I've been a little stuck lately with blogging, because I haven't quite felt ready to blog about this event. ): The weekend of February 26-28th was the annual high school youth trip to Sunriver. This was our 4th year in a row going, and we always look forward to it because it's such a fun weekend! It's usually Josh's only chance to go snowboarding each year, so he gets really excited about it. Well, this trip turned out to be one that we will never forget!
On the drive from Sunriver to Mt. Bachelor we hit black ice and swerved across both lanes of the highway. Josh was driving and thought he regained control of the car, but the car kept sliding and we ended up rolling onto the snow bank. Thankfully no one was injured and no other cars were involved...but it was very scary!! Our friends & youth leaders, the Fullers, were in the car with us, along with one of the high school girls. We were so thankful for God's protection over all of us (and that God put Josh in the driver's seat, because out of all of us, he was the most calm & capable driver)!
Josh was the first one to climb out of the car, and then he pulled each of us out through the back passenger window. That all happened before the rest of our group (who were driving ahead of us) realized what had happened and came to check on us.
Group photo before the rest of the group went on to ski at Bachelor. Those of us who were in the accident decided to just go back to the Sunriver house to relax for the rest of the day.
A tow truck came to get our car and then we waited to be picked up by someone from our group.
It was sunny and somewhat pleasant as we waited on the side of the road. I think we were all in shock...
Our car was totaled, so we ended up renting a car in Redmond because we didn't have enough vehicles to get everyone home to Eugene.
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Oh, Gretch, how scary - I'm sure that is hard to relive!! Praise God for His protection!!
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