Trip to Kalahari

On Friday, April 16, 2011, I went on a weekend trip to Kalahari with my youth group from Calvary Baptist Church. I had been looking forward to this trip since January. In getting ready for the trip I packed my CD player, as well as my toiletries, swimsuit and spending money.

I got picked up at my house at 4:30pm and went to the church. Where we loaded up three vans that would transport us to the water park.  The drive took about 45 minutes, during the trip I just listened to my CD player and before I knew it we were there.  When we arrived at Kalahari my roommates and I checked into our hotel, got unpacked and swam from 6pm until it closed at 10pm. In between that time we took an hour off to have dinner.  The restaurant was called Zulu Grille.  My friend Josh and I had pizza and coke.  Just before the park was to close two guys entered the hot tub where Josh and I were relaxing. They somehow got into an argument when the one guy called the other guy immature in front of his girlfriend. The one guy became extremely angry and started punching the other guy in the face and smashing his head against the railing. The fighting became very intense and as they got closer my friend Josh and I quickly jumped out to safety. It took ten police to stop the fight and another ten officers to restrain him and check for weapons. Exhausted and shaken I ran back to my hotel room.

The next day was Saturday and we got up early; around 8am, we met back as a group in the hotel and had doughnuts, muffins and juice, afterwards we broke up into groups; one for the girls and one for the boys. We discussed the passage from the bible and what they meant. Later we went down to the water park and took a group photo in front of the roller coaster and tree house.  Later my friend Josh and I went on this awesome ride called the Toilet Bowl. It’s called that because it spins and flushes you down like a real toilet. We continued swimming until noon and then had lunch in one of the conference rooms. Our lunch consisted of chicken fingers, Mac N Cheese and cookies.

After lunch we had our third prayer session on Decide. This session focused on God’s word and making the right decisions. The prayer session lasted about an hour and we had free time to go back to the water park until 6pm.

When the clock hit 6 it was time to go back to the hotel and pack up our things and go back home to Avon Lake.

We were all very sad that the weekend went by so fast and our trip was over. We had such a good time that we will be going back next April.