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BC last weekend was most excellent. It was a retreat for a NGO I'm involved with, and involved camping in the middle of the mountains.
Now, you have to understand that I'm a prairie girl, born and raised. I've only been to the mountains twice before, and I find them absolutely mind blowing.
The first time I saw the mountains was six years ago. I was fifteen, and we were driving out of Calgary. "Oh my goodness, look at the mountains!" I said. My mother looked back at me with her eyebrows up, and said "Cherry, those are the foothills." Until that point, I'd tried my best to convince people that Saskatchewan wasn't flat.
Anyway: the retreat was fabulous, and it was great to see people from some of the other chapters again, even though![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ella_bee is volunteering overseas at the moment. I have a bit of a battle scar from body surfing some shallow rapids. (Eee! Really, I did it just because it was outside of my comfort zone, and I'd regret it if I didn't, and it was fabulously fun, even if I did make the decision to join on the spur of the moment, and thus do it fully clothed.) BC fruit stands are fabulous. It's possible I purchased three pounds of cherries and ate them all in three days.
I had my phone off while we were there, to conserve the battery in case we needed it on the drive back, and through a series of events that are both complex and uninteresting, didn't get it back until just before midnight this Thursday.
All in all, I spent five days without net and a week without any sort of phone.
It was strangely and incredibly liberating.
Now, you have to understand that I'm a prairie girl, born and raised. I've only been to the mountains twice before, and I find them absolutely mind blowing.
The first time I saw the mountains was six years ago. I was fifteen, and we were driving out of Calgary. "Oh my goodness, look at the mountains!" I said. My mother looked back at me with her eyebrows up, and said "Cherry, those are the foothills." Until that point, I'd tried my best to convince people that Saskatchewan wasn't flat.
Anyway: the retreat was fabulous, and it was great to see people from some of the other chapters again, even though
ella_bee is volunteering overseas at the moment. I have a bit of a battle scar from body surfing some shallow rapids. (Eee! Really, I did it just because it was outside of my comfort zone, and I'd regret it if I didn't, and it was fabulously fun, even if I did make the decision to join on the spur of the moment, and thus do it fully clothed.) BC fruit stands are fabulous. It's possible I purchased three pounds of cherries and ate them all in three days.I had my phone off while we were there, to conserve the battery in case we needed it on the drive back, and through a series of events that are both complex and uninteresting, didn't get it back until just before midnight this Thursday.
All in all, I spent five days without net and a week without any sort of phone.
It was strangely and incredibly liberating.