Mountain Retreat

Our church had another Mountain Retreat this weekend. They call it a "retreat", but it's really not. It's a good time to get together with our friends and fellowship with each other, play games, eat, and have a bon fire, but it isn't a place to relax and recharge. Church retreats have become known for being sleepless and exhausting, yet fun. We all had a great time. It was a beautiful area in the mountains with a fresh mountain spring. There was a nice river there and we were surrounded by lush green mountains. It definitely was nice there. It was nice to chill and hang out with friends. A few of us brought our dogs. Devin, Rachel, and Christine and I all had a dog. So there are now three puppies hanging around. They loved it. They got lots of attention from the kids.


The frogs also got a lot of attention. There were frogs everywhere there was water. It was apparently frog mating season or something because nearly all the frogs were attached in couples. They were cool looking frogs with green on top and bright orange and black on the bottom side.

One interesting that happened there was when the retreat center owner came out with some mosquito killing machine. It was a machine that pumped out some kind of bug killer that was apparently safe for humans to breathe. He clouded out the entire area with billows of this stuff. It was crazy. I can't imagine it being healthy in any way, but it did kill off the mosquitos in the area.


We played a bit of Chinese hacky-sack too. Devin picked one up in China when we were there and brought it to the retreat. Our record was a whopping 33 hits, and I think our second best was 17. It's kinda like hacky-sack in that you kick it, but it's got feathers and a plastic bottom (not anything like a sac). It's fun though. It's a totally different feel.




We had a nice french toast, scrambled eggs, and bacon breakfast in the morning and headed back to Ulsan. We were exhausted and went home to take a nap straight away after church. We woke up about 4 hours after we fell asleep.
When we go on retreats we don't expect to get any sleep but we do expect a good time, and that it was.

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