Labor Day: "For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened" ;)

This past weekend was Labor Day weekend. It was great!

Up at Mountain Top, they have something called Labor Day Retreat, Weekend, Event etc. Basically you go up to camp over the weekend and get together with people for the holiday. You play some games, have a few meetings..it's cool.

Well, I have this friend--Tabitha. She decided that since we weren't obligated to sleep in the cabins, that we should totally sleep up on the ball field in a tent. My friends Morgan, Caroline, Eva and I totally agreed with the idea. Around 9:30 we went to set up the tent, when I say 'we' I mean Morgan, Caroline, Eva, and Tabitha...I'm a Yankee..I'd just get in the way ;) After that was done, we walked back down and basically did whatever until midnight when we came back to 'sleep'. We talked for about an hour and a half, called it quits, and tried to sleep. Now, Morgan and Caroline..desiring to break every rule they possibly could (during a rule free retreat?) decided they would be 'macho' and sleep outside of the tent. I had been asleep all of  30 or 40 minutes when I heard Caroline ask "Did you feel that?" and then I realized it had started to rain.  Morgan immediately decided that instead of being crowded in a 3-4 person tent with 5 people, that she and Caroline would just carry their sleeping bags and pillows and walk back down to the lodge..in the rain and the cold. Regardless of the fact that it's sorta still summer..it was sweatshirt weather and the rain didn't really help any. Eva, Tabitha, and I agreed that instead of having half of us leave and sleep in the lodge..we'd all just go together.

So, I don't know whether the girl has some special bond with the tent or what..but Tabitha decided that we weren't gonna leave it there in the rain. We all threw our sleeping stuff inside the tent, let up the pegs, lifted the tent up and carried it down the hill back to the lodge. You have to remember, it was literally around 2 in the morning and we had all been asleep. It must have been a funny thing to see..5 drowsy girls walking down a hill carrying a tent. Of course, by the time we got back to the lodge..it had stopped raining! No big deal.

The next morning at breakfast, Mr. Ray, the speaker, made reference to a verse, the first part of which nearly caused me to die of laughter. 2 Corinthians 5:4- "For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened.." Coincidence..I think not. Adding to everything else, the tent story definitely made Labor Day weekend that much more fun.

Chances are, you won't find this half as funny as it actually was.. it was a "had to be there" type of thing, but when you carry a tent down a mountain with 4 other people, in your pajamas, in the rain, it just needs to be said, haha!