Once upon a time…there was a group of four great, amazing, beautiful, goofy friends…

KMAC!Sandy! Gretchen! Kaitlyn!

One weekend they all set off on an adventure of a lifetime known as Fall Getaway…

After hanging out into the wee hours of the morning, they decided it was time to get some shut eye!

So they made their way back to their Texas State Ladies cabin, got into their pajamas, and nestled into their bunk beds hoping to sleep like this little fella…

Unfortunately it didn’t quite go down like that.

The coughing seemed as though it would never cease…and although we did feel horribly bad for the poor girl, we couldn’t take it anymore...

So without an exchange of words, we grabbed our sleeping bags and pillows and headed into the outdoors…

Sandy and Gretchen got real cozy while sharing a sleeping bag.

I believe we got like 2 and a half hours of sleep! Not bad ladies. Not bad.

We woke up the next morning feeling very sleepy, but with a positive attitude knowing that Saturday night’s sleep could not possible be any worse.

Did I mention we were terribly wrong about getting more sleep the next night…?

Sleepy Sandy.

Gretchen was so tired she couldn’t even open her eyes for this picture.

Fast forward to Saturday night…Whew what a long day Saturday was filled with watching the sunrise, many adventures, conversations about Jesus and dancing…and all that running off 2 and a half hours of sleep. So we decided to go down by the river, relax, and star gaze.

The moon.

It was in that moment that we found our sleeping spot for the night, so we went back to our cabin, grabbed our sleeping bags, pillows, and good ole Gretchie, and made our way back to our new home. Within 10 minutes, we all passed out. COMPLETELY ASLEEP! COMPLETELY. ASLEEP.

COMPLETELY.

…and then we were awoken by a loud, obnoxious group of people shining flashlights in our eyes!

I found this on Google…

What was our reaction you might ask? A little something like this…

“You have got to be joking me!”

“I’m SO PISSED!” “AHHH! I was actually ASLEEP!”

So after much contemplation, and a few dirty words, we got out of our sleeping bags and left…with no apology.

When we got back to our cabin we found out Sandy had relocated to Nate’s car (good call on that one), all bundled up…

And we found a spot in a random, dewy, field…

Just when we thought we were actually going to get some SLEEP, we were rudely awoken once again, but the same group of lovely people that woke us up the first time…

So there was a decision to be made…

All I can say is it’s a darn good thing we were at a Christian retreat…

We finally all passed out again, not to be woken up until it was time for breakfast. Only then could we all laugh about the events of the night and how they made Fall Getaway 2011 THAT much better!

The end!

And all the friends lived happily ever after! I love ya’ll!