Sr. High Week And Homer Trip

Sr. High Week was our first week of official camp! This week I worked in the kitchen as a waitresses and in the dishwash with several other staff girls and Daniel was a camper. We had a good turnout with lots of eager campers and excited counselors. Days started at 7 am with staff prayer meetings followed by chapel times, meals, games, crafts, free time, snack shack and lots of competition. As fun and as good as it was, it was also busy and so this post may be a bit jumbled!;)

Singing before an evening session....

Foosball with some small friends....

Brittany, our Nurse for the summer, and Sequoia preparing water balloons for a game...

Getting ready for the picnic dinner....

This year, we had dinner on Wednesday out under the new pavilion the guys just finished building at the beginning of this summer!

It's a real blessing to have this done...

 Daniel's cabin.....

The snack shack was a popular place...

Mrs. Garris and Mrs. Nelson (the speakers' wife) working hard in the snack shack!

"Nurse" enjoying babysitting during a session...

Each night we had a special for the campers. This particular night this group was playing My Jesus Fair. Our speaker Dan Nelson did an excellent job preaching but unfortunately I never really got any good pictures of him during sessions or the camp week.

That weekend, several of us staff members went down to Homer for a day. We were all so tired and completely worn out but it was still a lot of fun! On the drive down we stopped at this general store to use the restroom and buy some souvenirs.

Stopping to enjoy the scenery before entering the spit....

A picture for Ryan....

A sibling picture....we have really enjoyed this summer together in Alaska!:)

Daniel and Angela in the back of the van-almost there!

We split up into groups. Our group consisted of Angela, Emma, Daniel, Nathanael and I. Here we are minus the two guys. We enjoyed walking up and down along the deck looking at the boats and fishing gear. It was all very exciting but after the first ten or twenty, we weren't as appreciative as we had been in the beginning!

A picture for Susie!!:) We miss you!:)

We stopped for awhile to watch a guy who worked for the charter boats,  hang up these fish before cleaning them. This is where people can take pictures of their catch after their fishing trip.

After awhile we went down to the beach and started skipping rocks. It reminded Daniel and I of home hearing the waves crash on the beach..;)

Most of us staff girls...:) Left to right: Angela (from SC), Zoey (AK), Me (CA), Brittany (WV), Becky (HW), Melissa (AK), and Emma (PY). It's neat to see how God brings us from so many different places to work together!

Daniel wanted a picture of this because his middle name is John....

Everyone was supposed to figure out their own dinner and it took a long time for our group to decide where to eat! We were all beyond tired and it was a very comical experience. It was good to be with people who understood and shared that common bond of being close to insanity due to lack of sleep.;)

It's shouldn't be that hard to decide what to order........ but, it was for us and we even had a mini conference before we did!

Dinner.....hungry and running on adrenaline are not the best combination but we survived!;)

 Heading out of the Spit to drive back to camp.....

 

 We were grateful for the trip down to Homer after a busy good week at camp. It was a real blessing to be able to enjoy the beauty of God's creation there. It's hard to believe that people can look at this beautiful state, Alaska, and not recognize that it was created by an intelligent and powerful God! Praise the Lord for His magnificent handiwork!

 

For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

                Colossians 1:16