Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Restful, Relaxing Vacation

Each year for the past 17 we have met two other couples and their children at Greenwood Furnace State Park in PA, near Belleville.  We pastored in this area right out of Seminary in 1990 to 1996.  It is always a fun week and filled with time to rest, relax and refuel.

This year, I read two and a half books as well as spent countless hours just enjoying my family and our friends.  The couples play sequence each night into the wee morning hours.  Women against men.  And this year the Men won the over all year and each night we played!

We have enjoyed having two friends of our daughters go along each year for the past many years!  This year was no exception!

 
I always take my camera and the guys usually run out into the nearby Amish community of Belleville, PA and I take Amish photos.  Usually I frame one from each year and hang in our living room.  Like to think of myself as a Amish paparazzi....I try very hard to be discrete and not to capture their faces.   Here are some of the shots from this week.
 




 
We always conclude our time there on Sunday going to worship at the very first church we pastored out of Seminary, the Spring Run Church of the Brethren.  It is always fun to see the people and especially to see the kids who have grown up and now have children of their own.   It is always sad to see/ hear of those who have passed on.  We do very much look forward to spending time in worship there each year!
 
Camping is a lot of work especially when you do it so far away and with tents and 6 people, but we always enjoy our time there.  Already looking forward to next year's trip!  And grateful that we went last week, when it was cool and not this week when it is HOT!


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