Camp day two 2018

I didn’t sleep a wink or more last night.
It is definitely a party campground with a seasonal crowd that abides in bedraggled trailers with poorly maintained additions.  The closest bathroom was way too far away, and the one with showers is so far away you have to DRIVE to it.

But – the morning air is always an awesome feeling and we were going to make the best of today.

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I actually very much enjoyed sitting down to cook and cooking over the fire this way.  We had pancakes and sausage.

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We had a family game of Bible Outburst.

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And headed for the Lockport Cave and Underground Boat Tour.

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Stewart didn’t get the memo that we were all going to be repping ButlerFilms today.  He’s only the director….  (we’d told him.)

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We had to wait for the 12:30 P.M. tour, so we poked around a bit first.

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We finally did the tour and it was decent.  I don’t rate it as a Do Not Miss like last year’s tour of Fort Niagara.

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I honestly don’t know what it was we were in.  Some old tunnels that the factory that had been there before had used to make its fire hydrants or something.

We rode a boat underground.  So that was a thing.

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We went back to Tom’s Diner for lunch.  We had a fabulous meal.  We DO highly recommend this place!

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Back to camp.  It was hot.  There were some table games and some lawn games and some time at the play ground.

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We had another meal over the fire and more desserts.

And I wore ear plugs when I went to bed!

Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to camp we go.

We started the day by a family viewing of the new Christopher Robin movie at 11:35 AM.  It was precious and I can’t wait to see it again.

We came home for lunch and to finish loading up the vans and off we went to a crumby little campground in Lockport.  I’d waited way too long to reserve a site anywhere and was limited by who had tent sites with electric. 

Live and Learn.

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We set up quickly.  Tabitha and Stewart are naturals.

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We ate some yummy food cooked in this foil packs that Marie and I made up the day before.  We would have had two cans of green beans but our stupid can opener was worthless.

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I got the short chair.

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There was one tent for mom, dad, and little girls.  Nigel is just visiting.

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And another tent for the Big Four.  (Hanny was visiting.)

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We had games and food and a campfire.

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And headed to bed around 10:30PM.

Matchy-matchy…

Katriel’s friend Maddie approached her as she arrived to church last week with a dress identical to the one she had on.  She had obtained two dresses from hand-me-down sources that matched.  She asked her mom if she could give one to Katriel so that they could be “matchy-matchy.”   Katriel was delighted by the idea and this week they got to make that happen.

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VBS at Pittsford Community Church ~ 2018

The boys started attending VBS in 2006, and Stewart started assisting in 2012.  Nigel started helping in 2014, me in 2015, Marie in 2016, and now Tab in 2018. 

Stewart has been a Bible teacher since the beginning, and Nigel, Marie and I have done different things each year.  This year Nigel assisted in leading group 4, Marie assisted Stewart in Bible, and Tab and I lead group 2.

The theme was Time Lab where we went back in time to see that God is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Here is a week in review.

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Hanny seeing the time lab.

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Nigel’s crew.

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My crew.

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