Youth Group Trip to the Poconos!

Ciao amici!

It's been a couple days since I've posted here, and there's a logical reason why. On Friday night, my youth group and I trucked it up to northeast Pennsylvania to the mountains, where we would stay until Sunday afternoon. The ride up there was painstakingly long, almost 4 hours with rain pouring down the whole way there. We got to the cabin around 11 or 11:30, and I assumed we would just go straight to bed after everyone divided amongst the rooms. But no.

To give you a little visual, we had 4 rooms, each with 2 sets of bunk beds, a queen bed, and a full bathroom. There were only 16 of us total, so we had some extra bunk beds. What we ended up doing with them was anything but sleeping, though. We ended up stripping 3 of the mattresses and building a slide down the staircase with them.

After about 30 minutes of sliding, climbing, and taking each other out from the knees, we took the mattresses back up stairs, ate junk food, and went to bed. 

When we woke up the next morning and ate breakfast (we go hard when it comes to food) and had one of our three lessons for the weekend. After that, we set up the coolest, most epic game of "the floor is lava". If you're over the age of 18 and don't know what this game is, it's when you set up something like chairs, pillows, couches, etc. and hop from object to object. If you touch the floor (the lava), you die. So we set that up with 30+ dining room chairs, but instead of running around until you fell, we played freeze tag. It ended up looking a little something like this...

Excuse my horribly evil cackle when my youth leader misses the chair halfway through the video.

Just a recap of the stuff that aren't major enough to write a paragraph and bore you to tears, I'll list the notable fun things we did/happened.

1. We went mini-golfing, where we were the only ones. My youth leader, who loves to golf, set up on the 13th hole and tried to hit them into the 15th hole. We ended up hitting a golf ball against a large rock, into the sky, and off a cliff. OOPS.
2. We ate dinner. While eating, we had 5 deer in our front yard, about 20 feet from our door.
3. We made crepes. I forgot to mention, we had a French exchange student with us. She was awesome! So we all made our own crepes, and she taught us to flip them in air. I was one of 2 people who could get a double flip out of theirs, thank you very much. 
4. We made a mosh pit of pillows and mattresses and watched a movie. 
5. We ate the crepes we made the night before. Ice cream crepes, ham and cheese crepes, nutella, peanut butter, strawberry, chocolate crepes....

And that's about it.

Looking towards Italy, I got my Passport in the mail today!!!!! Eeeee, it's so little and adorable. On Friday I also got a load of paperwork from AFS, which is more like a gigantic fun research project. YAY! I SERIOUSLY LOVE RESEARCH!

Arrivederci!