Final Countdown

I thought about blogging last night, but after a Mocha Iced Cap and a can of coke, I was exhausted and all woozy. So it might not have been a good idea, because who would know what would come out of my brain. Then I decided to sleep on it first and do it this morning. =D

I've never really been a big fan of going out to watch fireworks, although I don't mind them at all; I think they're pretty cool. On July 1st, at night, fireworks were going on all over town. From my parent's room, you can see most of downtown Edmonton, and a huge part of eastern Edmonton. I think I saw about three or four different places that launched fireworks. All of a sudden, I started hearing the cracks of fireworks, and I thought that there was no way that I'd be able to hear them all the way here. Then I noticed that the noise was very few and far in between, so there was obviously not very much. My sister then looks over and sees that our neighbors a couple doors down were popping their own fireworks. Fireworks are expensive, so it was funny watching them and their low budgeted fireworks.

July has begun, and I usually see July as the "official" start of summer, so that means summer has started? Sure. The weather is so choppy; I don't remember it ever being like this. It can go from being a sweet sunny day to thunderstorm in a few seconds. Speaking of thunderstorms, I had to do that word for charades at summer camp; how the heck do you do that. Luckily my team had some prostar charade players and got it even though it looked like I was karate chopping thin air.

Speaking of summer camp, I think this camp that we just had was pretty sweet. I never think much of how awesome camp is/was while it's happening. It's always after camp, and coming home, when we have to kind of snap back to reality that it all sinks in and you look back and go "wow, that was so great!" I'm sure a lot of people are exhausted, especially those that have to go to work or summer school today - hah! But in all honesty, I think these are the types of experiences that everyone in church strives to go through. I mean, who can tell me, with a straight face, that they didn't like summer camp? We had such a huge group of people this year with a record breaking >200 members; I think that alone is already very special. The way that I see it, these things are small glimpses as to what heaven will be like. We had a couple talks about the end times and heaven and all that fun stuff. I wouldn't say that I learned something particularly new about this topic, but it's always cool to have a refresh and get your mind thinking about these things. I find it really cool to be able to relate summer camp experiences to heaven; and I hope that everyone can feel the same, because it's so awesome. 'nuff said.

Anyways, with the start of summer, it means the final countdown has begun for me. Within eight weeks, I will have moved on and will be born again, starting a new life; hopefully that works out for me.