Vacation Highlights

Last weekend my family took our first “vacation” since I was… oh probably eight years old. That might be an exaggeration, but actually it’s not. It was just a mini vacation; we went to Lake Barkley Resort about two hours west from my house. It was really nice and relaxing; there was no cell phone service, I didn’t do my homework, and our room at the lodge overlooked the lake. I don’t think I really got any rest while I was there because we did so much, and slept so little, and then yesterday I thought I was going to fall asleep during my history class and that was AFTER I drank coffee. Nonetheless, it was an amazing change of scenery and was really great for my family to spend some quality time together that we weren’t running around and doing all of the stuff that we normally do. We ate good food, did a lot of shopping, but didn’t really buy a lot of stuff, and did some major sight-seeing. We went to Miss Patti’s, a really cute little place in Cadiz, and visited the Homeplace, over at Land Between the Lakes. Here are just a few highlights of the trip (pictures to follow!)

• The first day and a half was just my mom, dad, Rebekah, and myself. That was cool just because it never happens, but I missed Tina and Jess like crazy because they are such fun girls and I was glad when they joined us. 
• The lodge where we stayed was really nice, and it had an indoor pool and jacuzzi and sauna and all that good stuff. Ahhhhh....
• The scenery was beautiful, and made for great pictures.
• Rebekah, Tina, and I all slept in one bed. That was not a highlight. The highlight was that we got so tickled at ourselves and I laughed so hard I thought I was going to throw-up. Laughter is the best medicine.
• We ate such good food. No joke. 
• At Miss Patti's there were all these cute little, super-expensive, shops. But one of them was having a "yard sale" where everything was 75% off. So I was stoked. I love a good deal.
• There was a little arcade-kind-of place in the lodge and my sisters and I played four-player ping pong which requires a lot of running and falling and stuff... mainly because we were all really bad at ping pong. Except Christina. And Me. Still though, it was fun(ny).
• Getting to spend time with my dad when he wasn't concerned about work was really cool. He's pretty much hilarious. 
• Bluegrass, bluegrass, bluegrass.
• We made friends with the guy who worked at the pool and he heard us singing in the locker room one day and asked us to come back and sing for him again. So we packed up our instruments and went and sang him a song. 

You know, just a note on that last highlight, life is ministry. We don't get a break. I always get frustrated by people who think that their just going to "take a vacation from everything," but when the Lord calls you to a ministry, you don't get to do that. Every single day of our lives we choose whether or not to let our light shine. We could have decided that we weren't going to put out the extra effort to sing for that guy, but I know that since we did, his life might be changed. If nothing else, he will remember what we did for him and how he felt. I hope that he knows that what he felt was God.