Mountain Boarding

Today I woke up and went for a run/hike with Alex--after writing a few articles for textbroker.com. It was a pretty good way to start the day. Our "Weekends" are from Friday-Monday, so I didn't have classes today, but I did have a lot of homework. After lunch I took a break and did some slacklining, and then went and read Descartes on top of the caboose (seriously, there is a caboose here. You can climb on top of it and hang out, or go inside it. I actually haven't been inside it yet...).

After I finished Descartes, I was going to go for a bike ride with Alex, but people were using all the bikes, so we decided to go mountain boarding instead--SO glad we did! I had never gone mountain boarding before, but it's a lot like snowboarding. Basically, you stand on a glorified skateboard with footholds and a hand brake wearing lots of pads and ride down hills.

Zooming down the hill on meh mountainboard! (I'm holding the brake in my right hand)

Just a blur

So hardcore.

Alex 'n' I posing with our boards =)

Tonight for supper, because the guys do ManDate Mondays where they all sit together and ignore the girls, this week we decided to do Mom Mondays, where we all dressed up like moms. It was a LOT of fun lol. There were all sorts of different mothers--soccer moms, a workout mom, lots of expecting moms, a lawyer mom, a bohemian mom, and, my personal favorite, a white trash trailer park mom. She acted her role the whole night--so funny.

After supper we had small groups. In my small group we're focusing on Seeking First God's Kingdom (Matthew 6:25-35). We talked about not worrying and looking at life from God's perspective. For example, when I'm stressing about being tired or something, I should zoom out, as it were, from my life and look at it from God's perspective: I'm here for such an incredibly short time and in the large scheme of things, does my discomfort really matter that much? God isn't calling me to be comfortable, he's calling me to be uncomfortable, no matter how much I don't want to be.