This is breakfast this morning. Yum. Today started out hot - the kind of heat and humidity that makes you sweat just standing still. The kids were up early this morning, like 7AM. This happens just about every year on the second ful day of camp, and I don't really get it. The leaders grabbed breakfast this morning at 7:45 and then had a meeting where we recap what's going on during the day and deal with any issues at hand. We then headed over to the morning session, which started with some great worship and then the speakres. It's fun to watch Jason Raitz do his thing. Any man who can hold a group of 150 Middle School kids mesmerized for an hour has what it takes in my book. After the session, we had our team games. The kids are a part of one of 16 teams, which compete in 30 minute games each morning. They're dumb games for the most part - as fun as the leaders make them.

After lunch, we had our first Buck Wild session, a name that's become legend and a mockery more than anything, after the late, great Ken Buck. We had a 100 yard slip and slide, going down a huge hill. This concept started 9 years ago and has grown and been perfected every year since. We have baby shampoo and sprinklers every few feet, lubricating the thing. You get a running start, and slide down the hill. As you can see from the pictures, sleep and bleed might more appropriate, if you end up sliding off the end into the grass below.

After Buck Wild, a bunch of us decided it'd be nice to go canoing. When you're hot and sweaty, what sounds better? 72 of headed out. As we got the last of the boats in the water, the canoe guy informed us that we probably shouldn't "Dilly Dally" because a storm was heading this way. I'm pretty sure he meant hurricane. Jim Jeffrey and I were canoing up with the Kyaks and most of my kids at the front of pack. About half way in it started with a torrential downpour, and then towards the end it was lightning. We were close enough to the end and far away enough from the lightning that we can kept going. The two groups behind us pulled off to keep from getting electrocuted. Smart move. We were drenched when we got back to the canoe livery and waited for the other groups to get picked up. We had a buss full of soaking wet kids, who had great stories to tell by the time they'd got back:



This afternoon, we had our afternoon "Digging Deeper" sessions, taught by differnt Youth Pastors. The kids can choose sessions covering any number of real world, applicable things like: Friends in Crissis, Connecting with God, Loneliness, Music and one called "Take the Fish off your car!" Good stuff.

Between dinner and our next session, I took the middle school guys on a Walmart run. It's tradition. Middle School gets to go first because they always seemed to get pimped in everything else, and it's cool to make them first in things, plus they're my favorite. Sorry High Schoolers. We headed up there and the guys bought lots of stuff they don't need: Red Bull, Candy, Strobe Lights, Poker Chips - you name it. Before the guys went in, I told them to make sure they were on time. Unfortunately, they weren't. They did two-pushups in the parking lot for each minute they were late. The girls went after the session tonight, but probably bought more more intelligent stuff.

Only one small slip tonight.... I was doing announcements following a clip from Anchorman with Will Farrell's character, Ron Burgandy. After the clip, I announced "I love Ron Jeremy". Ummmm... I didn't mean to say that. I didn't realize it until afterwards when Shinn kindly filled me in.

Speakers in the session again were great. We're hanging out tonight in my room playing poker (chips, no money) and talking.

You can see the rest of the pictures for Day 2 here.