Nick was asked last week to come and be 'Vicar of the Week' at summer camp - Iowa District East Camp. The whole family was invited, so we left Sunday after church and will be here until Friday afternoon. It's been quite the experience with 2 small children, but hopefully we've been a positive influence on the 50ish teenagers here this week. Their days are scheduled very well and it seems like such an awesome place to meet new friends and have fun. Morning prayers start at 7:30 (which Nick leads) and the campfire ends the day at 9:30. I've spent a lot of time in our room because Ava is sleeping a ton. Cade is having a blast running around doing things and hanging out with the big kids. Hopefully Ava and I can go with Nick and Cade the next time they visit the horses and ride canoes so we can get pictures! I'm also trying to sneak a picture of Nick leading the prayer services at the Amphitheater. I've only made it to about half of the services because of Ava's sleeping 'schedule' (she sleeps when she's tired!). While it's been stressful (I'm learning that most everything in life is once you have children), it's been such a neat opportunity to be here and meet wonderful people and see the time they invest in putting together a great program for these kids. It's also been nice to have 3 square meals a day prepared for us and no dishes to wash!
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are they making special veggie meals for you?
No, but we still had a huge meal 3x a day. The main dishes were like spagetti, pizza, eggs, tacos, sub sandwiches, all things that were fine or we made work (no sauce on the spagetti or no meat on the sub) and even when it was meat (sloppy joes) they had a huge tray of pb&j sandwiches at every meal. Plus a full salad bar with veggies, cottage cheese, applesauce, pineapple, watermelon, melon, yogurt, etc. I thought for sure I was going to gain weight being there! They have a 'clean plate' award for the campers, so we also made sure we cleaned our trays. Oh, and dessert with every meal!! Usually a cookie or apple crisp type dessert. The last day brunch was awesome. An egg casserole (with or without ham) with tons of cheese and potato in it. Whole grain blueberry muffin. Fruit. Cereal. Awesome. :) Aww, now I'm hungry after typing so much about it!! We had fun though. Stressful, but fun.
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