This Post Is About Arriving At RMMC

So here I sit, three days in, the clouds are dark, the waist is thin.

Not true.  It was pretty sunny today, which was nice, and I have probably gained a few pounds from Mary and Jill's wondrous cooking.  So I doing good am.

Alright, so I arrived here Sunday night after a three day drive.  I left Virginia on Friday morning and drove about 13.5ish hour drive to Illinois, a 9ish hour drive to Hesston, and an 8ish hour drive to camp.  All pretty uneventful.

So I pulled up, coming back for the first time in two years, and memories flooded the airways (or the brainwaves, I guess, since you don't really breath memories, therefore there is no reason for them to be in the airways).  The view is as stinking incredible as stinking always, your airways are the opposite of being flooded (this means that the air up here is thin, so there isn't as much air in the airways as normal (this means that you get tired walking up a few stairs (this means that you are high in elevation, approximately 9,620 feet))).  I am getting used to the air, slowly but surely, and I am also getting used to the dryness.  It is incredibly not humid here (11% humidity currently), compared to where I am used to, so I am drinking a lot of water, peeing a lot, and using a lot of chapstick.  It still gets down around freezing at nights here, so it can be pretty cold in the mornings and evenings.  There is still about 3 feet of ice on the creek at some spots:

Also a few snow banks in some spots, and Pike's Peak still has a fairly decent quantity of snow upon it (there was a couple here on Sunday night that said they hiked through knee-deep snow up above treeline that day):

So I am here making some plans with Na and Lle for next week and for some kids camps as well (Na and I are the summer program directors and Lle is full-time director, so planning is important).  I am starting to get very excited for when the camps start full-swing and the rest of the staff gets here.  There are seven of the summer staff here now, those of us doing first aid training and rock climbing training and planning stuff, but the rest will come this weekend.  Pumped!

In other news, we saw a stinking bear last night!  A black bear, just hanging out by the lodge.  Then running up the hill.  Cool stuff, man (or lady, I guess I shouldn't be gender-specific, so "Cool stuff, person).  Cool stuff.  But don't worry, they are afraid of humans and it was just a littler guy, we are completely safe. :)

That's it for the day.  Be awesome, be cool, be smart, be a tool.  A tool for the Lord, that is, not a tool as in a stupid person.  Hah, joke.
...
God is good and I am super excited to be doing some ministry for Him this summer again.
Love you all!