Bridgefest! Woot! So bridgefest! It was in Ocean Grove NJ! I went with Chapel Falls and spesifically if you didnt know already, the Cortez family and me and my mom went all together! Minus Mr. Cortez! So it was Me, Mel, James, and both moms all in one room! yes 5 people in one room! Poor james being the only boy having to share a bathroom with 4 woman! lol But it worked out fine! The room was nice with a king sized bed in one room and the pull out sofa bed in the “living room” which Mel and i slept on and then james slept on an air mattress we blew up for him! And of course the parents got the huge confy king sized bed! Any way enough about the room…

In the car on the way up all three young folk squeezed in the back there was lots of poking and squishing and leaning and resting on each other meanwhile we listend to some funny songs by KJ-52 and then some Skillet as well! My mini speakers held up for the trip barely! The car btw was soooo packed that Mrs. C (the driver) could not se out the back she had to use the side view mirrors rather then the rear-view cause in the rear-view was nothing but clothes coolers camera bags and etc.

So when we got there we went on the beach for a while! We went in the ocean and it wasnt too cold but after a couple hours Mel and I got tired and went to lay on the beach and listen to more music! lol Let me mention the funny thing was the rain stoped when we got there for the weekend and when we left to come home it started raining again! Amazing right a blessing!

Any whoo… So After the beach we went to get dressed and headed to dinner! Oh boy did some people have fun at dinner with thier clams oysters and sushi! Not me though i stayed away from that stuff! I had my greek salad with grilled chicken! lol Any way So after that was the BIG CONCERT! oh yes! It started at 7:15 ish and went to 11 something at night! IT WAS SOO AWESOME! The Katinas and Mandisa were performing and in between were a couple speakers! They played every bodies favorite worship songs! Michelle and I sang along and prceeded to dance and clap and SCREAM and shout and get jiggy and JUMP and wave hands and pray and worship! lol It was awesome! Great songs great energy and all for God! They played a few of their songs inbetween the good worship songs aswell! and the last song was Shackles by Mary Mary I WAS SOOO HYPED to hear Mandisa sing that song! EVEN MY MOM GOT UP and got Mrs. C up to dance to that song! We left the concert dancing and singing literally down the street back to our car! lol

First off i dont know why i couldnt sleep the first night but i couldnt i got maybe an hour of sleep or at least it felt like it i was half sleep the whole night kept waking up! But oh well I managed to survive on saturday though at points of the day i was REALLY tired!

But we went to surf lessons that morning and that was awesome! I did not get as far as mel and james and standing up but i layed down on the board and caught a few waves! I also did a nose dive a few times and got mouth and nose full of salt water at the same time! Let me tell you that is NOT comfortable! that happened a few times when i was trying to dive under waves both days. Sometiems iw ouldnt dive deep enough and get caught right in the wave and get dragged along. But i survived! So then after surfing which btw the water was nice and warm….

we did a little more “swimming” and the water just suddenly became ICE COLD! SO COLD that with in a few minutes you could not feel your limbs! The rest of the day you couldnt be happy you were either freezing in the ice cold water or burning in the hot sun! The only time you were happy was the time when you just got out fo the water and were still cold from the water and wet and the sun started to warm you or maybe when yo uwere in teh shade. and a few of us (all but michelle) got burned some of us worse then others…. my poor face looked like a lobster! I wish someone woulda told me so i coulda put more sunscreen on! But i got so tan!

After swimming for a bit mel and i and mrs. C went to skateboarding demo. I took a few pictures there! After that we headed back to beach mean while mom and james had been on a “secret mission” to get what we later found out when we got back was to get boogie boards! She got two boogie boards! Right away james and Mel went out boogying! lol Then for a bit we headed over too our church familys tent and hung out there for a bit! I also saw kelsey there who the whole time was RIGHT NEXT TO us and i never even noticed! I knew she was there but didnt know where! She was there with her friends and family! Her church didnt come. So she and i went out boogying for a while. We went pretty far out further then we thought we did! So far that the waves werent even crashing yet! but it was relaxing there! And then the whistle called us in and we road as many waves as we could back! So i parted with her and we headed over to the baptism!

Mel and james both got baptized along with several other people! I took pictures while james tried to record around the peoples heads! there was a CROWD of people! it was hard not to mention trying not to get the camera equiptment wet from the crashing waves! which by the way by this time the under tow was VERY STRONG and pulled out the sand from underneath your feet you jsut keept sinking deeper and deeper if you were standing where the water came up to! It also made the baptism a little more difficult with the crashing waves and the pulling out a couple times Pastor Nathan and Mike nearly lost their balance and fell in the water right with the person they were baptizing lol

So after all that we rushed up to get dressed and catch the shuttle bus back to our car which we made it to the bus just in time! So we went back to the hotel to put our stuff away and then we went out to dinner with the Writes! That was so much fun! We went to chillies Mel and i sat next to each other and laura and victoria across from us! There was conversation about food of course! and how hot sauce makes everything better! (I had a fahita so i needed my hot sauce) and there were debates about the book of enoch and talk about the dark and seeing scary things in the dark and times about beng scared of some stupid “horror” films or laughing about them rather! And then there was lots of staring at the tvs and random mumbling about it from victoria! lol It was grand! Finally though we had to go back to the hotel and sleep.

The fallowing morning mel and I went on the beach for a photoshoot for her Demo CD cover and thats about it! We left Ocean grove NJ around 3 and once again in the car on the way home more KJ-52 his silly songs and serious and it was nice but it wasnt as comfortable because every one was so tired and just wanted to sprawl out all over the place but we couldnt! lol So now you can look the pictures! lol they are alllll out of order though i dont know why! but you get the point even though! Also i will post some videos from us in the car!

p.s. I appologize for the few pictures that dont have thumbnails i am having memory limit issues for whatever odd reason it wont resize those pictures or creat a thumbnail for them..! So just scroll through the galler thing to see them

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So a lot happened in a week to make a long story shortish i will just name a bucn of things and create a large run on sentence using commas…. 12 hour car ride, watching some plays, movies, singing some plays and classics from movies, singing and music and more music! Airsoft, Church, home group including poker, mr. president, spit, ERS, clue, settlers of katana or however thats spelled, listening to some cool christian music, like Lecrae, skillet, KJ52, Group one Crew, etc, wathcing some movies and tv too and youtube videos here and there, long talks into the night or rather 2 am in the morning, Giggles and laughter to with that, Nate teaching Esther to waltz, balance hand games, don don daya, and other various hand games, pistol wars at night that cause one to get shot in the lip from a little less then 10 feet away, good food. lots of smoothies which i am now making at home too! watching Kc train sully, a few times i helped with a few chores or cooking or somthing, heh heh, teasing nate with our SPARKLE SHIRTS! MWAHAHAHA, Swimming up the mild rapids and floating back down and chilling in the river, new friends and lots of love and joy! And getting squished every night before bed by Mr. Willis just like the rest of his kids! (large hugger that man is! its awesome!) lol And the pictures will tell you the rest!

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First the ones posted on Facebook already (be sure you are logged into facebook)

And since its easier i just posted the rest on facebook but kept them hidden so i could post them embedded right up here instead of uploading to my blog and all that… So to finish the set (I havet to say I am thinking of redoing Miss Bennet I think it could be better but this is what I did last year so…