Thursday, May 7, 2009

Canada, Eh?

Ahhh... just returned from the great state of Canada... or, rather, the country (whichever you prefer) for Canadian Adventure. Nice ride up, long ride back, and tons of good stuff in between. Most of the crew went up Sunday morning, but Ivy and I stayed back to go to the Quest banquet (which turned out awesome). Ivy and I headed up Monday morning, got a good early start at 5 AM (yeah, I was up that early), and had great weather for the drive up there. We made pretty good time and got to our destination pretty early (about 1 or 2pm ET). Camp is way in the middle of nowhere, there's actually no roads that go to the camp, so you gotta take a boat to it. So we were supposed to get picked up from a gas station, but we had to sit around for like an hour waiting for them. But that was A ok! We eventually made it to the camp and all was well.

While we were there, we made a new trail, hunted some chicken-like-creatures (but didn't catch any), climbed Mount Sinai, had a 3 hour solo time, burned some tree stumps, worshipped God, studied God's word, and just hung out! What a great time, I was sad to leave, but I'm glad to be back here too.

Mount Sinai was one of the coolest things. We climbed these hills/cliffs/mountains that were about 600 or 700 feet tall. At the top, there's this huge flat-ish rock that overlooks the Montreal River and a dam that camp is next to. What a view! I'll try to get some pics up on FB soon.

I was really looking forward to seeing the starts up in that remote area (the nearest hospital is like 2 hours away, same for groceries). But I was slightly disappointed to see a nearly full moon, blasting it's light through the night sky. I see more stars in Kenosha than I could there. Stupid moon. C'est la vie.

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