Camp Time! and a Westward Trek Back Home

And Part II of our eastward trek with a van load of kids. Part I is here.

Camp was filled with a variety of activities.

Things like hair clinics where girls will fix your hair all pretty.

Art classes

Choir practice for those so inclined…

Lego fun with a contest at the end….

Which can be very difficult for the judges…

Chess…

(Justus’s dorm had a chess tournament. The final championship round was between him and another boy in which the other boy won.)

Sports…

Someone captured this “Bump, Set, Spike” video in which Wesley is the spiker.

And then there were crafts, bread baking classes, softball classes, advanced sewing classes, skits to participate in… There was something for everyone!

And plenty of visiting going on as well.

Here’s a picture we got one night of the snack bar crew minus a few others.

And after a week of friends, fun and special church services that encouraged and admonished, it was time to head home.

It’s a little hard to just say goodbye, so we had a little post camp meet-up at Olive Garden.

Finally we got on the road to head back to Arizona. And about 11pm that night ran out of gas only a few miles from our hotel for the night!

A couple of the boys started walking down the road but thankfully a nice man stopped and picked them up, took them to the gas station, brought them back and wouldn’t take a dime for his trouble but said, “God bless you,” as he drove off beeping his horn.

We actually even stopped in Branson, MO on our way home to see the drama “Moses” produced by Sight & Sound. It was amazing and inspiring!

We reached the Arizona border the next day and the kids had a great time pumping their arms trying to get the semis to blow their horns. The truck drivers were very willing and within 15 minutes they had 140 honks from semis and cars.

And after traveling 30+ hours and 1800 miles, we are home!