My Amazing Weekend!

This past Friday, I met up with my collegiate church group known as CSF (Christian Student Fellowship) at 2pm. I was very excited, we were going away for the weekend to Vermont for an event called Fusion where other collegiate church groups were meeting for the weekend.

I arrive and two of my friends/group members approach me and ask if I can drive a car with a clutch and if I was comfortable doing so. I replied yes and was handed a set of car keys. Apparently, we had an extra car but no one was able to drive it because it was a clutch.

The drive up to Vermont was so beautiful with all the fall leaves on the trees, God's handiwork is so amazing. It was not too terribly long of a drive, about 4 1/2 hours or so.

The conference was happening in Burlington,Vermont which is practically on the border of Vermont and New York. We had 4 church sessions which were pretty amazing. We stayed in the Fairfield Inn which was a nice hotel that suprised us all when they provided us with an extra room for free (you just can't expect 4 guys to be willing to share a room with 2 beds).

There were the pastor, his wife, and their 2 kids, then their were 4 guys and 6 girls. Out of the whole group, there were only 2 freshman and me and the other freshman got along really well and I see a bright future friendship with her.

Some activities that we did:
First Night:
Bonfire after church with smores. The bonfire was so hot that we practically burned our eyebrows off trying to roast the marshmellows.

Saturday Afternoon:
Exploring downtown Burlington which happened to be called Church Street. Church Street is a mixture of 4 city blocks filled with shops and then also a 2 floor indoor mall with anchor store such as Macy's.

The drive home was amusing for me because I started to understand east coast driving and all its craziness. For instance, I was going about 20-25mph over the speed limit and I blew past several cops, at least one of them that I know of were clocking, I was shocked when the cops did not pull me over. I was following some other group from church and I was keeping up with traffic and yes I was being blown off the roads at times as well for when I dropped my speed way down.

Then to top off the weekend, 4 of us got together and had Sunday dinner together. Such a great ending!

This weekend was absolutely amazing and I thought that it was a really great way to start the week out!