We're half way there....

We're just wrapping up week number four, and reaching the half way point. It's nearly the end of July already..crazy stuff. I don't know where the time has gone.

It's been a more challenging week for most, as we're beginning to break down spiritually, physically, and emotionally. There's been tensions and fights amoung co's, campers who are continually crying, bitterness amoung staff, and just an all round feeling of fatigue. I don't think it helped to have a very very gloomy day weather wise yesterday, as it seemed to just dampen everyone's spirits further.

But...on a more positive note. This afternoon, the sky cleared up (finally) and although it has remained cool, the glorious sun came out and just brightened up everything. I have had one of the best last evenings of camp that I can remember. It's crazy how just a little bit of sunshine can turn around everyone's day..staff and campers. (I finally had an evening without either of my two homesick boys coming into the office demanding that they were leaving that instant.)

And the highlight of the week..we had our first ever County Fair!! We decided that the traditional last night of Carnival was definitely dying and needed to be laid to rest (Rob's exact words were that it had died..and was buried with a very lovely tomb stone...and it was now time to move on..). So we kept what we liked, and re-vamped the evening program entirely. Earlier in the day Sara and I went to the Queensville Country store and bought some potato sacks (one of the funniest moments of my summer) so that we could run sack races. So, the evening consisted of things from the races, to Jello eating contests (which I had the privledge of running..and did I ever have the time of my life!) to arm wrestling competitions, to a random wide spread game of dodge ball. We even had one of the female cabin leaders walking around playing her violin, so that she could be a wandering fiddler to add to the atmosphere. A fantastic evening overly.

I have really enjoyed seeing how much my cabin leaders have grown and strengthened in the last four weeks...and so many don't even realize just how much God is using them. A fantastic moment tonight was when Brendon (Tickles) was sitting with one of the youngest campers (only 6) at the final camp fire and trying his very best to answer every single question that the little guy threw out at him. I snuck up and listened for a while, and some of the questions were very random, and quite difficult to answer...but Brendon didn't miss a beat, and I kept hearing him repeat over and over "it's because God loves you SO much!" Beautiful..I love it.

God has been good to this camp, and really been present for the first half of our summer. Things can only get better from here...bring it on.