Busy Week Back

My computer is finally internet-enabled, so I thought I'd leave a little update and stretch it out as long as possible. Oooh. . . and with pictures!

OK, so last weekend we trekked a journey (that sounds kind of fun. . . "trekked a journey") up to northern reaches of the greatest state in the Union (no, not Texas) to the incredibly scorching hot city of Redding (hmm. . . pun-worthy? Nah!) for my friend Nate Gunter's wedding to Abby Nall (of course, now she's Mrs. Gunter).

There ended up being 7 of us staying at our friend Kent Roberts' house. As my buddy Brian Baughman noted later on: "The place was straight out of a country music song." Seriously, there were shotguns out, a yellow lab, 40 acres of land, a sizable front porch, etc. We stayed there Friday and Saturday night and most of Saturday was spent skeet-shooting, napping, reading, chillin', etc.

Firing a shotgun was definitely a testosterone-assuring experience. Even though I did not actually hit any clay pigeons (much to my shame and eternal disgrace), it was fun to feel the bruises on my shoulder from the kick of the shotgun.

The wedding was held at 6 p.m. and the weather was still hovering at approximately 95 degrees. Yeah, so I was sweating profusely. I mean, my armpits were a much darker blue than the rest of my snazzy shirt. And I had to repeatedly take off my sunglasses and wipe the sweat out of my bushy eyebrows.

Surprise! Leslie Spoon, who went to Israel with me, was in the wedding!! I was totally surprised and completely forgot that she had gone to school with Kent and Abby. So that was fun to see my Hezekiah's Tunnel Buddy.

We've done a lot in RA Retreat so far, but I'll wait till tomorrow or Saturday to update about that.