//CerealKiller\\'s Blog

Dateline: 2/27/2008

"Give me a reason to end this discussion, To break with tradition, to fold and divide."

Posted At 10:31 PM
Posted in: Youth Group Rants and Raves

" 'Cause I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplanes,
Talking with strangers, waiting in line.
I'm through with these pills that make me sit still.
Are you feeling fine?
Yes, I feel just fine."

Everything is Alright - Motion City Soundtrack

Well, it's about time I blog again. Considering that I've been back from my trip for over a week. Heh. =D I just don't usually have time to post. Either that or I don't think of it. So, not much has been happening recently. My computer had some little virus thingie, but I think it deleted it. =D I love macs. If it didn't delete it, then it quarantined it well enough. I haven't experienced any problems recently. Which is good. Except my keyboard's "o" key broke, so I had to replace it. So, anyway, here's what happened on the Beach Trip.

Feb 15th: I got up to the church around 12:40 PM. We were supposed to leave at 1:00. However, after getting everyone's stuff in, it was around 1:30. We left then. The trip down was pretty uneventful, but it wasn't boring. When you're in a van with 15+ other people, it doesn't have much time to get boring. But it wasn't really anything to blog about. Eh. Oh well. We got to Hilton Head around 5:15 or so. We were in a place called Sea Pines, on Royal Tern rd, and our houses were like right next to the beach, which was pretty sweet. And I rented a bike while I was there, which made it even more fun. The bike trails over there are awesome. Some of them twist and turn which makes them a lot of fun to bike on. Anyway, after we got there, we unpacked and explored the houses. We the guys decided that the girl's house was a LOT nicer than the guy's house. The girl's house had a neutral smell, but the guy's had a musty odor. And the girl's house had about 7 bathrooms, but the guy's had 3. =P But I hardly spent any time inside the houses, and we ate our meals and had our lessons at the girl's house. And I hardly spent any time in our room. (We were each assigned a room with 1 or 2 other people. I had a room with two other people, and two beds. So I slept on a couch upstairs. The houses were HUGE. Like ginormous. But we got there, explored them, and then after the next group arrived (The people who couldn't get out of school that Friday) we ate. We had ham and pork loin. Ham was good. :d I had no pork loin, which was the second wisest choice I made on that trip (Wisest was buying Fish flavored candy DON'T ASK). So that night all the girls migrated to our hot tub because theirs wasn't working. And then two of the older guys in our youth group threw someone into the pool. It was freezing. lol I know because later on they tried to throw me in. But I did it voluntarily. Seriously, I lost feeling in my legs. IT.WAS.COLD. Like ice cubes. Except worse because it was water. So then I got into the hot tub with everyone else. Cause now everyone was in it. =P And then the patrol people in the community came and told us to be quiet or we would have to pay a $1000 fine for being too loud. We used that threat throughout the whole trip. =P But we never had to pay it. We never got loud enough I guess. And then later that night I got ready to go to bed (Wound up being 1 AM =D) but didn't sleep in our room. I slept on a couch upstairs in my sleeping bag. OMG IT WAS SO COMFORTABLE =DDDDD I liked it a lot.

Feb 16th: Had to get up at 8:45 to eat break fast. We had pancakes and ham. =d There was a pattern throughout the trip. Whenever we had a new meal, there was always food from the previous meal out there. So our last meal was huge. lol After we finished eating, I learned that everyone who had eaten the pork loin the night before had had cramps during the night. So here is where my picky eating helped =D And then we had our lesson. All of our lessons were about Heaven and Hell. Then at 12 we had lunch, which was hot dogs. :d I loved all of the meals. =D Then we had free time. First on my priority list, was bike riding. It wasn't that much fun on the beach, but there were small hills on the trails which were fun. then I returned, and everyone was playing soccer. So I figured I'd join in. It was a lot of fun. =D I scored 3 or so goals, which was the most of anyone playing. Which i surprising cause I hadn't played in 6 years. But then the inevitable happened. I went to kick the ball or try to get it away from someone on the other team, and we kicked each other's feet. I was wearing shoes, but they're not sturdy at all. So, my toe got jammed. So I quietly left the game and went up to the house. Ironically, I was the only one there because everyone was playing Soccer. =P So, I soaked my toe for more than an hour in the ice cold pool. Then everyone returned. Then they all got into the hot tub and I joined in with my legs and alternated from hot to ice cold. Which was good. ^_^ It made me not have a sad anymore. But it still hurt like crazy and got REALLY swelled. I took a comparing photo, but it's still on the camera. Will edit when I upload it. It's disturbing. =P But anyway, after that we had dinner. Took a little while to walk there, but I made it. lol It was lasagna. And hot dogs (See the pattern? =D). I ate mostly hot dogs. They were really good. And then we had another lesson. After that we went to the hot tub again. Afterwards, we all separated to our separate houses. It's really boring in the guy's house. Because we don't do anything. 4 people brought their guitars, and they played them every night. One person could do the solo from One by Metallica, and another one of them could do the tapping in Eddie Van Halen's Eruption second 0:57-1:05 (Yes I checked it =P). Another one could do Sum 41 and blink-182 songs. So it was sort of like a concert.... all at the same time. Which was interesting. And that night I went to bed at 2.

Feb 17th: I woke up around 8:45 again, and we went to Church. The ride over there was interesting. And fairly funny. I was in the car with all the 17-18 year olds lol. And we followed close behind the other car with our youth group, and whenever we stopped we tried throwing mints to them. I don't think we ever got one to them. Oh well. And then we finally arrived after getting lost. It was a fun Church. (Random time quote: wow Addy's peoplephobic) But after it was done we went back and almost got pulled over by a cop. Which was kind of funny xD When we arrived back at the house we ate lunch, which was... well I forgot what the rest of the meals were. Then we had more free time. I went to the Salty Dog Cafe on my bike. It was about a mile away. =D On the way there I saw an Alligator, which was cool. Got a picture of him below. I got the fish flavored candy there. Later that night I managed to give it to someone. The result was comical. hehehee. But that night we moved all of the furniture back to where it was originally, packed, and cleaned.

Feb 18th: Had to wake up earlier, but didn't, so I almost missed breakfast. MORE PANCAKES om nom nom nom. So that day it was raining, which sucked. But we got all of the stuff loaded, and then we left around 1:30. Not much happened that day. I was in a very boring car with no legroom. >_< Not enjoyable. And we took back roads the whole way. I WAS BORED OUT OF MY MIND. But then we finally got back, went back home, etc. We went out to eat that night =D Which was cool.

So yeah that was the trip. And nothing has happened in the past week, except that I ordered a CD and a Wireless GH3 controller for the PS2. And I get to go to a party tomorrow. *Happy happy happy* And now here are pictures from the trip. Note: I got hardly any of the girl's house. I in actuality was nicer than the guys, but due to limited time in it, I didn't get many of it. Yes, it had a hot tub and pool, which were finally heated on Sunday. lol

Alligator I saw on the way to the Salty Dog:

Girl's house exterior:

Staircase (Pointless, I know):

Kitchen:

Place where the guys ate (Girls got the table in the kitchen, this was right next to it. no dividing walls or anything though =P):

Guy's house exterior:

Pool and rear of house (Room in top left of photo is main living area, couch where I slept is right there, you can barely see it):

Staircase 1 and 2 (Same staircase, different angles):

Main living area upstairs (See couch in back right and porch where second to last photo is taken):

Couch where I slept (You can see it in the previous pic in the way back):

Main living area downstairs (Right below the one upstairs, sliding doors lead out to the pool):

My room where I spent none of my time:

View from deck right next to where my bed was (See hot tub and chair for scale =D):

Kitchen:

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