Saturday, September 09, 2006
My Summer Vacation...
In honour of all the students who are probably writing about their summers as well, I humbly present (after more than a month away from my blog keyboard), "My Summer Vacation." Okay, well I didn't actually take any vacation this summer, but I did get out of town a bit. Here are the highlights and lowlights:
CREATIONFEST
At the end of July, thirteen of us went down to the Gorge in Washington to see some great bands and speakers. We tented. We went to the beach. We ate at Subway. We saw Jaki on the big screen during the David Crowder Band. We laughed a lot. We had to get the fuel pump repaired. We heard Audio Adrenaline's last performance. We used Honey Buckets. We bought CDs. We ran out of gas. We said, "Hey, how you doin'?" a lot. We ate chicken caesar wraps. We moshed (well, some of us). We bonded. It rocked.
KIDS CAMP
This really should be a post of it's own, it had so many, ahem, "memories." First of all, my camp nickname was Green Lantern, and I had all these Green Lantern pictures and posters on the walls and GL t-shirts to wear and stuff. First camper to walk into my cabin says, "Who's Green Lantern?" Good start, Dairn, ya rookie kids counsellor!
Now, I wouldn't say that half of the 8-10 year old boys in my cabin were fully evil, but let's just say that if they had a good angel and bad angel on each shoulder, the good one must have been bound and gagged and shoved in a closet all week. Lowlights include the kid who went around farting on all the other kids' pillows; the kid who slept in the nude (and the three other boys who thought that was cool and started to "go commando" too); the kid who was just a real jerk already at age 10 (and his proclivity for blaming everyone else for everything, even when I witnessed him beating on a younger kid); the amount of times I wiped pee off the toilet seat; the kid who was sick and barfed for a long time in the middle of the night; the lack of sleep; the attitudes of the twin boys on my team (it turned out better than it began, however); sunscreen leaking inside my suitcase; the cough at the end of the week... It's pretty much all par for the course at Kids Camp, though.
Highlights include the kids with awesome attitudes; watching our great leaders from Kingsway excel in blessing the terrific Kingsway kids; the fun times with my team (go Kung Fu Kings!); and seeing young lives grow over the course of the week.
To sum it all up, I heard those three little words from one of my boys at lunch time that simply made me shake my head and look to the sky... "I just diarrhea'd." It was commando boy, of course!
YOUTH CAMP
Okay, after the surreality of Kids Camp, I returned to the reality of teenagers and Youth Camp. This was my 13th year as a leader, so it's a very comfortable week for me (and it's always nicer to have my family in my cabin with me for a week instead of hellboy and his minions!). Great stuff happened in so many young peoples' lives - it made me really proud of our church and it's leaders. And proud of our teenagers who were listening to God's voice and responding with their lives. And no one whispered those three little words in my ear.
THE PNE
On Labour Day, as is our family tradition, we went to the Pacific National Exhibition and saw the Superdogs, went to the petting zoo, bought some floral gums (soap candies) which I'm eating as I type, watched Hi-5 perform, and got hosed on parking and food prices. Ahhh, there's nothing better to end the summer!
Hopefully I'll get back on track and blog a little more in the coming weeks. Life's just been so busy getting towed out of Creationfest, wiping toilet seats for 9 year olds, getting teenagers into their cabins at night, and taking my awesome kids to the fair.
Life doesn't get any better than this...
CREATIONFEST
At the end of July, thirteen of us went down to the Gorge in Washington to see some great bands and speakers. We tented. We went to the beach. We ate at Subway. We saw Jaki on the big screen during the David Crowder Band. We laughed a lot. We had to get the fuel pump repaired. We heard Audio Adrenaline's last performance. We used Honey Buckets. We bought CDs. We ran out of gas. We said, "Hey, how you doin'?" a lot. We ate chicken caesar wraps. We moshed (well, some of us). We bonded. It rocked.
KIDS CAMP
This really should be a post of it's own, it had so many, ahem, "memories." First of all, my camp nickname was Green Lantern, and I had all these Green Lantern pictures and posters on the walls and GL t-shirts to wear and stuff. First camper to walk into my cabin says, "Who's Green Lantern?" Good start, Dairn, ya rookie kids counsellor!
Now, I wouldn't say that half of the 8-10 year old boys in my cabin were fully evil, but let's just say that if they had a good angel and bad angel on each shoulder, the good one must have been bound and gagged and shoved in a closet all week. Lowlights include the kid who went around farting on all the other kids' pillows; the kid who slept in the nude (and the three other boys who thought that was cool and started to "go commando" too); the kid who was just a real jerk already at age 10 (and his proclivity for blaming everyone else for everything, even when I witnessed him beating on a younger kid); the amount of times I wiped pee off the toilet seat; the kid who was sick and barfed for a long time in the middle of the night; the lack of sleep; the attitudes of the twin boys on my team (it turned out better than it began, however); sunscreen leaking inside my suitcase; the cough at the end of the week... It's pretty much all par for the course at Kids Camp, though.
Highlights include the kids with awesome attitudes; watching our great leaders from Kingsway excel in blessing the terrific Kingsway kids; the fun times with my team (go Kung Fu Kings!); and seeing young lives grow over the course of the week.
To sum it all up, I heard those three little words from one of my boys at lunch time that simply made me shake my head and look to the sky... "I just diarrhea'd." It was commando boy, of course!
YOUTH CAMP
Okay, after the surreality of Kids Camp, I returned to the reality of teenagers and Youth Camp. This was my 13th year as a leader, so it's a very comfortable week for me (and it's always nicer to have my family in my cabin with me for a week instead of hellboy and his minions!). Great stuff happened in so many young peoples' lives - it made me really proud of our church and it's leaders. And proud of our teenagers who were listening to God's voice and responding with their lives. And no one whispered those three little words in my ear.
THE PNE
On Labour Day, as is our family tradition, we went to the Pacific National Exhibition and saw the Superdogs, went to the petting zoo, bought some floral gums (soap candies) which I'm eating as I type, watched Hi-5 perform, and got hosed on parking and food prices. Ahhh, there's nothing better to end the summer!
Hopefully I'll get back on track and blog a little more in the coming weeks. Life's just been so busy getting towed out of Creationfest, wiping toilet seats for 9 year olds, getting teenagers into their cabins at night, and taking my awesome kids to the fair.
Life doesn't get any better than this...
# posted by Dairn @ 9:22 PM 
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Hey dairn,
great to see youre back at the computer. Sounds like you had a full summer. I heard a rumor that you may be around out my way for some young adults stuff? I look forward to it.
great to see youre back at the computer. Sounds like you had a full summer. I heard a rumor that you may be around out my way for some young adults stuff? I look forward to it.
Soap candies!
lol
Haven't heard about them in 20 years or more! (Geez, I feel old suddenly...)
I know somebody at work who went to Creation Fest this year. Her name is Pam. Did you see her there?
Good to see you back online, dude!
lol
Haven't heard about them in 20 years or more! (Geez, I feel old suddenly...)
I know somebody at work who went to Creation Fest this year. Her name is Pam. Did you see her there?
Good to see you back online, dude!
Yeah Al, I saw Pam. She seems like a nice girl. Oh yeah, there were 25,000 others there I saw too...
:-P
:-P
Wow!
25,000?!?!
That's a LOT of Pams!
(Would it jog your memory any, if i said that she was female? remember her now?)
lol
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25,000?!?!
That's a LOT of Pams!
(Would it jog your memory any, if i said that she was female? remember her now?)
lol
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