UPBC

I got the chance to drive to the UP with my mom this past weekend to get Drew from camp. He worked there for 2 months this summer...I'm jealous! It was a gorgeous drive. My mom and I stopped a few times on the way up, once to visit her friend's mom, and once to swim in Lake Michigan once we got over the bridge. We got to camp in time to watch the festivities that happen on the last night of family camp. We enjoyed a delicious camp meal and got to sleep in one of the cabins, just like old times! It was so amazing to be up there. It definitely didn't feel like it had been 4 years since I'd been there last. The best part was that our friends, the Neals, were there. Their oldest daughter and I met when we were about 10 I think, and our families have gone to family camp together many times since. It was so great to see them and catch up. I felt so uplifted and encouraged being up there and talking to people I hadn't seen in a long time. I got to see some friends that I was on staff with and we walked and looked at the new retreat center that's being built. It's crazy how many great things are happening up there. We stayed the night at camp and left the next morning to bring Drew and his friend home. We stopped again at Lake Michigan and swam for a little bit. It could not have been a more beautiful day. It was so hot and humid up there though! I couldn't believe it. I'm hoping to convince Jon to go to family camp or at least work up there for a week next summer.

My mom, sitting on the dunes by Lake Michigan

Mackinaw Bridge

Lake Michigan

The camp sign! Always so exciting to pull into camp after a long drive.


Drew, me and the Neal kids. Last time we saw them, the 3 younger ones (on the left) were shorter than me!

Briana and me.


The morning we left, right as the sun was rising behind the trees.

The staff boys dressed up like safari animals. Drew painted himself gray and was a wolf that ate the zebras.

Canoeing with my mom.