This week was mostly about VBS. Beth and I volunteered to lead a kids’ group again, and we had a group of rising 3rd graders this year. We had between 4 and 8 each day, and unlike past years we didn’t have any that were challenges to keep under control. About half of them were kids from our life group, actually. Mostly the same format we’re used to for VBS, with songs and motions and verses and lessons and games and crafts. The theme was “Build” based on Legos, teaching kids to ‘Build your life on Jesus!’ Everyone really enjoyed it. Missy helped us out too a couple days. Dinner was usually a challenge as it usually is for VBS week, since we’re at church from 6:00 – 8:00. And softball also, since at least 3 players (including me) were working VBS and some others on vacation, the team got smoked 15-3.

Saturday, I rode. The 2MA group B was riding with the “Divide Ride” group which is a group going on a mountain bike trip to Wyoming I think, sometime next month. Anyway, they’re training for the ride by riding mountain bikes on the road. Even so, they were pretty fast. The B group got separated at the beginning of the ride though, with half of the group going the wrong way from the Trailhouse. The half I was in rode south to Laketon, at which point the Divide riders stopped at a little place called Bluebird Café for breakfast. Well, I didn’t really want to stop to eat in the middle of a ride, but I got a drink and was waiting for the others to get their orders when the other half of the B group came by. They weren’t stopping for food, so I bailed on the group I was with and joined the others. What I didn’t know was that the second B group was planning on stopping for food in North Manchester at McDonald’s. So we rode for maybe 5 miles and stopped again. I still didn’t want anything, so I just waited for them. We hit the road again after around 30 minutes or so. I got back home after riding almost 50 miles altogether and being gone for about 4½ hours.

In the evening on Saturday, Beth and I went to see the Wagon Wheel Theater production of "Kiss Me Kate." Beth had never seen it, I saw it back in my college years (like maybe 1989 or 90?). It was a good show. I told Beth she would probably recognize some of the songs from it (like "Too Darn Hot" or "Brush up your Shakespeare") and she did. It was a fun evening out.