The First Session--Part 1

Pulling into the parking lot of Saddleback church we made our first U-turn of the trip, but to Abram's credit there's been a lot of change here, like an addition of a parking garage, so where we parked last year was different from this year. Stepping out of the van i watched as abram got out of the van. His newly shaven head glistened in the sunlight that was beating down on the hot asphalt, and we moved as a group towards registration, many of us sulking over the fact that we were having In&out Burger for the second time already. Despite all the stories and In&Out Burger from last year (Including Matt Springmann eating 3 double burgers in one day last year) many of the newbies to this Californian restuarant were not too impressed with the burgers and fries. Personally i wasn't too impressed last year and was not jumping for joy over the fact that we were eating at this restuarant, not once but twice since the conference was serving the same food. I don't care if the fries were deep fried in veggetable oil, they tasted like crap.

After the leaders went to the leaders meeting the rest of us played cards for awhile, but then decided to show off the rest of the amazing church to those of us who hadn't seen it before. After a short flip flop race down the fountain that ran down the middle of a set of stairs, we were off to explore the sanctuary with stadium seating and big screen TVs and the fitness path to a playgroup.

Finally we made it into the large air conditioned tent and sat worshiped and played a few games (one called 'sit down if' i was about to win until the M.C. said 'sit down if you have more then 3 siblings..' seeing as how matt was close by i decided not to disown him as a brother for the sake of the game, so MY target giftcard went to some blonde headed kid in one of the first five rows.)

Now onto the talk...


~Becky
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