This week God has just been revealing himself to me and connecting me to people in ways I never imagined. I felt so blessed just to have this internship out here, but he continuously blesses me more than I deserve with more than that.
Monday
I felt like I hit a rut in my internship coming in on Monday. I'm sure this is what happens at any normal job - it was just a mundane day and I was really aching for being a camp counselor outside playing with kids. I was also super tired from the weekend (sometimes I feel like I need a weekend from my weekend ha) so I was definitely dragging.
Monday afternoon, things turned around. We (the marketing team) went to take pictures of kids playing minigolf and we played a round ourselves. I ate dinner with a bunch of friends, then headed down to the courts for the first night of our volleyball tournament. My team (the Sand Monsters) consists of me, Erica, 3 guys (Matt, Austin, Ryan) and then a girl named Whitney joined our team since one of our other guys had to drop out. It was a blast. Seriously, competitive sand volleyball with great players and even better friends can't be beat. (And we won our first game!)
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| The Sand Monsters: Austin, Matt, Ryan, Whitney, Me, Erica |
Afterward we just played pick up games with other people and then went to the Admin building to hang out. I had the best conversation with one of the guys on my volleyball team. Do you ever have those moments where you just feel the holy spirit moving? Man it's the best.
Tuesday
Tuesday was good. I worked on several different blogs and my IRT Navy story. We had a skype meeting with Snow Mountain Ranch marketing to discuss the ad on the Lightrails in Denver for the new tubing hill (totally tubular! winter fun in the summer sun! lots of phrase brainstorming.)
Tuesday night we ate dinner with our usual group and my new friend Whitney, then went down to the Mountain Shop in town. The Mountain Shop is super cool - it's got a bunch of outdoor and athletic gear (I got my Northface raincoat there my first weekend for a great deal) They also have a super cool Rock climbing gym and I signed up for a one month membership. I'm kind of wondering what I got myself into because I'm super sore after one night and I didn't even climb that much. I think it'll be fun though and a great way to work on new skills.
After we finished climbing, I went to LT worship with a few friends (Whitney invited us) LT is a leadership training group that comes to the YMCA of the Rockies every summer. They work doing all kinds of jobs around the camp, but mainly came to be involved in project (small) groups, workshops, and worship services throughout the week. The service was great - there were several songs I didn't know, but I loved them.
Wednesday
Wednesday was much better. I finished my IRT story, wrote several other posts for Snow Mountain Ranch, ate lunch with some good friends, and then went out to B Dubs in Longmont with some of the counselors to celebrate Erica's birthday. I haven't had Buffalo Wild Wings in forever and can honestly say it was the best decision I made all day.
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| Erica is obsessed with mountain lions so I photoshopped her head to make it look like she's holding one and put it on her birthday card. She loved it. |
Thursday
Thursday was looooooong. Both Andrew and Laura were out at Snow Mountain Ranch so it was quiet in the office. After work I ate dinner with friends and then we went to the movies since it was half price movie night for Y staff. I finally saw The Fault in Our Stars - now I haven't read it yet, but I decided since I always read the books before the movies that it might be fun to switch it up this time. And the movie was SO good. Like the last half of the movie just had me bawling because it was so good/funny/sad/bittersweet/emotionally exhausting. Go see it if you haven't already. We postponed camping again haha since we're going to Denver this weekend.
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| cry cry cry |
Friday
More blogging. More writing. More emails. And then: DENVER.
I was super excited to go to Denver with 11 other friends. After spending a few hours in the city with my college roommate on my way to Estes Park, I couldn't wait to get back and explore more. We left around 5:30PM and arrived around 7:15PM. We ate at Olive Garden (ohmygoooodness so good. There's only so much camp food you can take), checked into our hotel, then explored the city a little bit.
Saturday
The next day we went to the 16th Street Mall where the hundreds of stores and restaurants and Starbucks engulfed us. Afterward we went to a Rockies game! It was super hot, and the Rockies lost to the Brewers (9-4) but we had a blast. My friends from Columbia had never seen a baseball game so I had fun explaining how it worked to them.
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| Mollie, Jeniffer, Vanessa, Me, Cora, Erica, and Jenna at the Rockies game! |
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| Me and Jeniffer, one of my Columbian friends |
Sunday
Naturally most of us were sad to leave the city on Sunday, but we were also super tired and ready to head back to Estes. We walked 16th street a little longer and shopped some more, then packed up the cars and headed back.
This week probably wasn't the most adventurous or exciting, but my relationships with people here have just strengthened so much. I remember the first few days I was here I just kept praying for God to reveal himself and I kept wondering how he was going to do it. I wasn't sure what to expect being here away from the Harding bubble. It's been such an eye opening experience already.
God is good all the time. He knew exactly what he was doing when he allowed this internship to happen and I've been so blessed because of it.
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