Saturday, May 24, 2008

outdoors: its what we do BEST!

we're back again! we returned to our hiking site, this time for an adventure in camping. and a WET adventure it was! but who knew that playing games inside a tent with so many wet bodies could be just as fun as enjoying our campfire?! because of the rain, we didn't get as many pictures as we'd hoped! enjoy the random selection ;)
our heros! kyle and mark trying to start a fire, cave-man style!
and all this after setting up our entire campsite before the rest of us arrived!
no one can stop 'em!

our group was almost all new freshmen or second years -yay!

cooking our 'dogs

the girls!

just hanging around!

staying warm by the fire!

skipping rocks in the river


anyone up for a nap?



cute girls!

coffee is a must no matter where you are!


we were serenaded by this local musician....

who was spending the day at the river with these friends!

(the ones standing in the back)

oh the random people you meet :) all in all it was a great time getting to know new students and enjoying the surprises of life outdoors :)

Monday, May 05, 2008

ok, one more!


i just had to include this one. i didn't realize our camera took so fast so i was a bit early on the jump... haha! check out those anticipating faces!

breathing fresh air

as promised, here's a look at our hiking trip we took last weekend. we went with utsunomiya
BEST - so much fun to enjoy one of our favorite places in tokyo with some new friends! we can't wait to go back in a couple weeks for our annual BEST camping weekend! yay for the outdoors!
on the train - it only takes about 2 hours on the train to get to this sweet spot!

group pic

thankfully, this wasn't one of the bridges that fell apart as we walked over it!

tokyo staff
just lovely!
connect four?
jump on 3!
ahh yes, the annual kyle and jen picture by the tulips ;)