Updates

Once we “recovered” from our adventure with fireworks in DC (IT WAS AWESOME!) it was time to get to work with the work we had worked so hard to be ready for.

We arrived at the church where everything is going to go down, received a very brief training and then went an met our buddies.  These are the children we each will get to spend our entire week shadowing and playing with.  God’s hand was all over this first encounter, assigning the right member of our group with the right child.  This was the first day of camp for everyone, not only us, so there was a lot of figuring out just what was going on (for the campers, staff and volunteers) but in all our group was blessed, exhausted and excited about the rest of the week.

There will be pictures in the future, but the will be limited in accordance with the camps photograph policies. So, I hope these are enough for now

Too sleepy to post. I’ll tell you about it tomorrow.

Even though it started much earlier our day didn’t begin until we were in DC. Getting there involved a flight, a van ride, waiting for a van and one meal eaten too close to a trashcan. The time in our nation’s capital was filled with seeing the some of the sights and being surprised at the size of them. The Iwo Jima Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial were our first stops, but getting from one to the other took some adventurous driving and two passes around the Pentagon.

After these stops and some dinner a walk to the White House was in order. It was there that thing turned soggy. The rain came down… Some dashing young men in our group made a mad dash 1/2 a mile in monsoon-like conditions to retrieve our silver van (name to be assigned) while the rest huddled in a small doorway of the Treasury building. With that we returned to the hotel to find dry clothes.

WE LEAVE SUNDAY!

Meet at DFW Airport at 6:30.  Terminal and Gate to be announced