Busy Day

There are many mountains to climb here in Colorado, and I have heard stories of a glacier that you can slide down in a garbage bag. Being a fan of sledding myself, I had been wanting to attempt the hike to get to this glacier. However, I am pretty busy out here, and by the time my day off rolls around, I just want to sit and relax. Yesterday I had an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone by hiking to the glacier and creating a very busy day for myself to make all my normal days seem less busy.

I got up at 5:30 in the morning with four other people and drove to the trailhead that leads to Flattop mountain. Many people hike three peaks along this trail called FHO (Flattop, Hallets, Otis) before sliding down the glacier, so we decided to do all three as well. It took us 9 hours total, including two lunch breaks, and many rest breaks. The picture is me sliding down the glacier. Another reason I wanted to climb these mountains is to see what was on the other side of the mountain range that I haven't been able to see past yet. It was very cool, and the view was well worth the hike. I find it strange what people will do to thier bodies to please thier eyes. Yet, if they say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, then maybe it is more to please thier souls. After having climbed three mountains and slid down a glacier, no one was extremely excited to hike the four miles back to the car.

There are advantages to working the night shift once or twice a week, one of which is that I don't have to be to work until 4:30pm, which gives me time to hike 9 hours before I go to work. We got back at around 4, and I was extremely grateful for the time to shower before work. The problem with having the night shift on a Thursday is that I help out with lights for our Thursday night service. I told my boss this, but he was on vacation this week, so someone else made the schedule. I worked a deal where I could take a break to set up the lights and attend the service. I left work at 7 to help with lights, and after church at 10:30 I went back to work until 1. I slept better than I have since I have been here, and when I got up I was so hungry you don't even know. Overall, it was a good day, and it makes for a pretty good blog post I guess.

I am still having a good time out here. I am learning a lot and growing in many ways. My relationship with God is still growing, and I am realizing the importance of learning how to keep it up when I get back to the busyness of school. I was also finally forced to join freakin' facebook because people can't find any better place to post thier pictures. However, I'm not going use it as little as possible, so don't confuse being my facebook friend with being my real friend. I hope you are all doing well!