Instead of talking about sad things lets talk about the rest of my wonderful summer. yes, lets.
my family (minus alex and eric) took our annual Massachusetts trip and spent a week up there visiting relatives...hanging at my grandparents house, going to the Victorian Station Cafe ( My aunt and Uncles coffee shop), swimming at the neighbors pool, big family dinners....but I spent most of my time, Sewing, sewing, and sewing some more. For my thirteenth birthday my grandma came down for a visit and for my birthday present we went shopping for a pattern and fabric to make a quilt (she's a big quilter). Well we only got as far as cutting most of the fabric before she had to go home to MA, and the quilt was slowly forgotten about. Well earlier on this summer I decided that the quilt was something I wanted to finish before I graduated (knowing if it would probably never get completed after) so while we were up there (4 years later) I took it all out and spent the week cutting, stitching, ripping the stitches, stitching again, ironing, folding, and assembling. I almost finished it but ran out of time. But my awesome grammy is finishing up the boarder, taking it to a long arm quilter, and finishing it up with the binding! She's gonna mail it to me in a couple weeks, and I can nottttt wait to see it. I love it. :)
On the way home from MA, my family dropped me off at Liberty University for World View Academy Leadership Camp. Basically, one of the best weeks of my life. Best camp anyone could ever go to. legit. Going into the week I wasn't really sure what to expect, not really knowing anything about worldview academy. Well let meee tell youuu, God showed me so much in that one week then he ever has at any other camp I've been too. I learned so much about everything! literally. How to better defend my faith, what it means to be a true leader, how to approach other religions with your own, how many different worldviews there are out there, what it means to be a true christian, how to detect fallacies, and so so much more. My small group (which conveniently enough were my sweet mates, were all hilarious, kind, and we all just learned so much from each other) Our small group leader, Michelle, was basically the best small group leader ever in the world of small group leaders. it's the truth. She was so awesome and outwardly passionate about God, full of wisdom and hilarious comments. I loved her so much! My favorite part of camp though for me, was when we all loaded up into charter buses and went down town Lynchburg, and got to witness to the people on the street. My "group" of three got talkng to this one young man for almost an hour, and got to share Jesus with him, it was amazing. He lived at the Lynchburg Rescue Mission, and was just very confused about what it meant to be a christian and follow after Jesus, he even took out a bible out of his bag and tried to show us different scripture he was twisting into his own words. He took what I think is the most awesomest track I have ever seen, and I pray that we were able to be a light to him, and help him understand what it means to be a believer of Jesus Christ.
The following week, my family loaded up in the van, trailer hooked up and went to Kentucky for a week. Yes, I know...one might think. What's in kentucky? Well. Humidity, butterflies, 300 miles of cave, a creation museum, and an Old Navy/Gap/Banana Republic clearance warehouse...that's what. We spent 2 days at Mammoth Cave National Park, exploring caves (well it's actually one big cave...the largest cave in the world known to man....they have about 300 miles mapped out....but think that their could be up to 800) It was amazing...and I loved it...and not just because it was 50 degrees cooler in the cave then in the air above ground. We went on three different tours...each being about 2-3 hours long...and a couple miles long. The first tour we went almost 300 feet underground...and let me tell you, it's a good thing I'm not afraid of heights, otherwise I would of peed my pants descending down into the cave. The second tour we got to eat lunch at a small "cafeteria" 250 feet under ground, and then third tour was a lantern tour, 40 people, the only lighting were10 old gas lanterns we carried with us. It was supposed to help you feel like the men who first explored the caves, and see it from their perspective. It. was. awesome.
Then we went and spent three days up near Cincinnati and went to the Creation Museum. The creation museum was really good! anddd they had really pretty gardens. The rest of the week we just hung around the camp site, reading, napping, made a trip to the clearance wear house - $9 jeans - heck to the yes! Thanks Mrs. Campbell for the great tip!
Now over this three week crazy time period, I was ill. yes. ill. I got the worst ear infection I've ever had while in MA, and over three weeks I went to three different Urgent Cares in three different states, went through three different antibiotics, 3 different ear drops, and a decongestant. It would tease me and feel like it was getting better and then all of a sudden, POW, knife in the ear once again. I'm so happy it's all gone, and I never want it to come back, or I will have to punch something.Then we came home...jumping right into volleyball, classes starting a few weeks later.
I liked my summer. It was a good summer. But honestly I feel like as you get older summer gets shorter...I remember being little and summer lasted forever! and I'd be asking when we could start school again. It snuck away on me this year...stinky.
COMMENCE SENIOR YEAR......
