weekend away 07- no voice, lots of fun and a very muddy stevie...

apologies for my late blog after the weekend away but you will understand why once you read this.

on friday i woke up at 6am and felt like my throat was closing..completely typical. i had to get a sore throat just before the weekend away. but i thought 'i'll be ok, just take lots of painkillers and it'll be fine'
at 2pm Ed and i headed down to kent. it was a very memorable trip. i'll admit i didnt know whether we'd have that much to talk about but it was one of the most hilarious road-trips ever! i played him relient k, we ate sweets, talked about nonsense and got lost...deliberately of course!
unfortunately after moving alot of chairs and tables and setting up alot of stuff i was feeling pretty bad. then all the youth arrived and the fun began :) my voice was croaky though.

got up early on saturday morning and my voice was getting worse. particularly since i then did high ropes with the genesis guys and talked alot. i was good and didnt shout too much though. i didnt really do many of the high ropes but it was good fun and the instructor was lovely.
but by lunchtime i'd lost my voice completely and my throat was hurting alot. it meant i couldnt lead the parts of the teaching sessions i was supposed to. Aidan and Becky were stars though and took over for me. it was good fun. I also then went with the genesis group to do low ropes which was fun but equally tiring. by dinner time i was feeling very tired, very ill and very down. so i decided to go have a nap for an hour before the evening session.
i wanted to talk to my mum but couldnt ring her coz she wouldnt be able to hear me which made me cry lol but texted her for a bit and then went to sleep.
next thing i knew it was 9pm and i'd missed the session :( i wasnt feeling any better so i got changed and went to bed properly, hoping that by the morning i would feel better.

sunday morning and my voice was back but still very croaky. i was with space for the day which was brilliant. alison and i oversaw a military style operation of cleaning the lodge before doing the last teaching session. again i couldnt lead my bit but we did watch the film (hopefully appearing on youtube/facebook as soon as we figure out how to do it legally) which was absolutely brilliant- speeded up, black and white, Aidan playing Jesus and Andy in charlie chaplin style...need i say more??
then we did the low ropes course with the space guys. it was brilliant. i had a wicked group and we got round well. everyone finished early so a gladiator style fight was encouraged. it took place on a long log over a muddy swamp. this fight was between stevie and pj...a clearly fair fight. needless to say stevie ended up quite muddy. stevie then took on alex corps and lost. plus he then tried to walk across the log...silly boy!
once back at the lodge pj kindly hosed him down which was funny! bless stevie was soaked and cold so i got him a towel. it was a fun last event :)
then at the final get-together it was announced that space had won the egg cup challenge which was cool, i'd been with both groups so would have been happy with either of them winning.
then we had our traditional group photo and headed back in for lunch before leaving.
lunch was probably one of the funniest events of the weekend, mostly because Pete, Mike and i had a brilliant conversation :D and also because Alison and i had guessed that lunch would run late and we kept catching each other's eyes across the room and laughing because it was indeed late.
then i went back on the coach because Aidan swapped with me, although it didnt make much difference in the end. i slept most of the way back which was nice.

so basically it was a really good weekend although i felt pretty rubbish for most of it.
i spent sunday evening watching tv and just resting.
during monday night i woke up and took some ibuprofen coz i felt bad still...unfortunately if you take ibuprofen on an empty stomach it can irritate your stomach and make you sick.
something that i didnt know but had the pleasure of realising as i threw up the contents of my stomach at 3am. at that point i was laughing to myself coz it felt a bit like i'd thought i couldnt feel much worse and then i'm throwing up so i guess i was wrong.

needless to say on monday i still felt really bad so went to see the doctor although it wasnt much help, apparently its a viral throat infection and the only way i'm going to get better is to rest lots and drink lots of fluids. so i took today off work and havent done anything. i feel slightly better but not much so i think i wont be going to work tomorrow either but probably go back for thursday.
hope that highlights my weekend, it had good parts but for the most part i'm glad to be home and resting.
prayers for my health please :)
got some busy weekends coming up
much love xx