Saturday. It's finally here. My week wasn't bad by any means, so I wasn't just waiting for the weekend to get here so my week could be over. On the contrary, really. But for some reason, I had spent most of this week awake, and I slept much less than I should have. So basically, I was excited to sleep in. Just a little extra sleep though! I didn't want to feel like I wasted the day away.
I ended up getting about 8hrs of sleep. That's a very good number, when you're referring to sleep. I woke up around 10am, before anybody else got up. I just wanted to take some time to chill. I ended up reading for an hour and a half, which was crazy, because I can't remember the last time I picked up a book that wasn't a text book or required reading material.
After everyone had gotten up, we started talking about how the day was going to go. We were supposed to take some girls from SF swimming, but their mom called and said they couldn't go because they weren't being obedient last night. Bummer.
Jonny called a couple guys from SF to see if they wanted to go swimming with him, since the girls were grounded, so to speak, and they were all for it. Just as Jonny had figured everything out there, the girls' mom called back and said they were now given permission to go swimming. Shoot. Now we're in a predicament, because we only have a few cars to use for the day and we have around 8 kids and five interns that we have to drive around for the day and the boys wanted to go to a different spot than the girls did. Craziness.
We got everything figured out by utilizing three different cars, and Stephen ended up staying behind, so that freed up some room. We ate lunch, then we headed out. On the way to SF, I had to drop off the keys to the Youth Center with Francis, so we ended up getting to SF around 1:30pm.
After we picked up the boys, we headed back north to Rosebud to find a lake that only Tony Jr. knew about. When we parked the car, I found out we were going to have to take a 2mi hike over the hills of Rosebud to find this supposed lake. Jonny forgot to inform me of this detail. I was wearing flip flops.
I was doubting the sanity of hiking in flip flops, but I went along with it. We hiked for probably 20min, before Tony Jr. decided that he couldn't remember how to get there by hiking. But that didn't stop us, because at that moment he also decided to inform us that there was a road we could have taken to get there instead. You mean to tell us we could have driven to the lake instead of braving a 2mi hike? Yup. Silly boy.
We all turned around and made it back to the car safely. Only a few ticks were found on the boys. I didn't find any on me, so I was thankful. We drove up the road to find that the road down to the lake was locked up. We couldn't drive down there but we were significantly closer to this lake than we were before, and the possibility of jumping the fence was up for pondering.
At first I said no, but then one of the boys told me that this was the rez, so there aren't any rules. It's crazy, but he's right. I parked the car and we hopped the gate. I wasn't sure about hopping over something that had been locked, but it wasn't illegal, and I quickly found out why they had that gate locked up. At the bottom of the road, there were some crazy ditches/potholes/ little ravines that must have been cut out by the rain over the past couple years. Good thing that gate was locked! My Alero would not have made it.
We enjoyed the lake for a about 30 to 45min, before we decided to go up to Ghost Hawk Park and meet the girls. We stopped to get some Powerade, then we were on our way! When we got there, everyone was playing around as happy as could be. I knew a lot of the little girls there, so they all called out my name and asked me to watch them jumping off the bank and what not. It was so much fun!
We ended up spending almost 2hrs at Ghost Hawk, before it was time to bring everybody back home. On the way back home, the boys and I decided that Ghost Hawk park was a lot more fun than Indian Scout Lake, the first lake we went to.
As we were talking on the way back to SF, Jonny and I started talking about where we were going to church tomorrow. I thought I had heard Jonny and Eric talking about church earlier in the day, so I asked Eric if he was going with Jonny, just to make conversation.
I guess they hadn't been talking, but Eric really wanted to go! That was incredible to see. All we did was ask, and God used Jonny's relationship with Eric to encourage him to accept our offer of church in the morning. I can't wait to see if he continues to go to church with Jonny for the rest of the summer!
When we got back to Mission, Jonny realized that he had left his backpack at Ghost Hawk Park. Back to Rosebud. We found his backpack moved, but untouched otherwise. He had some pretty important stuff in that back pack, so we both thanked God that nothing had been taken!
The rest of our night was devoted to Stephen, since it was his birthday on Thursday, but we had been too busy to actually go out and celebrate. We drove down to Valentine, NE and enjoyed a dinner together at The Bunkhouse. That place was legit. The food was delicious and it was cheap! Awesome.
After dinner, we walked around Valentine for a while. There's really only two main streets in Valentine and only one that was really worth walking down, so we made quick work of it, but it was fun to walk around and take some pictures with the team. We all decided that Valentine, NE was not a place we could live, but it's always fun to visit for a while.
We heard a lot of Rascal Flats when we were walking around, so on the way out we blasted Mumford and Sons. I'm sure that confused a lot of people. It was pretty funny to imagine what people were thinking of us. We got back to Mission around 9pm, then it was time for some fireworks!
For the past couple nights, Jonny and I have tried to practice our bottle rocket warring skills, but we really didn't seem to have gotten any better. Jonny got a couple shots off, and I got a couple shots off, but overall it was very spotty. We still enjoyed ourselves. Now we are all just hanging out, doing our thing. Maybe a movie tonight? Maybe just early bed. Who knows?
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed yourself as much as we did today!
God Bless,
Brenden
Things I learned today:
1. Jonny likes to keep secrets, especially when they have to do with hiking to miles to find a lake in the outskirts of Rosebud.
2. I couldn't ever live in Valentine, NE.
3. Acts 4.
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