Mt. Hermon Is...

-Our favorite place in the whole wide world!

-Powerful worship and challenging speakers (this year we were honored to be in the audience of Luis Palau for the week!)

-No meal planning, cooking or dishes as we eat around big round tables with our families in the dining hall.

-Listening to the brook bubble under our little cabin in the woods during rest and night times.

-The heavenly scent of pine trees that rolls in your car windows as soon as you start climbing those hills.

-The brightest stars and moon seen anywhere.

-Getting all cuddly in a sweatshirt in each morning and evening's brisk air (and knowing it's about 90 degrees back home!)

-Campfires and goofy sing-a-longs.

-An emotional end-of-the-week outdoor communion service.

-Crazy counselors and a day camp sooo fun, my girls couldn't wait to get rid of me!

-Just enough down time to sink into a fabulous book.  This year I read this one, mostly on a bench in the sun.  It was lovely (the book and the sunbath!).

-Beach Day, Train Day, Redwood Canopy Tour Day and the End of Day Camp Program (stories coming soon!)

-Getting to see and spend a bit of time with Daddy, who is just up the hill at high school Hi-Camp.

-FELLOWSHIP WITH FRIENDS that is so rejuvenating it has us hugging in tears in the parking lot when the week is over (even though we'll all see each other at church tomorrow.)

-Time with good friends, Beth, Allie, Nathan, Phil and Teri.

-Watching my girls enchant everyone and get majorly loved on.

-Sleeping all together in the big bed with our legs twisted up like noodles.

-Roasted marshmallows and s'mores!

-Late nights playing in the field house and then group night caps at The Fountain Ice Cream Shop.  New for us with older kiddos this year!

-Hiking to the waterfall then wading and throwing rocks in the creech.

-Ponderossa Pines, Coastal Redwoods, King Squirrels, and Banana Slugs!  Things God created just for Mt. Hermon that can be found in abundance on any nature hike.