Family Camp and other stuff

Well, I promised bloggage, and here it is.

First of all, Family Camp was awesome! The focus was on water and Living Water and getting out of the boat to walk on the water with Jesus. Let me just say that events during the week kind of pushed me out of my boat of silence. I was invited to play for morning worship (a lady just learning to play had her violin there for me to use), during the talent show Dad couldn't be there so Kevin and I had to do the hittite Finger Magic all by ourselves, and this led me to actually share at campfire Friday night. That's what's so awesome about camp: you feel loved and encouraged and stretched at the same time. We did other things during the week too. No, I didn't climb Baldy this year. In my defense, it was really hot and I refuse to go up there without my dad. I don't trust anyone else to wait for me. Anyways, on our afternoon off we went to Bear Country. I can't believe I had never been there before. Let me just say, baby bears are about the cutest little things ever! And the big ones are just plain cool. We have so many pictures it's not even funny. Oh, and my mom pulled a muscle in her leg before we went. So, since we were staying all the way up in cabin 5, we were allowed the use of a golf cart for the week. I think my mom didn't feel quite safe with me driving, but I thought it was a great deal of fun. oh, and the last night there I learned an awesome new game. It's called *Wa!* I may have to teach you guys to play, though I warn you in advance, it's loud. In fact, one lady said we woke up her cabin and they thought someone was being attacked by dogs. Personally, I think it wounded a lot more like a bad kung fu movie than dogs, but whatever. So that's the short version of camp.

Let's see, I am very excited for Marc and Carrie's wedding tomorrow. I managed to find myself a dress on sale for $12 that actually looks good on me, so I'm all set. I actually found the shoes to go with it (yes, Jesse, I bought more shoes) out in Rapid City. The saleslady said I had nice legs, which was weird. But then I proved her wrong by skinning my shin on a rock two days later. I'm hoping it's healed enough by now that my mom won't make me wear nylons. I have a serious dislike for the things, as you probably realized if you ever read my essay last fall. Anyways, happiness will ensue tomorrow.

Work continues. It's not especially good or bad, it just happens.

Annie Get Your Gun opened tonight. Mon and I went to dress rehearsal last night and it looks really good. We're going on Sunday afternoon with Grandma June. It's also playing next weekend. Apparently they decided 8 performances would be a good idea. I think my dad has always been Sitting Bull. He's fully in character on stage, but I've seen that character around the house many times before. I hope he does community theater again next year, he really seems to be enjoying it.

The only other thing I've been doing lately is watching episodes of Firefly. It's a sci-fi that apparently only had one season, because the entire series is 14 episodes. I managed to get through 9 hour-long episodes in the first two days. I just really love the characters. It's a space show, but it's more realistic than any I've seen before. There are no aliens, just humans spread out to the far corners of the galaxy. And just because we can fly through space doesn't mean everything is clean. Medicine involves stitches, not lasers. The whole show is kind of like a space western. The main characters are a group of smugglers. Well, they occasionally take legitimate jobs, but basically they're criminals. Except for the preacher they picked up in the first episode. And then there's the doctor who would be the respectable one except that he broke his sister out of a government facility because they were messing with her brain. It's a lot of fun and I intend to finish it this weekend. I suppose that would be good, since I have to give the DVD's back to Amanda before we go back to school...

Anyways, I think that's about all I have to catch you all up on. It's almost time for back to school. So I guess I'll see you soon.

Kim