i went to bed at 5:30 friday afternoon and woke up at about 11:05 saturday moning ... 17 hours of sleep... i was tired. so here we go:

camp was great.
SUNDAY was the usual, sign-in say hey to everyone i haven't seen in a year, unpack, goof off till supper, church, feild of dreams(i played football), bon fire devo, makendox, and go to bed. the biggest/best parts of sunday are finding out who's gonna spend the week with you and the bon fire devo. bon fire went really well. it was great. we had it down in the rock quarry, and the fire was huge, the singing was amazing, and it was just cool. and yes, we did have hamburgers for super... imagine that. kelly slept with me, and made me sing to her and the rest of the cabin till she fell asleep at 2AM...

MONDAY we all woke up ready to go, fired up all the way. we divided into teams after breakfast and class and had our first team games. we played soccer, and won, i scored a goal, daniel scored one, and carson and kyle had an assist. the other team, had nothing. our second game we played football, great times... although we lost, it was fun. i got tackled (in flag football) by this very large 14 year old, and oh my goodness! i still hurt! i was hurting all week after that. following team games was lunch, and the theme for the week being "the mole" we had to wear a mole on our face... a large mole... fun. rest time came after lunch, it was good... lots of sleep. we did the creek after rest time. there was this pipe thing to jump off of, and it was really fun. when we got back from the creek, we changed for the pool, where we had more team games. i was in the breath holding constest where i got 5th, the moment i got under water i sneezed! all of my air was gone, and i practically drowned myself trying not to get last. then after the pool was devo and our lesson from paul rogers. following that we had battleball. my team started to do really good, then we got bad, and then we got good again. and then we went to bed about 11:30.

TUESDAY a few of us started to drag our feet. after breakfast and class, we played hush buttons during morning-o-challenges, i had to throw this sock thing and i got 4th,cause i had never done it before... and i of course did not loose my hush button.then we played waffleball, fun game, and the guys won hush buttons. then came lunch, rest time, and then the creek run. i came in 58th(better that last year's 84th) beating a lot of people i didn't think i would have. i beat joe, jackie, courtney, and scott, and a lot of people that could have EASILY beaten me. carson won, and he was on my team, so that was really good. after the hay ride back to the buses and then the bus ride back to camp, we changed for the pool, where we got to just goof off. that was fun. after the pool was devo with craig, and then pass and shoot. my team was good at pass and shoot for about 3 games, and then it was all downhill. after that, we went to bed about 12:00.

WEDNESDAY we were getting tired. we had our usual breakfast and class then we had the softball tourney, our team was brutally beaten twice. the 1st time, it was understandable, the other team was fierce, and the 2nd time, we had the worst field ever, it was long grass, we wouldn't see the bases, which we had to walk out because there weren't any there because we were on a FOOTBALL FIELD. we had to wait for scott to go back to camp, get bases, more bats, and balls, so we could play because we were the losing teams.ehh. we ate at mcdonalds, and got our food cheap then came rest time and that night we went roller skating, megan and i just kicked off our skates and started line dancing about half way through our night at the roller rink, it was really fun, then we skated again. after skating we went and had devotion with darren shavers, and then we had makendox madeness, in which my team had 10 1st places, one of them being me winning ping pong. yay! so after makendox, we went to bed. around 12:30.

THURSDAY everone was really pokey, and worn out we had breakfast and class as usual team games, we lost... and then lunch, rest time, and "the fair up there" we had the blowup stuff you see at fairs, and it was really cool, we had the giant slide, an obsicle course, and jousting, which i on twice. i was no good at the obsticle course though.we had that thing, and "carny" games for about 4 hours, so that was fun. then we had supper and an amazing devo with mike kelley, the singing was so great. it was straight from the heart of every teen in there, and it was just so uplifting, i lost my voice during that devo... and then there was an awesome fireworks show! it was the coolest thing i had ever seen. it was ALL the fireworks that the big tent that half of our youth group works at, it was ALL the fireworks they didn't sell...it was so cool. around 1:00 that morning, we all climbed into bed... about 3:00 that morning we all actually went to sleep.

FRIDAY woke up, ate, cleaned, packed, lunch, left. clint and i always go to snappy's on the square before he goes home, so this year we invited a couple people to go with us, and it was really fun. i almost cried when ryan(not my church ryan) left. i know i haven't mentioned him in the whole post, but i've spent my last 7 summers hanging out with him at camp. every year that's who i spend my week with basicly. ryan is so awesome.. a bit weird, but who's to say i'm normal.

so, now i'm home... and my throat hurts really bad, and i have drainage like nobody's business, but the joys of camp make up for it. i love camp, and the people there.

quote of the day:
"i tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter."
-linkin park

love puddles..............................