Dull Summer

This might just be one of the dullest summers I have hand in over10 years. Not much going on. Here, let me review the past 10 years and why those summers have been very exciting

1997

• One week of Prairie Camp
• Jr. High day trip to Cedar Point(hated roller coasters)
• Jr. High Summer Get-a-way -
  -One day at a water park
  -One day at Kings Island
  -a day at the mall(weird for a youth trip)
• Family vacation to Northern Michigan.
  Activities included:
  -visiting family, family reunion or something
  -Mackinac
  - shopping
  -beaches
  - campfires

1998

• Jr. High Cedar Point day trip
  -started riding roller coasters
• Family vacation to Florida
  -Basic Sarasota stuff
  -Busch Gardens
• Went with a family to Oklahoma to babysit their kids
  -Wasn't best trip I went on
  -Highlight was watching a live musical of Oklahoma outdoors at some place that I don't remember, but it was pretty cool
• Jr. High Summer Get-A-Way
  -day at the Beach water park
  -day at Kings Island(with sounds of the Supertones in the background...weird)
  -day at Cincinnati Zoo

1999

• Jr. High day Cedar Point
• Family vacation to Gatlinburg, Tennessee
  -Dixie Stampede
  -Hike up the mountain trails
• Cornerstone
  -First year at C-Stone
  -Awesome music
  -Stryper or Five Iron Frenzy? Live CD?
  -I even saw Derry Prenkert
• SEMP Chicago '99
  -probably the second best trip I've been on with youth group
  -awesome God changing trip, learned some much
  -Shawn LaRue set off fire alarms(not really)
  -Truffle Shuffle in "negative"???
• Get-A-Way
  -Day at Cinergy Field for one of the worst baseball games I've ever been to, Reds vs. Cards
  -Day at Kings Island
  -Day at the Beach

2000

• SEMP Toronto
  -wasn't as good as Chicago(for me, I didn't get much out of it)
  -still an amazing trip and in the top 5 or 6 from church trips
  -Canada Eh?
• Cornerstone 2000
  -Jeff Simpson? something paper plate?
  -Cowboys or Five Iron Frenzy? Bake beans and cream corn?
• Summer Camp
  -Day at Camp
  -Day at Cedar Point(Millennium Force opens and I'm not so scared of coasters)
  -Day at some Sports City, Go-cart place or something. Unlimited go-carts and mini golf

2001

• IMPACT Peru
  -number one trip I've ever been on!
  -great mission team
  -awesome miracles
  -God changed my life and how I looked at missions and other countries
  -FAITH
  -I love these people
  -dancing for Jesus
  -Healings, including me being healed and then dancing and praising God
• Cornerstone
• Summer Camp
  -Day at Camp
  -Day at Cedar Point
  -Day at Soak City
  -something with a video camera in the middle of the night? I don't know
  -when I got to really get to know Justin Blackwood(big highlight)

2002

• Cornerstone
  -I guess Martin Ufkin was with us
  -final Ghoti Hook show = sad
• Summer Camp
  -Cedar Point
  -Soak City
  -something involving water balloons in middle of the night or something

2003

• Senior Trip Retreat to Cedar Point
• IMPACT Peru
  -probably tied for second greatest trip(with SEMP 99)
  -awesome spiritual changes
  -overcoming a lot of tough challenges
  -Cameron Bradley
  -Justin Blackwood and oreos or something?
• July - Oct. working at Cedar Point
  -hanging out with youth when the came to park
  -making some new friends
  -riding the Magnum XL-200 whenever I wanted(if I wasn't working)

2004

• May - Oct. working again at Cedar Point
  -Fun, new friends
  -one bad thing, Relation with God was at a very low
  

2005

• Cedar Point/Camping over Memorial Day weekend
  -With Nate & Jolyn and my sister
  -MaxAir at Cedar Point
• Help out with summer small group(Freshman guys)
• Summer Camp
  -this time around a leader
  -awesome trip
  -very fun
  -Zombie?
  -Connected to God
  -Disconnected from rubbish
  -awesome small group time

2006

• Cedar Point/Camping with Kevin
  -Locked in T.G.I. Fridays
  -Truckers welcome?
  -SkyHawk
• Cincinnati Trip
  -another trip with Nate, Jolyn, and Kayla
  -Kings Island
  -Cubs vs. Reds
  -camped in small cabin
  -CUBS WIN!!!
• Summer Camp as leader, Round 2
  -Best Summer Camp EVER!!!
  -Millennium Force line in the rain
  -JUMP!!!
• Six Flags Great America
  -guy loses cell phone and it was pretty funny
  -Viper
  -Raging Bull
• Cedar Point again?
  -Meeting up with Pawel, a friend from Poland who worked in 2004
  -Sleeping in a Meijer Parking lot
  -Hanging out with some old friends
  -Something about me and I died on Millennium Force or something

Yeah, there are some fun things this summer such as

• Cedar Point
• Cubs game

But no big trips to look forward to. I was really disappointed about not going to Summer Camp and I guess that's the big difference for this summer. I was really looking forward to it! I just noticed that this will be my first year that I won't be involved somehow with summer camp. When I worked at Cedar Point, I would hang out with the group when the came. It was fun!

So I guess I should just plan trip or something to make this summer more interesting! I need to get out of here for longer than 24 hours. I need a vacation away. Maybe upper Michigan or something. I'll see what I can do!

Yeah...the Cubs are doing AWESOME!!! Man, I should have put some pictures up and made some links or something in this post...but no... I'm just too lazy! Sorry!

bye bye beautiful