D&B

This past weekend we took the youth group (31 middle school and high school kids) out on an overnight retreat into the desert. We went dune bashing in cars, sand boarding (like snow boarding but in the sand), played capture the flag, and went swimming. Eight of the kids got stung by jelly fish. We saw these guys 4-wheeling in front of us.

We are in SUVs going up and down sand dunes. The key to sand duning is going straight down the dunes. If you start going sideways down a steep dune, there is a better chance of flipping the car. Before we took the SUVs out in the sand, we deflate our tires quite a bit so that we could get better traction on the sand.

Sand, sand, and more sand.

Here is a picture of the sunrise out in the desert. One of the highschool girls from the youth group is shown in the picture.

Here is the tent we ate in when we spent the night out in the desert. We had rice, chicken, beef kabob, water, and fruit.