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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Take a Hike!

Did you know you could go hiking in Texas? Who knew! And rock climbing too! A group of us found ourselves in Lake Mineral Wells State Park doing just that! It was an awesome day!
Esther, Sandy (her dog Zeta), Dessa, Angela, Danielle (her dog ?), and Rebeka

Just after we had trekked down to the waterless lake. Scott and Justin have joined for the picture.

The waterless lake, very strange ground. Justin, Aaron, and Esther examining who knows what!

The three brave boys who joined us 5 girls!
Aaron, Scott, and Justin

Surfing on the lake...well at least Angela and I are!

We found this sign laying down on the ground after we had already spent an hour climbing all over everything we saw! Oops!

One of the crevices we crawled through...even the dog posed for the pic!

Really cool trees to climb on too...though I'm really the only one in any danger of falling off, which is why Esther is kind of holding onto me.

As you will see these four brave ones actually scaled a boulder and this is them basking in their triumph! Way to go Gang!

Aaron offers a hand to Dessa while Esther gives her leg a shove up as well! Ha!

Another crevice (and this one didn't require us jumping off a four foot boulder to get to the ground--oh, did I not mention that before!)

Dessa and Rebeka pushing the rock apart so we can take a shortcut!

Let's just say that if one of us fell off the back of this rock there would be no need for a bath later!As you can see not everyone ventured out there, just a crazy ones!

Just one of the trails that wasn't really a trail but was a trail...it was filled with prickly things...the tree limbs, briars on the ground, and catcus too!

The day is coming to an end and so we stopped for one last pose. Dessa just got the memo a little late!

This might be more believable if I was grimmacing instead of smiling! Ha!

We finished the night with a meal as we were all starving! It just so happens I had one of the best Italian dishes I've ever eaten! Amazing!!! Dessa and Angela enjoyed their meals too!



















The Wanderers!

Looking for something free to do on a Friday night a group of us wandered around downtown Fort Worth for two hours! These are pics from our Water Garden adventure. Since it's winter however, there wasn't much water to see, so we just climbed on everything!
Around the Cyress tree is Matt, Katy, Kresta, Dessa, and Brooks

Gloria (a new student from South Korea), Rebecca, Jamie, Lisa, Katy, Dessa, Valerie and then me and Esther almost falling in the pool!

Here we are lined up by the Cyress Trees, notice I got the tree with the boys!

Shh! No talking at the Quiet Pool so says Jamie and Brooks!

Our faces are quite bright!

So the German, Esther says "Let's pretend we're drinking the water" and apparently we all drink water very differently!

The Wandering Group on the Mountain

A picture says a thousand words! Or not.








Happy Bday Kasey!

Kasey had a Birthday and we celebrated by going out to eat of course!
Esther, Katy, Dessa, Kasey!

Karla, Lori, Me!


Welcome Back!

The night I flew back in from Mississippi I was kidnapped by these crazy girls yelling my name out the window of a car and holding signs that said welcome home Kresta. I was then swooshed away to PF Changs, which ended up not being the best it has been, but the time with the girls was awesome!

Dessa, me, and a one-eyed Kasey in the back

This is the two-eyed version of Kasey!

Angela, the driver of the get away vehicle and her accomplice Dessa!

Obviously I'm in great distress!