Last day, last thoughts and last photos

Home safe.  Tired, but a good tired.  Grateful for what we saw, experienced, felt and understood, and grateful to have been there to watch God's story unfold in many lives.  Some last random thoughts, lessons and observations:

- You have to turn the volume up on the movie if you want to hear the best parts.  Timing is everything.

- Baken-ets (bold&spicy variety) -- and yes, that is the actual name -- are now considered a banned substance on all future stillwater trips.  For those not familiar, Baken-ets = pork rinds.

- The trip leader is expected to know at all times the answer to any question relating to time of day, time to destination or time until future food consumption.

- Compression shorts are a good thing to wear to waterfest. 

- Lots of steps down = lots of steps up

- achieving consistent water temperature in a shower can be harder than you think.

- Worship with 800 middle schoolers is pretty awesome. 

- Somewhere between  Covenant and Dublin is a Pilot travel stop with the largest display of slim jim/jerky products this writer has ever seen.

- the weather changes quickly on top of Lookout Mountain, in a beautiful way.

- God never stops working.  God never stops caring for us.  God never stops speaking to us.  Even when we listen to other voices.  I pray each of us has ears to hear the One who knows and loves us best.