Every year, my church has a men's retreat in September. And every year since I started going to this
church, it's fallen on the same weekend as the Survivor Mud Run. Well, that mud run appears to be no more
(which is no surprise with how little work they've put into it the last two
years), so that meant I was free to go this year.
The retreat was up at Thousand Pines, a Christian camp
outside of Crestline. I'd never been
there, but my church goes up there for many camps, so I'd heard about it. It was nice to finally see it.
I left work a little early on Friday to carpool up with some
other men from the church. We got there
not too long before dinner was supposed to be over, but we were in time to get
food and dessert. As a church, we
occupied two sides of a more recently built cabin that had our own bathroom and
lots of plugs, which was great since we all had our phones plugged in every
night. Not that I used my phone for much
since I had lousy reception up there.
There was the usual camp stuff. I never did find the pool, but they have
volleyball and basketball and a climbing wall and a zip line. I tried the climbing wall, but I only made it
half way up before I freaked out and climbed back down. The zip line looked like fun, but you had to
climb the wall to be able to go on it.
Naturally, an ultimate Frisbee game broke out at one point. I started going to this church after meeting
several of the men playing ultimate after all.
The messages were good, but they could have been
better. I think that was my biggest
disappointment.
I'm certainly ready to go again. I hope the mud run is truly dead or they pick
a different weekend for it if it comes back.
