Fact: It is possible to get sunburned in Alaska

Hey y'all!! We have been so incredibly blessed these past couple days to be able to relax and enjoy God's wonderful creation while preparing our hearts and minds for the week to come. Here's a little insight into our epic adventures....

• Awesome nature walk and tour of the entire camp. We rode along pulled by a tractor and glided across a gorgeous river in a "trolley" on a pulley line. (We tried to leave Tommy and Stevie suspended over the river...failure unfortunately)
• Stevie, our Alaskan "tour guide", enlightened us with a plethora of "facts". We learned that the water from the Berring Sea destorys ones soul and that Bambi was actually filmed in a field at Echo Ranch. (Oh, and the sky is blue cause it's God's favorite color)
• Swimming in the actually somewhat nice Alaskan water. Tommy bellyflopped around five times just to get the perfect picture.
• Worship on the beach at sunset at 11:00!!!! We sang around the camp fire and looked for huge flying saucers to validate Tommy's "real life" childhood experience.
• Canoeing while getting attacked by ginormous horseflies with green and black striped eyes. It was worth it all.
• Playing sand volleyball barefoot in shorts and t-shirts. Seven girls were barely defeated by two boys...(we actually just let them win)
• After watching all four seasons of Deadliest Catch in one week, Tommy along with most of the team fufilled his lifelong dream of crabfishing. After learning the proper way to de-shell (?) them we then ate them for dinner. Yum!!
• Our great teambuilding kickball tournament surrounded by horses grazing in the field lasted until nine o'clock with daylight to spare.

Tomorrow the real work begins and we are all so excited for the arrival of all the kids. Jacova, Hannah, Kelsey, Lauren, Lacey, Tyler and Josh will all be serving as junior counselors. We will start to lead chapels and games and are looking forward to spending time with all the kids. Thanks again for all your continued support and prayers. And in closing we have one question...how many words can you think of that start with the letter u? Keegan can't think of any... :)

Lacey, Jacova, Kelsey and Carol...over and out