Ski Retreat

This weekend turned out to be a very eventful time. Friday when we arrived at the mountains it was starting to snow a little, we knew they were calling for a dusting. The group of young adults came up a few hours after we arrived. We needed to make sure everything was in working order and get all the food in and ready. By 5 pm we already had about 2 inches of snow. One of the van drivers called to let us know that they were in Galax about 6 so that I could get the baked spaghetti in the oven so it would be nice and warm when they got there. Joey had thought it would be fun to ride the rhino out and meet them since it was dark and Tom had not been there in a few years. It's hard to explain these back roads to city people. Tom decided to GPS the place and he must have put in to take the shortest route, because he did not come in the way we do. So Joey was sitting out in the now 6 inches of snow and wind waiting on them at a back road to nowhere. I heard knocking on the front door and Tom said I"m Stuck at the bottom of the hill in a ditch. All the 12 young adults were huffing and puffing up the hill with their luggage. Earlier in the conversation with Tom, Joey told him not to come up the driveway, but him being the Yankee that he is he blew him off and told him it would be no problem to get up the hill. Needless to say, Tom and I went in Joey's truck and searched for him by the rhino tracks in the snow, every little road side we could see where Joey did donuts in the snow. We finally found him about 3 -4 miles on the side of a road talking to a farmer who was out dealing with cows having babies in the freezing weather. Tom did not get to live it down that he did not listen and make it up the hill. We had a great meal, a little later than planned, got the van out of the ditch and put at the bottom of the hill so they could go out the next day for a trip to Boone to go an ski. The next morning when we got up it was 11 degrees, the wind was blowing so hard, it was snowing so hard, and they headed out. Joey had to get them to the main road and stayed with them in case they need to be pulled out with a chain from a ditch. There was about 8 inches of snow. So our dusting that was expected became multiplied and the adventures began.
They had a great time at the ski lodge, finally made it home at 9 that night. We were blessed to have such great people in this group, it was fun, we played games, prayed, had devotions, ate alot and just talked. Joey and I were a little nervous having 16 people in that little house, the sleeping arrangements, the little septic tank HA!, but all in all it could not have gone any better.