Please Pray for Us

Tonight Mike and I embark on one of the final pieces of our pre-cana adventure with the church: Engaged Encoutner.

Engaged Encounter, aka church camp, is a weekend long event through the Catholic church which we must complete before we can get married. This begins tonight, promptly at 8pm and ends on Sunday around 4pm. Here's what I know:

1. This takes place in the middle of the woods north of Tampa in what looks like a very nice, fairly new church retreat center complete with "cottages", conference center, youth center, and ponds
2. We have to bring a snack to pass: cookies, chips, etc (We're bringing those cookies I sorta messed up the other day but turned out being fine)
3. We have to have a same-sex roommate with whom we share a bathroom. It sounds like there's 1 queen bed and 1 single hideaway bed in each room.
4. There will be activities/meetings/etc from 8:30ish in the morning until 9:30ish at night
5. We will be fed 5 meals over the course of the weekend: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner on Saturday and Breakfast, Lunch on Sunday
6. Cell phones are not permitted in meetings and must be left in the room unless special permission is granted
7. Mike and I aren't really "feelings" people so talking about our feelings could get interesting. 

Luckily, Kady has been very supportive with this so far: "I actually have a feeling that you are going to get so annoyed with it, that you will protest something really rude and get you guys kicked out. Mike will have to sweet talk them into letting you stay."

**Updates to follow**