Young Women Camping Retreat

Back in June we took the Young Women on an overnight camp out to Fort Stevens State Park. Tent camping at the coast anytime during the year is risky, but it worked out great for us. No rain, not even drizzle, until literally the minute before we had planned to pack up and leave. Our Ward has such a great group of Young Women and I feel so lucky to be in among them.

Our journey began late Friday afternoon when we all met up and started our way for the beach. Once we got there we set up camp and then drove to Seaside for dinner. We ate at Bar Harbor Pizza and then found a candy shop on the promenade before we left. When we got back we had our Standards Night presentation and some great questions were asked by the girls.

Bedtime was perhaps the most exciting. We had a practical joke played on us by a handful of young men from the Seaside Ward. After a humorous, yet scary display of seeing someone "perched" outside of our tent, our tent collapsed on us at 1:30 a.m. and the guys ran off. No one could sleep after that.

In the morning after breakfast we broke up into groups. The walkers and the cyclists. The walkers went to the beach to play for the day, while the cyclists rode to a bunch of the tourist sites around. After a few hours we all met back up for lunch and then headed home. It was a really fun time with such great company. I got a kick out of the car ride home though because the girls crashed and were drooling and sprawling out all over each other. Good times.