It was a fun drive there, since it was windy roads through wilderness and many up and downhills. With Rammstein playing, it only made it that much better.

We got there and were planning on staying in the same cabin, but things didn't go as planned. First, like all but the first times as when we came, they have the rule where only guys can sleep in guys' cabins. They even label them as "Boys Only" and "Girls Only". Most of the people who sleep in them are thirteen and younger. The younger girls took over one cabin, and Andrea, Ashly, and Heather were staying in the other girls one. There was only one stating it was a boys-only one since the other one that would have been boys was torn down due to the insecurity of it being built on a slope. Between the boys and girls cabins are 2 that only have one story and are unlabeled. Usually, if anyone married wants to sleep down by the kids, they sleep there. I didn't want to sleep with the boys and Amy didn't want to sleep in either of the girls cabins, so we decided to share one of the unlabeled ones. We would be hanging out together more than the previous years since the people my age (Nick, Robert, Jimmy, Brian, and Shannon) weren't coming. Since Andrea and Ashley are officially part of the church, they hang out with the adults more because they share the spirit. It's not that they have to, they want to. Andrea was the supervisor for the cabins and she told Amy and me that we couldn't share even if we are related because they can't make exceptions and we have to set an example for the younger kids. My parents agreed with this decision. Well, we didn't like that. Amy went to the other unlabeled one, so we both had one to ourselves. She made a sign that said "Amys Only" and put it on hers, and I did one for my name but didn't get around to finishing it. We're not even allowed to go into a cabin of another gender any time of day.

With a big lack of people my age to hang out with, I spent most of my time sitting in the lodge with Ashley's radio and listening to my music while I wrote on my story. When I wasn't doing that, I was playing my card game with people. I made it up and it's really fun, but no one wants to learn it. I played with Amy one night, Andrea the next morning, and then with Lukas later that day. He's 12, but has started wanting to hang around me a lot. He kept moving his hands like Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean. He's Bro. Ray's son. His older sister, Kacia, is really into Lord of the Rings. Amy spent most of the time in her cabin reading the 5th Harry Potter book, though she hung with the younger girls, too. Bryanne (Bro. Steve's daughter) had her radio in the young girls cabin and they always listened/danced to the Lizzie McGuire soundtrack (Amy didn't dance, of course).

Bro. Todd brought a friend named Linda and she really enjoyed the company of the brethren. She even got baptized on Sunday. It's really neat when that happens. Aunt Vicki's boyfriend liked how everyone treated him like family and said that not even his own family treats him that way, but he's running, I think. He went back to California and told my aunt that he bets we thought he was going to get baptized but we were wrong. Aunt Vicki told him that we didn't expect him to, we just enjoyed his company. No one pressures you into coming in. You just do if you want to. He's afraid of it. Oh well, like my aunt says, the truth is scary.

I missed all those days of comics!