This camp is getting cooler and cooler every week. Last week camp started on the 4th of July which was a little bit unfortunate because we couldn't set off fireworks or go see any firework displays... but I am really not that into fireworks anyway so I guess that is ok. What we did do was a big bar-b-que and have some fun down at the water front. They had sumo wrestling, zip lining, and banana boating. It was a fun 4th overall though.

Because the holiday was during our camp week, we had a lot less campers... actually we had almost a 1:1 ratio of counselors and campers, which meant lots more break time. One of the days during our break we had a chance to go horseback riding. Now, I have never been too into horseback riding, but I figured that I could handle 45 minutes of riding with no set up or clean up. There you go Dad... I have my dose of horses for the next year :).

Later in the week, we kicked all of the campers off of the banana boat so that we could do a counselors-only ride of the boat, which turned out to be a lot more fun than with the campers. We were flying everywhere on the lake and I think we all took on a lot of water but it was so much fun that we did it again on Saturday. Except the Saturday version was about 4 hours long... oh yeah!

We also took a trip to Valdez for our mid summer staff trip. You probably know Valdez because of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill of 1989, but it is a really nice port town too. So we got an extended weekend to hang out, and now this week will only be 4 days long. The only thing is that this week will be the youngest kids we will have all summer... 2nd graders! Dun dun.

Yeah... so keep me in your prayers. I am going to need strength, heath and patience. Also, pray that I continue to grow spiritually, because I have been seeing an unprecedented amount of growth in myself and I want to see that continue.

I put up some new picutures from the past two weeks, so check those out too.

Also, I hope that everyone else is having a good summer too. Drop me a line and tell me what is going on. I have been trying to keep in touch but it is hard here.