Forbidden Island

After church today I got to relax a bit and do some gaming with Stephen. I was a bit worried about the internet connection but everything played smoothly. What a great technological age we live in.

I'm writing this post from my phone in the church parking lot because I have nothing to do and home is like two minutes away and I felt I needed to prepare myself for the long trip home. Plus all I have at home is my computer, games movies... wait, what an I still doing here? Anyway I am in the church parking lot because we just got back from a hike to a place called Forbidden Island. The Islands Your group does a hike every now and then. It was a neat hike almost all downhill. Of course if you go down eventually you have to come back up.

 This picture is from the half way point. It was a great day for a hike. We got to the bottom and did some exploring.

There was this one place that had a underwater cave like thing. It's usually pretty full.

After playing around here for a bit, the few of us that ventured off to the cave headed back to the group. We timed it pretty well, they were starting to leave right as we arrived. I had finished my water off by the time I got the bottom so I didn't have any for the trek up. Oops. The first part was no trouble for me but as it got steeper I got more exhausted. However I was challenged to go all the way without stopping for a rest and I didn't want to fail that challenge. I didn't know to the next time I would be able to attempt it again. Little did I know... After most of us made it to the top we got word that one of the people was having issues. I volunteered to run back down and discovered they were running low on water so I ran back up to refill the water bottles. When I got back down with the refilled bottles I was rewarded with a great view.



We got back to the church where everyone had parked, I had a bunch of people in the bed of the pickup. I guess they didn't care for my driving so much so I guess I need to think about putting some nice seat cushions back there or something.

Event though today had a lot of cool stuff. Some not so great stuff is happening and I would appreciate all the prayers I can get. Thanks for all your support and I hope things are going well in California or what ever part of the country and world you are reading this from. And if your at Rio and having tech trouble right before school, just unplug it and plug it back in. That should fix it. Well time to go. I'm starting to get hungry. Everyone have a blessed Sabbath.

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