Today was the first day of the Gathering Band and Singers retreat. The drive there was NOT pleasant. I got on the freeway and it immediately came to a stop due to rain. I was near the toll road exit, so I took it. I am so glad I did because there are fewer cars there. It started raining right away. Some time after the first toll (could not see at all where I was) the downpour started. It also started to hail. I have never driven in hail before. It got so bad I could not see past my hood so for the first time in my life I pulled over...almost everyone did. The rain got worse; the hail got worse. THEN the rain started swirling around and tree branches started flying across the road. There weren't any trees in the area. I decided it was best to start driving out of that...I was not the only one who had that idea because everyone started driving. I finally made it to church and ran inside just as the rain started there (it formed north and headed south--I drove in it nearly the whole time). Then the fun began! We played games, sang, prayed, had devotion, then we set off on a scavenger hunt. We were split up into teams. One person in the team had to wear a dog head in every picture of the item on the list. I had the camera so that was my job. We had to make it from the church to
Discovery Green in an hour...my group was late. Then we went across the street and stayed the night at the
Hilton America's. It was so much fun. Here are some pictures from the scavenger hunt.
This is Adam acting out the stop sign.
Creative use of leap frog
Jesus spelled out creatively
Bunny hop in front of CVS
This is most of the heads at Discovery Green.
Can you tell how much fun this had to be?
We also had our Gathering/11am Musicians Christmas party. We got to go caroling...lots of fun! This is a photo of two of my good buddies---Jana and Margaret.
