Boating and Camping

Last week ended up being pretty busy and eventful for me! Here's what I did:

Wednesday I went boating with a big group of friends at Willard Bay

Thursday morning I went camping with the Young Single Adults from my home stake up in a tiny town north of Preston, Idaho.

Someone knew this guy who owns a ton of land and he let us come up and camp on his property for a few days. He had horses so we got to do a lot of horseback riding!! I LOVED it so so much! I felt like I was on a farm. We got to round them up, and saddle and bridle them. We also learned/observed one of the horses get horse-shoed. That was pretty cool! And... I finally galloped on a horse for the first time! I've always been a little nervous but I did it and it was awesome!

Friday we drove out to this private lake and played on the beach/boated. We had a tiny boat so only a few people could go out at a time. We did a lot of tubing which was way fun, and I also got to do some wake-boarding again! It was fun with this little boat because it had a lot of power.

Friday night brought lots of excitement. We got hit by a big storm! It was extremely windy, and rainy. There we were in this wide open field surrounded by lightening while clinging to metal poles trying to hold down our two big canopies! It was so windy that my tent blew away.... ha ha yes it BLEW away!

I had been up riding horses when the storm hit and someone pointed out to me that my tent was gone... ha ha. I thought he was just teasing me but when I realized it really was gone I ran down to camp. It blew at least 300 yards away and ripped a huge hole in the top (keep in mind this was one our wards 6-man big spring bar tents)! Miraculously every single item of ours stayed inside the tent. Which really is a miracle because all of our bags were wide open and things were strewn everywhere! They just had to shove it all together and throw it in the truck before it started pouring.

I thought it was pretty hilarious that our tent blew away ha ha. That night we slept in the back of our leaders car, which was super uncomfortable. The good news was, was that we didn't have to take down our tent in the morning, or even clean it out for the next people to use it ha! That's all we heard about at church that Sunday. The young men teased us a lot because we "ruined" their tent that they were going to be using that next Monday. Ha ha oops! It was some pretty intense wind I'll tell ya what. Wasn't our fault! :) It sure was a pretty big adventure.