything we had left out (my hoodie), but on the bright side it had stopped raining and didn't start again till we were going to bed. We spent the rest of Saturday hanging out and keeping the fire up before calling it a day around 10ish.
Sunday I again woke up at about 7am (even though I thought I had made myself sleep in longer) so I decided to walk around again and take some more pictures trying to be super creative. When everyone woke up we decided a fire wasn't worth it after all the rain that fell the night before so we packed up and headed out.
That would have been the end of the story except on the way home, south bound on the highway 87, there were 2 accidents within a mile of each other, the worse of the two involving 2 horse trailers 4 cars and a semi-truck, which actually stopped traffic for about 30 minutes or more. People started turning off their vehicles and walking around, I only bring this up because it was the first time I have been in traffic where lots of people got out of their cars and walked around. It made me feel like I was in a movie.
I got there at about 11pm, and after frisbee and driving I was pretty tired, but I stayed up, chatted and hung out around the camp fire. I was super excited about that, ever since one of my friends got back from a family vacation and talked about how all her clothes smelled like smoke (from camp fires) I have wanted to go camping so bad, so staying up a little longer was totally worth it.
I am usually a pretty light sleeper and on camping trips that is probably even more true, so Saturday morning I was up around 7am a good 2 hours before the others woke up. With all my extra time I walked around and took some pictures and found some more wood for our camp fire and then sat listening to music for about another hour lol.
After everyone got up and we ate some breakfast we decided to walk down to the lake and check it out. Wasn't to far from out campsite (about a mile). It was a cloudy (and sometimes rainy weekend) so when we got down to the lake I decided to take the short side and check out the dam...I was very disappointed, there was not much of a dam to look at, but the fact that as soon as we got to the dam it started raining pretty heavily on us.
Needless to say by the time we got back to camp we were soaked and so was anything we had left out (my hoodie), but on the bright side it had stopped raining and didn't start again till we were going to bed. We spent the rest of Saturday hanging out and keeping the fire up before calling it a day around 10ish.
Sunday I again woke up at about 7am (even though I thought I had made myself sleep in longer) so I decided to walk around again and take some more pictures trying to be super creative. When everyone woke up we decided a fire wasn't worth it after all the rain that fell the night before so we packed up and headed out.
That would have been the end of the story except on the way home, south bound on the highway 87, there were 2 accidents within a mile of each other, the worse of the two involving 2 horse trailers 4 cars and a semi-truck, which actually stopped traffic for about 30 minutes or more. People started turning off their vehicles and walking around, I only bring this up because it was the first time I have been in traffic where lots of people got out of their cars and walked around. It made me feel like I was in a movie.
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