Gone Retreatin'

Yesterday I got back from the ICTSC Leaders' Retreat (and this time, I was actually invited as a leader, and not just someone who was willing to carry things). It's weird (to me) to think of myself as a leader in Salt. All I do is help setup/teardown and run lyrics or lights--I don't run a connection group or anything like that. But it was a good time: getting to know people that I hadn't met before and getting to know people I already knew better, realizing after walking back out of a lake that my iPod and phone were still in my pockets (both are fine, and my iPod had to have been underwater at some point), working with my team on strange challenges (and still getting 3rd out of 3 teams, sadly) including pushing a car and throwing a frisbee at a stick, eating 13 slices of pizza for dinner on Monday (if you're ever in Corydon, Iowa, hit up Breadeaux Pizza), riding home in a car that kept bottoming out (somewhere around 15 times), and stopping at Pizza Ranch on the way and noticing their vision and mission statement for the first time.

And now for upcoming events, it's now 4 days until we expand into all three major sections of the room we have Veritas instead of the normal two. It's 5 days until I start attending the University of Iowa, and 6 days until the first Salt (and the release of This Hope). That's an exciting 3 days right there.