Randoms of Week 5 & Starting Week 6: Work Crew

Hi all. Sorry I haven't finished updating on week 5 so I figured I would now. I had a great week with my middle schoolers (my babies!) and I can't believe there were 211 of them! They were actually really good and pretty well behaved for all 211 of them! We had a lot of rain this week and one day got a 3 hour rest hour because of a severe thunder storm. It was pretty awesome. Nurse Robbyn went out on the sailboat with me and some campers one day. She is awesome and so much fun and did all the work for me! haha. We had this one gator in the lake that day that was quite brave with us. He swam right up to all the boats and was at least 7 ft long. The boats guards would scare him away and then he would just resurface after 5 minutes. It was pretty crazy. Overall it was an awesome week and we have almost got rid of all the sickness. Yay! Oh I wanted to share a typical day in the life for me at camp with you all so I though I would write down the schedule so you could get an idea. Some of it might not make sense but I figured it would be cool to share:

Typical Tuesday:

7:00 wake up

7:20 breakfast

8:00 Morning devotions

8:20 Cabin Cleanup

8:50 Praise Time

9:30 Ropes Course

11:15 Small Group

12:00 Lunch

12:45 Rest Hour

1:45 Pool and Pool Game

3:15 Change

3:30 Free time in Lodge

4:00 Skill 1 (canoe, sail, frisbee, ext.)

5:15 Dinner

6:00 Change

6:15 Skill 2

7:45 Snack Shack

8:30 Worship

9:30 Cabin Party

10:45 Bed

This is our shortest day! haha 10:45 bedtime is early so don't think I get to go to bed that early every night:) It's usually 11:30-12:00ish.

Ok so now on to the weekend:

This weekend was mid summer and it was SO much fun! We didn't have saturday morning jobs and we got to move into the big cabins to be together for the weekend. We had town time until 3 and I went to Panera with my friend Lianne. We also got pedicures which was AMAZING!! haha Then we had free time at camp and we had our 7th annual 9 square tournament. Then at 5:00 we went just down the road to one of our team member's summer house and had a huge pool party. We had catering, pool time, a huge slip and slide, volleyball and a chocolate fountain! It was just the relaxing evening we all needed. We then spent a wonderful chill evening at camp. They set up hammocks all over camp for us which was so great! Sunday we got to sleep in until 10! I hadn't slept in that lake in 8 weeks! haha We got more town time and I went with my small group to olive garden which was awesome:) Overall the weekend was fabulous and we had some great relaxing fun!

This week:

I found out that I will be spending my week on work crew. I had work crew week 6 last summer too so I'm pretty excited. We were in the kitchen at 6 a.m. this morning! oh joy! haha But then I actually had to drive back home for a regular doctor's appt and ended up also going to quick care because I have had this horrible cough and chest pain for about a week now. Looks like I have a little chest cold and lots of congestion so I got some good meds to help me:) I'm staying home tonight to rest up and heading back to camp tomorrow morning to join my work crew. I miss everyone so much and I've only been out for a day! Shows you how much we love each other there! Well I'm going to go rest up and I will talk to you all soon:)

Love, Shannon