What have I been up to lately? Well, blink your eyes and it's time for another YSA conference! Wasn't I just at one? Geez, a month goes by fast!
This one was called Gathering in the Grove and held in Palmyra over Memorial Day weekend. The Kirtland conference is always the same weekend and I've always gone to that one, but this year the group decided to break tradition and check out GIG. GIG was a bit cheaper and the featured guest was Alex Boye, who sings in Motab which won over Janice Kapp Perry. I really missed my fabulous catered meal that is Kirtland's tradition, but had a good time.
There were some concerns about the weekend, namely:
1) Tent camping.
2) Smushing seven people and all our crap into a Yukon
3) Tent camping!!!
You see, I've never had a great experience with tent camping in Palmyra, and I've tried it three other times!
But it was cheaper than getting a hotel room, so I succumbed.
I kinda have mixed feelings about this conference. I enjoyed being able to go to the temple and do a session (it doesn't happen that often with the temple being so far away) and Alex Boye was spiritual and funny to listen to (I'd recommend him if you have the opportunity) but the rest? Meh. No one terribly interesting to talk to. Got stuck watching my group in choir practice during free time. Got ate up by bugs and got no sleep. It was miserably hot and humid. And I didn't like all the raucous laughter/applause that happened in the chapel when we saw Alex Boye. It really should have been held in the gym. And I'm not really sure that having to be dressed up (temple,church) as well as trying to impress the opposite sex while camping in heat/humidity really meshes.
This one was called Gathering in the Grove and held in Palmyra over Memorial Day weekend. The Kirtland conference is always the same weekend and I've always gone to that one, but this year the group decided to break tradition and check out GIG. GIG was a bit cheaper and the featured guest was Alex Boye, who sings in Motab which won over Janice Kapp Perry. I really missed my fabulous catered meal that is Kirtland's tradition, but had a good time.
There were some concerns about the weekend, namely:
1) Tent camping.
2) Smushing seven people and all our crap into a Yukon
3) Tent camping!!!
You see, I've never had a great experience with tent camping in Palmyra, and I've tried it three other times!
But it was cheaper than getting a hotel room, so I succumbed.
I kinda have mixed feelings about this conference. I enjoyed being able to go to the temple and do a session (it doesn't happen that often with the temple being so far away) and Alex Boye was spiritual and funny to listen to (I'd recommend him if you have the opportunity) but the rest? Meh. No one terribly interesting to talk to. Got stuck watching my group in choir practice during free time. Got ate up by bugs and got no sleep. It was miserably hot and humid. And I didn't like all the raucous laughter/applause that happened in the chapel when we saw Alex Boye. It really should have been held in the gym. And I'm not really sure that having to be dressed up (temple,church) as well as trying to impress the opposite sex while camping in heat/humidity really meshes.
But I survived, and it was probably better than whatever I would have been doing at home.
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| A tangle of girls in the backseat! |
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| Raelena's comedy act during the No Talent Talent Show. We all helped her come up with groaner jokes. |
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| Our leaning tower of tent. It gave way just as we were packing the car! |
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| Nice hood ornament, Raelena |
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| I don't know how we fit everything in! |
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| Our Gang |
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| My girlies |
Moving on...
The plan for Memorial Day was for a bunch of us to meet up, go hang out at Presque Isle and have a photo shoot. It was actually my idea, but stuff happened and people couldn't find each other and the stuff that I had wanted to do (photoshoot and sandcastles) didn't happen. And we were all irritated with each other that night too. It was also real hot and humid, well into the 90's, we were miserable. Real fun, huh? Ugh.
I did get a few pics with my sis and our friend Hannah, that was it.
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| Hannah! |
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| The gang at Perry's Monument |
What else? Well, I glued scrapbook paper to about 80 big washers for camp necklaces....
....and I survived a major hailstorm- the stones were so big that they shattered on my windshield and left dents on the hood! I had no way to get out of the storm!
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| There's about 20 big dings, you can see some in this pic. |
Life goes on. Hope you're doing well.
Stay tuned for more fun!
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