4 Day Hike

So today we are leaving for a 4 day hike on the AT with our good friends Whitney and Morgan (a married couple, morgan is the boy). Adam has already hiked almost all of the AT (they had to stop when his brother got lyme disease) and he has a 4 day route planned for us that will take us about 30 miles. We are leaving tonight and hiking about a mile in the dark to camp. Then we will get up Saturday and hike about 8 miles to where we are meeting two other couples from church to camp that night. Our camp site is about 2 miles from that meeting point. The next day we are getting up and having our own church service out in God's creation (this is what I am looking forward to the most). When I worked at Camp Rockmont in Black Mtn, NC we would get up every Sunday and meet on the pier in the middle of the lake and physically worship God as the sun came up. We would do certain moves to show gratitude, humility, forgiveness and other things...it sounds weird but it was very powerful and our worship can be physical!! Anyways, after that the two couples are going home and Adam, myself, Whitney and Morgan are continuing on for another 11 miles to our camping site for Sunday night. Monday we will have about 8 miles left to go til we reach our destination. I think all of us, minus Adam, have never been on a trip like this and we are very excited. Its been a lot of planning with packing foods, sealing foods, packing clothes, sleeping bags, tents, hygiene stuff ( a small amount) and arranging for a car to be at the end destination. I just know we will have a wonderful time and enjoy God's creation. Last night we took Whitney's car to leave at our last stop and decided to hike a little bit of the trail just to see where we would be ending up...it was breathtaking. The leaves are changing, the weather is perfect, and Whitney and I jumped twice in our little 500 yd walk at the site of bugs. Sounds like we are going to have a blast!