Sacred Heart Journals - Day 1

On Sunday, March 9th, 30+ boys, dads and Legionaries departed for a trip to visit the Sacred Heart Apostolic School in Rolling Prairie, IN.

Follow the boys' daily adventures as seen through the eyes of Ian - a 12 year old boy from San Antonio- and Jose - a dad from Houston. 


by Ian Crossey
12 years old

                On Monday we finished our trip to Sacred Heart Apostolic School. We arrived at about noon and had a great tour by an Apostolic. After the tour we visited the chapel and said the Angelus. At lunch we were introduced to the rules and told to mingle with the Apostolics and Canadians. At my table I sat with three Apostolics and at first it was really boring and no one was talking, but I noticed a kid sitting alone at a table. I went over and invited him to our table. Later I found out he was a Canadian and was really talkative, therefore he got the Apostolics and I laughing and finally talking to each other.
                     

            After lunch we went over to the sand dunes, only about a thirty minute drive. Everyone had their own sled and we went on a beginner slope to get the hang of sledding. Afterwards, we all took the long trek up a massive hill close by. Once at the top, several of us tried different ways of sliding down, some face first, feet first, "Surfboarding", and body sledding. After that, some of the guys built two awesome snow men while others started an epic snowball fight with the goal being of destroying the snowmen. Only one survived! From there we took a hike to Lake Michigan.

         

             Once at Lake Michigan - several pictures were taken to better describe this - we saw a frozen wave! We did not go onto the ice far enough to touch it, but we took several pictures. Many of us walked on the frozen shallows and now we are not lying when we say "I walked on Lake Michigan!" or " I walked on Water!". We were about to start our hike back to the dunes when someone spotted the bus in the distance coming down the road to the beach. We were pretty far away so the driver went over a sand hill and off the road to get closer to us. We all loaded into the bus, and tried going back over the same hill but couldn't without getting stuck. We all started looking for a way the bus could get back on the road but most places had even bigger hills and locked gates. We then found a tiny slope and started using the sleds to make it smaller and finally in about twenty minutes we got the bus over the slope and drove back to the school.

         

           We all took showers, changed, and went to mass. After Mass we ate dinner and went back to the dorm and changed into our relaxed clothes. After a bit we went to the gym and played three rounds of dodgeball. No one was the real winner because teams were put on different sides in all three rounds. Next we went to the smaller chapel and said night prayers. We then went back to the dorm and fell asleep in about twenty minutes.

by Jose Rodriguez

dad

After 18 hours of travel, we arrived to Sacred Heart Apostolic School in Rolling Prairie, Indiana.  As soon as we arrived, we received a warm welcome by the Director and General Dean of the Apostolic school Father Ronald and Father Jason.  Father Ronald showed the dads our room which was nicknamed "The dads' frat house".  Shortly after, Alan Rodriguez, apostolic student gave us a tour of the school.  After the tour, we all met in the dining room for lunch.  We then got ready and headed out to the Warren Sand dunes state park where everyone sledded down the snow covered dunes.  It was great to see some of the younger boys overcome their initial fear of sledding down.  After their first time down, they didn't want to stop sledding and keep sledding down those dunes!

After sledding, we all walked over to see Lake Michigan and it was frozen!  We were actually able to stand on the frozen lake! After this great experience, we now have bragging rights to say we walked on water (Lake Michigan)!

We then headed back to Sacred Heart for a much needed shower and change of clothes.  After freshening up, we had mass in the Sacred heart chapel celebrated by both Father Michaels.  We then ate, prayed night prayers and called it a night.   I slept like a baby.