XA Ladies Camping Trip

I just returned from an amazing camping trip with a group of ladies from Chi Alpha. We left yesterday afternoon and drove just over 2 hours to St. Andrews Recreational Park. After arriving, we set up 7 tents before it got too dark and started chili for dinner. The students began arriving shortly after and we split the group up into 7 teams by colors. I was in the yellow tent with two students. We ate chili in Frito bags and salad for dinner around the campfire. After dinner, the teams participated in different activities, such as coming up with a team name, making a flag, making up a song, and doing a scavenger hunt with candy. We also had worship, lead by one of our students, and a devotional time with Robin; she encouraged us to invest in one another as women of God and the importance of having Godly women around us. We hung around the fire, talking and making s'mores, before going to bed.

Saturday morning, I woke up to the tent cover sliding off about 7am (central time). It made the tent a slightly cooler and a little brighter, but I dozed off for a few more minutes (til the dumpster people came to empty the dumpster close to our camp sight). My tent was in charge of preparing breakfast. We heated pre-cooked bacon over the fire, cooked eggs on a griddle, and tried heating biscuits over the fire before deciding to use the griddle. We also had quite a bit of s'more ingredients left over, so we decided to eat those for breakfast as well. We played a few more tent games before packing all of our stuff up and heading to the beach. We were able to explore the beach for a while, including the rocks that had been brought in and made into a levy. We also had a devotion with Carmen, who encouraged us to fight like a girl (using some ideas from a book with the same name and Isaiah 58:9-12). We went back to the cars for lunch and had an interesting time trying to keep the birds away as well as the bees coming after cups of soda. There were some group bonding games planned, but some students needed to leave early to get back for work/homework and a lot of them were tired. We decided to leave early and head back to Tallahassee. My car had a lot of fun driving down and back, playing games like "Would you rather," singing to one another, and laughing. I put some pictures up on my Facebook page

I am so grateful that God has blessed me with this opportunity to intern here at FSU and be able to go on trips like this. I also am grateful that He has blessed me with so many wise and wonderful women to learn so much from.