I spent the first week of the camping season helping the new Wilderness crew get settled... and I really loved every minute. I love being vital to something -- being someone who, if you're not there, the whole operation wouldn't be the same. I know, it sounds egotisical, but it's refreshing to be more than a drone... to be flown out to accomplish a task they wouldn't trust to anyone else. And, when all's done, to have done such a good job at training that I'm no longer the only one that can do it.
But then, I also just love camp itself. I don't how many times these past several days I turned to Andrew and said, "This is my favorite part of the week" -- because whatever is happening, it's my favorite at that moment.
I love waking up and hearing the birds outside my tent the first morning. I love watching the kids play teambuilding games, and then struggle to the top of the rock wall, and pack up for their overnights. I love setting up the GPS games. I love chatting with the staff at our campout at the ranch while we yell at the kids to go to sleep, and rising the next morning to Anita's coffee and cookies. I love seeing the kids at the beach, and on the slip 'n' slide, and down the Big Mtn Bike Ride, and up the ropes course. I love eating all fruit for lunch, and almost all meat for dinner. Looking back on past years, I even love when things go wrong, and we have to figure out "OK, how are we going to handle things THIS time?" Most of all, I love talking with the kids at meals and bedtimes, and hearing their questions in counselor Bible study, and sitting around the campfire telling them stories to help them understand our God and His love for them.
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sixty-some-odd eprops
Rock on, yo!!!