camping in the woods

yellowstone is incredible. the drive to the park was beautiful. most of our surroundings, the mountains, lakes, forest, etc. just seems to stretch out as far as you can see and is virtually untouched by man. i don't have words to describe it, but we'll get some pictures up soon...promise :)

once we arrived at yellowstone we still had quite a lengthy drive into the park to get to our campsite. on the way we stopped for a potty break at the Old Faithful lodge, which was unlike anything i have ever seen before. hopefully we will get to go back and explore it a bit more.

then we split up into our different teams...some of us went food shopping and the rest set up the campsite. all of our teams did great getting everything set up and ready to go. it is cool to see everyone working together so well.

the campsite itself is awesome. it is right on the shore of a lake. when you look out over the lake all you can see is forest across the lake and then huge mountains behind the forest. what's incredible is that no matter how far to the left or the right you look standing on the shore, you still see the mountains! it's waaaaaaay cool.

what is also waaaaaay cool is the lake water. how convenient that the lake our campsite is set up at is a swimming area. we had a bit of downtime after setting up camp, during which a bunch of the guys went swimming in the...cold...water. there is a semi-dock a bit of a ways out that you can swim to and jump off of so we had fun watching the guys wrestle each other off it into the water.

and then...

kaulana taught on listening/hearing from the Lord and how to hear God's voice. how amazing is it that the God of the universe who created all of the incredible things we are getting to see loves to personally speak to each one of us?

now we just finished dinner & are getting ready to have worship & sharing time. aaaaaaaand...kaulana is ready to post pictures. so without further ado...

-alexandra

oh i almost forgot!!! so far we have seen...buffalo, coyote, ospreys, many chipmunks (they are many of the girls' favorites so far), deer, bats...i wonder if they think we look as cool as they do.