Heritage Retreat

My weekend cooking for Heritage Bible College's fall retreat, seemed to just fly by! I had a great time getting to know all the first-year students as well as seeing some old friends from when I was at Heritage a couple years ago. That's one thing that I really love about working in the kitchen... I have the chance to meet so many people. All the students took turns helping out in the kitchen, either with prep. work or with clean-up, so I had the chance to literally meet everyone!

It was actually even a nice retreat weekend for me, even though I was working. I absolutely loved being back at work in the kitchen, and it even sort-of felt like it was camp season again... except the kitchen crew were much taller this weekend! haha!
One of my favourite parts of the weekend was by far when we all had communion on the beach, Sunday morning. It was a really calm morning and just being there on the beach, surrounded by creation, and taking communion with my brothers and sisters in Christ... it was very spiritually enriching! I was really reminded of how grateful I am for the body of Christ, and that even though I didn't meet a lot of those people until that weekend, they are still my family and it was nice to feel so connected to them right away.

After everyone left on Sunday around noon, I decided to go down to the boat house and have a nap. I brought a mattress out onto the porch and fell asleep with the cool breeze on my face and the sound of the waves in my ears. Only things was... I half woke up at one point and I remember hitting my head and thinking there was a fly that kept trying to land on me. Then I just went back to sleep. When I woke up a few hours later, there were four dead flies on my mattress, right around my head. I don't know how they got there. My only guess is that I must've been killing them in my sleep... apparently working in the camp kitchen gave me good fly- swatting skills! lol