Monday, 21 June 2010

We took the night ferry across to Sweden and in the morning Joel made sure we were all awake by “forcing” us to do morning exercises. It was good to move considering we were going to stay in the car for most of the rest of the day. We also had a really good breakfast.


The fact that this was going to be an adventure camp living up to its name was clear from the moment we docked. As I sat in the car and lowered the window, I heard a strange sound and then when I tried to raise the window again, it came up at a strange angle and then started going back into the door. I did not know how to react and the whole window dropped into the car. As we drove out of the ferry, I thought that there is no way I can drive a long distance with my window down. Knowing the speeds we were going to drive at, it was not sensible, so as soon as the first car of our motorcade stopped, I told others about my problem and some young MacGuyvers in our group fished the window out and wedged something in between it and the door to keep it in place.

The first day was spent driving through Sweden. We made several stops and changed people round in the cars. Joel handed out some questions to ask everybody in the car and then we stopped in 45 minutes’ time and changed people round again and went through the questions starting from the other end. It was really interesting and in no time we were crossing the border to Norway and after another couple of hours’ drive we arrived at the Grimerud YWAM base.

We could sleep on the floor of a sports hall and have hot showers. We also repacked our bags to take only the bare necessities to the mountains with us.

Dad and I had the chance to go and meet with Alv Magnus and Ola Ostveit and have some good time of tea, crackers and cheese and good catching up and talking about the worlds’ events.