Last weekend!

Last weekend all the SI staff went to the beach as a way to end the summer. Needless to say...it was AMAZING! Chatty, Andrea, Alicia, and I (a.k.a. the fab 4) stayed in the same room (even though chatty and andrea had another room) and hung out the whole time together. We spent most of our time laying out, swimming, and drinking pina coladas :0) during the day and then at night we would eat early so that we could sit out on the beach and watch the sun set....which was the most amazing/incredible/stunning/breathtaking/beautiful moment from the whole weekend. just to sit there in awe of God's art work and talk about how incredible it was, and then to find ourselves moments later in silence because we were speechless. It warmed my heart (for lack of better words) to know that God did that just for me...just for each one of us. He had to have been sitting up in Heaven with a smile on His face to see us girls enjoy his creation! THANK YOU, GOD! may i never become so busy that i don't take time to sit in awe of You and your creation. may i never forget the moments that your beauty took my breath away! and may i always remember that those little moments when i stand in awe of you and your art work and remember that those are your love messages to me!
Okay...back to the weekend...so my most memorable night (and favorite night) was the last night....oh where do i start? lets start with Kevin and Joel working their 'magic' to get us into the italian restaurant that required reservations...so we sit there for awhile, eat some cake stuff, and then Kevin points at me and gets these two guys to come over and sing and play the guitar...crazy! joel was talking with some old guy so we left him there and went to lay in the hammocks which got old so us girls went out on the beach where we heard music coming from one of the buildings so we walked up there and here is this five man band so we stood and watched them. they all had braids down to their butts with top hats and looked indian. eventually the guys found us and hung out with us. after that ended we headed back to our rooms because there was nothing better to do. i had WAY to much energy and wanted to do something crazy, but no one else was feeling it...to make a long story short Kevin ended up picking me up and acted like he was going to throw me into the pool, but then Joel comes running up behind him and all three of us ended up in the pool. No one is to be in the pool after 7pm and it is 11:30/12:00pm! so we all decided that it would be fun to go swimming in the bubbling pools out closer to the ocean (so that we don't get caught), so we all went and changed and met back out by the pools, but the little pools were FREEZING cold so we tried to get down on the beach, but only to be stopped by the security guard...so joel and kevin begin to work their 'magic', and we probably could have gotten down on the beach to go swimming, but we didn't want to waste anymore time and so we headed over to sosua's beach and swam over there. I was SOOOOOOOO scared! swimming in a pool at night is one thing, but in the ocean at 1:30am is a total nother thing. i was freaked out. and then kevin and joel made up this big lie about lightening bugs in the ocean and i believed them and blah blah blah...so funny! but yeah! it was one heck of a night and a good end to the summer!