steal your heart away

So we've officially determined that we're going to New Mexico for spring break! All of the older kids camps went there together last year, and we decided it was the best option for our camp to go back this year. We'll be by ourselves and take about 12 kids, so it'll be nice and small so we'll have a lot of fun activities planned. Plus, it helps that my director, Garrett, is from NM and can hook us up with lots of awesome things to do. We do, however, have to all start thinking seriously about fundraising for the trip. We're thinking the trip will cost about $8500 total, and I think we already have about $3000. So If any of you are feeling particularly charitable, let me know!

On another note, we had the junior high all-nighter on Friday night. 60 kids- skating, bowling, pizza, hanging out in the gym, bus scavenger hunt thingy at 4 in the morning. No sleeping, for anyone, whatsoever. It was actually a lot of fun. I started dying a little in the middle, but when we got on the bus for the relay I woke back up a bit. The kids all seemed to have a good time too. I thought 2 1/2 hours at a skating rink was a bit long, but they enjoyed it. I think one of my highlights though was all of my camp kids dancing to all of the music at the bowling alley: cotton eye joe, the electric slide, the macarena, etc. All very entertaining. And the bus rally (haha I think that's the 3rd different way I've referred to it) was really fun. We split up into 2 teams where we had different spots to go to around the city. The kids picked the order in which to go, and then we rode on buses to the different spots and all had to run out and do a task (jumping jacks, sing "funky chicken", do "the jerk") while someone took a picture. Sadly, my bus lost, but that means that my streetleader, Hassie, would get pied in the face, so that's not such a bad loss, ha.

It took a day of sleep to recover, and now things are back to normal. Camp has gone well the past two days. We managed to suspend 3 kids from camp today because they were acting up a lot yesterday. It's always a shame to have to suspend kids, but I guess they won't really learn otherwise.

So here's some pics from the all-nighter: