Sunday, June 22, 2008

The kids are coming off an especially busy week. Monday through Friday was our church's VBS and they also had a "Kids Quest" day camp thing at preschool. Space Camp was the theme. The space part of it was basically making space-oriented crafts and pretending to be astronauts and such, mot really the NASA version. So they were going to Space Camp in the mornings, and VBS in the evenings, all week. I was driving one of the vans for VBS, but Beth wasn't working, so we went out to dinner a few times with Virgil and Sherri. We had Chinese more then anything. Beth and Sherri also went to a play at the Wagon Wheel (the Wizard of Oz) Wednesday so Virgil and I went and checked out the Train Shack in town after dinner. Saturday was Beth's and my anniversary and Alex's first chance to go to camp at Michiana Christian Service Camp (they call the day camp for the 5-year-olds "First Chance Camp"). A bunch of deacons were working at removing two of the large stained glass windows in the church afterwards and I helped; we accomplished in a couple hours with free labor what the best outside quote wanted $25,000 to do. The windows were easier to remove than we were expecting; maybe we should take more down. Anyway, afterwards Beth, Missy, and I went to Fort Wayne to go to Toys R Us and then go look at some pop-up campers, but it started pouring buckets while we were eating lunch, so we wound up only looking at a couple (which we decided later were out of our price range) before packing it in and heading home again. I was worried that Alex would be getting rained on all day at camp, but when we picked him up (he was sleeping in the van when it came back) we found out it hadn't rained up there hardly at all. He had a great time.