Ashley Bingle
Snow Camp 2008
by Ashley on Feb.12, 2008, under Ashley Bingle
Every year our church’s Youth Group goes on a ski trip, for the past three years it has been to Winterplace, a resort in Flattop, West Virginia, which also offers snowboard and ski-blade rental, along with snow tubing. I was privileged enough to attend two years in a row, and was very excited to learn that this year we would be going on a different weekend and therefore get to stay an extra day. I ended up renting a snowboard all three days, although only two of the other nine girls went snowboarding, and they only went the first day. I also had some difficulty remembering how to work the bindings that strap your feet in, and with standing up, but I eventually figured it out.
Because I didn’t take a lesson this year, I had to try to remember the lesson I had last year. I ended up learning to stand up on my toe-edge first, which means you are facing uphill, which is not good because you have to turn around to see where you are going. Everyone kept telling me to turn around and look downhill. I finally figured out how to get started on my heel-edge pretty well on the third day. Some of the veteren boarders in the group allowed me to tag along occasionally and on one of my last runs they took me down one of the green slopes that I had slid off the edge of on the first day and I didn’t fall at all! I even beat them to the bottom!
I had fun the entire time, even on the bus, which we were on for more than 30 hours total over the weekend. There was also only snow on Saturday night when we were waiting for the bus so we could go back to the hotel, so the snow machines were going a lot. The temperature on Sunday, which was our third day at the resort, was down to 7 degrees when we got up and never got above 14 degrees. Lots of the kids were complaining because of the cold, but I had a really great time this year at snow camp.
Also on the third day, before lunch, I went on a run with Shaun Hartsell, the Youth Director, and fell several times, quite a few close to the edge of a drop-off into a ravine. On my last fall of that run I fell back on my left hand an wrenched my shoulder. I did not think that I had hurt it all that bad, but since it was so cold we ended up going into the lodge then so that we could warm up. Later, after we got home, approximately three days after I hurt it, I decided that it actually did hurt pretty bad, so we went to the doctor on Thursday. We found out that I had not broken anything, so that was good, but I had to take anti-inflamatories for a week and wear a sling. I was also banned from physical exhertion for two weeks, and so had to miss basketball in PE, but in the long run, I think I would pick snowboarding over basketball.
This post is a little bit late, and a little bit long, since I got back on January 21st. Part of that is because of my injured shoulder, but mostly it is because I’m still, three weeks later, so wound up about it that I just can’t get my thoughts straight enough to tell all I want to. Anyway, Snow Camp was super great, super cold, and super fun!
Ashley
Halloween Costume Winners!!!
by Ashley on Nov.01, 2007, under Ashley Bingle
As you can see, Amber and I decided this year to go as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. This worked pretty easily, because of Amber’s long hair that made good sized buns and my short hair that was able to be pulled back to give me a Jedi look. We took our costumes to the annual youth group costume party on the Monday before Halloween and ended up tying with each other for first place. The other winners were a girl who made her own tootsie roll costume, someone who dressed up as the youth director, complete with his actual shirt and name tag, and a girl who had a piece of cardboard covered with cobwebs and other halloween decorations along with holes for her head and hands. She claims she was a picture frame…? The adult leaders went as super heros, including The Germinator, Wonder Woman, Superman, and Super Computer Man.
We also went as Luke and Leia to Light Night at our local Chick-fil-a where there are carnival games that win you candy, bounce-houses, and other forms of random fun, in addition to a contest for kids elementery school age and younger. I added glo-sticks to my lightsaber when we went then because we would be outside and it would be dark. Alyssa went as a pirate, with a short sword and her birthday spyglass. She ended up winning second place out of the second and third graders there.
Halloween is always fun for us because we enjoy coming up with the costumes, and I always have fun acting silly for a day. Now all we have to do is figure out what to be next year…
The Seven Days of Fun
by Ashley on Jul.12, 2007, under Ashley Bingle
On the first of vacation we saw on the beach, an orange colored sting ray swim by.
On the second of vacation we saw on the beach, two little sharks, and an orange colored sting ray swim by.
On the third of vacation we saw on the beach, three porpoise dolphins, two little sharks, and an orange colored sting ray swim by.
On the fourth of vacation we saw on the beach, four fragile starfish, three porpoise dolphins, two little sharks, and an orange colored sting ray swim by.
On the fifth of vacation we saw on the beach, five whole sand dollars, four fragile starfish, three porpoise dolphins, two little sharks, and an orange colored sting ray swim by.
On the sixth of vacation we saw on the beach, six sandy children, five whole sand dollars, four fragile starfish, three porpoise dolphins, two little sharks, and an orange colored sting ray swim by.
On the seventh of vacation we saw on the beach, seven billion crabs, six sandy children, five whole sand dollars, four fragile starfish, three porpoise dolphins, two little sharks, and an orange colored sting ray swim by.
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