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Winter Wonderland

A few weekends ago we went up to Wynola to check out an AMF camp. Wynola is about 10 minutes below Julian; and Wynola is about 45 minutes from our house. As many of you know we went on a trip this summer to look at camps in the Northwestern United States. None of them as of yet have seem to be the place God wants us to go. A few of our friends told us about Camp Wynola and the director Keith Stringfellow. So we emailed back and forth and decided to go up and check it out!
It's a BIG camp around 50 acres. They have a rock wall, a zip line, and lots of other really cool camp stuff! Mr. Stringfellow was really nice. He showed us around and gave us some history of the camp. We really like it so we're going to volunteer at the winter camp in the end of February. We want to serve God in a camping ministry of some sort, but we're not sure if we are to be full-time, part-time or just to be extra volunteer hands at a camp in our area. So if you have time we could use some prayer in making those decisions! In the meantime we've decided to get involved here and now in any way we can.

So after our big trip to the camp, we were so close to Julian we couldn't resist! We went to our favorite coffee shop and had lunch and hot cider. Then we looked at a few shops and enjoyed the cold air. (This was when it was getting down into the high 20's at our house. I guess they said that there were even snowflakes at Imperial Beach? I couldn't see them in the picture they showed, but what do I know? I didn't go to school to be a meteorologist! ) We decided to up to sunrise highway. That's where we go when it snows down here. Last year they got about 3-4 feet all at once! It had been so cold that we were sure there was snow...so off we went. While there was some snow more than that there was ice!
The ice had frozen to the plants and trees, there were plants that were half frozen crystal white and the other half was still green. The trees were frozen in whatever direction the wind had been blowing the night before. It was AMAZING! I hadn't seen anything like it on such a large scale before! The sun was out and thawing things out but also reflecting off all the ice. It was like being in a sea of prisms. It also reminded me of what it must have looked like when Narnia started to defrost! Maybe C.S. Lewis had seen something like this when he was writing his book! :)