1. To eject (contents of the stomach) through the mouth.
Have you ever had a week that was so completely different than you imagined it would be, even though many of the things you had planned DID happen??
That was last week at camp for me. Just really different and I can't even really explain why. It's not bad or worse just...unexpected.
Our theme was behind enemy lines and lets be honest... there was some days when I really felt we were. Everything seemed like a struggle, everything was just a little more difficult than it needed to be.
I was supposed to give a business plan presentation on Wednesday in Cold Lake (which meant leaving for the day) I needed to finish up some work on it, so I would go into St.Paul to finish it up on Monday afternoon. The program didn't work. I got to email a friend which was great, but didn't accomplish ANYTHING towards the business plan. I wasn't too worried because I had another day. I went in Tuesday... still nothing, I couldn't get into the program, no one seemed to know what to do for ages, until finally we realized we needed a system administrator to download the program to their computers - the system admin wasn't there. Just when I was starting to worry, I got a call to say my meeting wednesday would have to be rescheduled - PHEW!! BIG RELIEF!! So went back to the camp, and decided not to worry about it anymore.
I was at the camp as the prayer warrior, and although I did pray often and much, I didn't have the alone time I thought I would have, the role became something very different than I had imagined. Not bad - just different. I spent a lot more time with people than I figured - which is great, I love people. But today... I feel a little like I missed out on the alone time with God I was sure I would get. I guess I will have to find that for myself here at home :D
I could write pages and pages about the week, but instead here are some highlights.
1. Making the rules movie - Shawn Sales and I were put in charge of making a funny little movie about camp rules. FUN AND FUNNY - loved it!!! wish we had an actual video camera and more than one take, but still really good in the end, thank goodness for Newmans laptop!
2.Cabin clean up - Shawn and I were also in charge of checking the cabins, and let me tell you the "hospitality" was great - Newmans cabin stood out from the rest almost every day, they were pretty genius, but also appreciate that our sisters Joy and Tanya, who shared a cabin, were so great about making sure they catered to us.
3. Chris fumbling for his sunglasses - there is definitely a stary here, but I don't think I can tell it on blogger - anyway, very funny slightly bizzare.
4. Laughing with "the girls"... so many tummy hurting laughs, but especially when we were at the table and joy laughed so hard she puked, none of us really saw it happen, but there on the table in front of her was the throw up - made us laugh even harder (had a camper bleach the table after Joy cleaned most of it up)
5. movies with Jeamie at night
6. Campfire testimonies
7. Stories of Chris manipulating Chet's Sim character also refuse to talk about it on blogger.
8. Silas Nichol -laughs more than any kid I know - so fun and funny, best part is teaching this one year old an african bushman song
There is so much more, that can't even be summed up, plus I really need to go shower, I'm off to the lake for a boat ride and then BBQ this evening (jealous??)
