1.29.10

Dear Blogger,

As you know, I'm writing this on the 30th not the 29th as I am deceitfully labeling it because I wasn't here! Now I must recolect everything...wow so much happened. Here goes...

Well on the 28th in the evening time we arrived and threw everything into our cabins, I got the bunk I always get, whatevers closest to the door so I can get out in the morning fast to take a shower...and stay far enough anyway from just a few very LOUD girls.

We had some fun mixers...like where we all had to hold hands and maneuver a hula hoop around a chain of people I was holding hands with this guy named Carlos...

"This is the first time I've ever held a girls hand." Carlos looked past me, nervously twiddling his fingers. "Besides my sisters."

I just kind of stared at him...and laughed in the inside. "Well there's a first for everything!" I said, pulling my hand away.

So yeah we had some interesting times.

That night the activity was Sardines. However, it was about 10 degrees out with a huge wind chill and there were over 200 kids. It was horrible. I tried to make the best of it, but just ended up sitting inside the rest of the time playing the piano.

That night we went to our cabins, had a devotion, and I tried my best not to snap at the girls that talked continually about everything on this danged earth while others tried to sleep...I really need to work on my patience.

1.29.10

Day two...ish.

So I woke up and did my devo's in chapel, and I found a quarter. (I gained 91 cents this week actually from things of this nature...) Devos were amazing (: I love camp. I LOVE JESUS! So we had breakfast and I tried to sit with a different table almost every meal. Funny thing was though, only two tables the whole time had one other girl at it. So evoking the "Ladies First" rule always went over well and I got food first :D

That's when he had some wonderful cabin devotion time and the headed off to the activity center. This is where we turned off all the lights and the strobe and black lights kicked on. I was a chaser and pretty much was supposed to steal peoples flags in the dark whilst they collected magnets. However, I had more fun just using the strobe light to sneak up on people and then freak them out when it flashed...ahh so fun. WE played a few other games, had chapel, and then there was a talent show! Everyone auditioned from a guy who would kick himself in the head, to a boys band that used kitchen utensils to make music. It was all pretty incredible. I made up a song about the camp and put it to the tune How To Save a Life - The Fray...it was pretty fun.

We had some free time where I pulled out some card tricks...hahaha SO MUCH FUN. I love doing card tricks on people that have no idea how card tricks are done, the effect is so much cooler.

We played some outdoor games and some indoor games that involved eating weird things...all in all it was a fun time. That night was so hard to get to sleep because one of the girls in my cabin has quite the imagination, I love her, but I was TIRED.

Wanting to go to bed but can't because she has to finish these blogs...Mandy

P.S. Yes, I'm aware of the grossness of the picture, we were all getting ready for bed...