The bus ride down seemed pretty dang short, mostly because I slept almost the whole way. We got to Snow College, ate lunch, and headed to our dorms. They were very spacious dorms- bigger than any I've ever stayed in. Five single bedrooms, a full kitchen, three bathrooms, and a front room. Dang, if only my future dorm was that big...
In the afternoon, we headed up to the ropes course where we split into groups and headed off. My group started with my least favorite challenge- the wall. We had to get our entire team up and over a 12 ft. wall. I
pretty much suck at climbing, that's why I initially didn't want to do it. As our team progressed and things got funnier, I had a blast. The last kid had to get up on his own; he tried climbing up Tyson's legs as Tyson dangled from the top, he tried running up the wall and catching the hands of the three kids at top, and he tried running and grabbing on a belt that the three top helpers were dangling down. The belt snapped. Eventually, after getting a sturdier belt, he latched on, and the three lifted him over the wall. Cheers followed.Some of our other challenges were the Catwalk, where one had to climb a tree, walk across a log suspended in air, and walk across a wire and try to grab dangling ropes that got farther and farther apart. I didn't do this one because there wasn't enough time. There was also "Dangling Duos," which seem pretty dang intense. Two people had to climb this giant dangling ladder and honk the horn at the top. The catch was that only one person could use the ropes as help, and the other person was only allowed to use the first person as a way to get up. It looked HARD. I didn't get to do this, because once again we ran out of time.
After many different challenges, we headed back to the buses to go down. One group was still at their rotation, and I wanted to go on it so bad. It was the giant swing. I saw that Tess and Aubrey were down there, so I headed down to watch. What the swing entailed was one person was harnessed to a series of ropes that a group of people would hold onto and run. The harnessed person would fly up in the air, and sometimes jerk violently from the force of the people running the ropes. Jealous! I wanted to go on it so bad.The next few days followed with water games, field games, food, testimony meeting, a dance, and lots of card games. I was so stinkin tired; I almost skipped the dance to go to sleep... but I didn't. I'm not much of a dance person, so it wouldn't have mattered to me.
Me, Liz, Tess, and Aubrey all slept in Tess and Aubrey's dorm that night. Well, if you call it sleeping. We made a slide down the staircase of mattresses and played B.S. until the late recesses of night. I was so tired and delusional that I was having uncontrollable fits of laughter. We all passed out.
The best part was that the day we got back, I had a baby shower, family reunion, and birthday party to go to. It was a long day.
