Camp pictures

Alright, here are the pictures from camp the last week of June. I can't really put up pictures of the clients, so I'm putting ones of staff, the location, some stuff we did (bowling, horses, playing games, etc.), and some super cute girls that I hung out with for the last couple of days (camp director's kids). Btw, the camp was not only for our region but there were clients and staff from Calgary, Coaldale, and Edmonton.
We went out Monday, and that was a lazy day with a craft & snack & supper, but otherwise not much. (I was quite bored, actually.) Tuesday the morning activity was bowling, Wednesday we went to a ranch in Red Deer to ride horses or ride in a wagon, and Thursday we went swimming. In the afternoons it was rest time, free time to play with balls or cards or make crafts, not to mention eat (it was pretty much breakfast-snack-lunch-snack-supper-snack). There was also a chapel time everyday. The last night we had a campfire which was a blast - singing campfire songs. :) Staff stayed up later a few nights too to play games or talk.

Overall it was fun & I was glad I got to go. It was nice to have only 2 people to watch but also to not have to be with them constantly since there were lots of other staff around. I got lots of sleep (which was unexpected!) but still came back tired and then caught a cold right away too. :(

Birthday

I turned 23 almost 2 weeks ago and wanted to post some pictures of my party. My day started veeeery early with 2 phone calls that woke me up. I was happy to be able to talk to all of my family later in the day too, and received a lot of birthday wishes over the internet as well (Orkut, Facebook, random e-cards from my siblings....). It makes me feel so special when so many people remember me! :) Oh, and I loved the collage my sis made for me.

Besides the early calls, I was at church in the morning and then had a bunch of friends over in the evening for a BYOB barbecue. It was lots of fun and I felt blessed to be able to have them all come. I think we were 13 in all. I have been hanging out with most of them every weekend but for this party invited some other people as well who haven't been around as much. So it was good to chat and catch up with them. We had a big supper, played games, talked, laughed, and took pictures. I was blessed with some sweet and thoughtful gifts from dear friends (and some funny gifts). My sister had even left me a gift 5 weeks earlier since she wasn't going to be around! :) And the week before I got a massive cheesecake and visit from out-of-town friends, which was sweet of them.


Thanks, everyone! :)

hmmm

A friend said this the other night (he heard it somewhere):
"These days men are expected to be fierce AND sensitive: they're supposed to punch a hole in the wall and then write a poem about it!"

Funny... it made me think about my previous post on men.