International Graduate Student Ministry – Gracepoint Berkeley

It’s hard to say good-bye to 2009 without recounting the memorable, action-packed and snow-filled Sierra Lodge trip that took place in November 2009. It’s hard to describe the event in words, but hopefully you can get a picture of the trip by looking at the photos above and the video clips below.

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And so, that’s exactly what we did at our Sierra Lodge Snow Trip during Spring Break!  Instead of our normal Friday Bible study, we had a smaller, cozier group of people who came…  and we resolved to have fun.  Now you might be wondering how we did that.

First, we arrived Friday night after dinner at In-n-Out burger to play a game of King Kong Shower.  And after that, we snacked on some tasty quesadillas made by Karen and Meowmeow.  And then, at midnight, we started our Nerf Gun war…  where we shot foam darts at each other to our heart’s content.  We also played Capture the Flag–Nerf Gun style!  It was fun.  See the picture if you don’t believe me!  And right when you think its time to sleep at 2AM, we watched a Live Free and Die Hard.

After sleeping at 4:30AM, we woke up to a hot breakfast of breakfast burritos and eggs and sausage.  After some DT time, we headed out to the snow, where we made snow men…  and had a snow battle.  (It snowed beautifully for 2 hours, what else are we supposed to do with nice snow other than throw it at each other?)  Yes, I buried Jesse in the snow 4 times.  Yes, Chul buried Travis 3 times.  The older guys had a field day with these younger brothers who are supposed to be stronger and faster.  

And after that..  after you thought we were tired, we sledded for another 2 hours.  Some brave souls, like Amy, actually took the boogie board face first instead of the softer inner tube ride down our new sled run.  And somehow, we made it back to the Lodge for Marinara meatball sandwiches for a really really late lunch…  and then we headed down.

So if you’re kicking yourself for not coming, we hope you can join us next year.