Day 2...Making You All Into Dancers

Good morning! As I'm sitting here to write this I am realizing that the blogs for this week are probably going to all start pretty much the same. They are going to go a little something like this: MAN, was yesterday awesome!!! I just don't know what else I would write, so I hope you don't get sick of reading it:) Day 2 was jam-packed, but in a good way. Lost Canyon and the assign team has been so great about scheduling the day in a way that makes it much easier for us to get more sleep and just tackle the day head on. Yesterday we woke up and had a wonderful breakfast and then waited for them to give out some "wacko" awards. We haven't gotten any yet, but I have a feeling they will be coming soon! Then it was on to club. Can you believe it? Club in the morning! What a great change of pace. It is so much easier for us to all stay alert with club being in the morning instead of at night after a long day outside.

Trying to keep up with some crazy hands song...it was pretty hard!

After club is was time for a dance team bootcamp (the theme this week is that they are trying to make us all into superstar dancers)! There were a bunch of stations that we went to in our team uniforms. It was a blast...my personal favorite was the soccer game with a HUGE ball.

The girls being just perfect

The boys showing some muscle

Alison and Abbie rounding the bases in kickball

Molly playing soccer with that big old ball

Alison making friends with one of the characters of the week

Van and Brett hanging out

Alright, we need to scoot off to breakfast, but I have many more pictures to post. The guys had their turn on the zipline yesterday and they all did awesome! The zipline is probably 5 or 6 times longer than the one at Castaway so it was a new challenge for all of them. Hope you are all well, have a great day!!

Tasha

Welcome to Arizona, where it's HOT HOT HOT!!!

Hello from beautiful Williams, Arizona!

Wow was yesterday awesome. We took off from the airport in Minneapolis right on time and landed in Phoenix after about 3 hours. As we were landing the pilot said that it was 101 degrees! Crazy! We made our way up to Lost Canyon camp, and after a quick stop at McDonald's and 7000 feet in elevation we made it only to be welcomed with a bang! There was a ton of people cheering and the music was going...in true Capernaum style, we had a dance party right there...I could tell instantly that this is going to be one of the best weeks of our kids' lives!

The view of camp from where we got off the bus...we have it rough this week hey??

You can see that striped bag looking thing in the middle...that would be the blob! None of the kids have tried it yet but when they do I will be right there with video! These guys are like kids in a candy shop, it's great!

After the dance party they announced that there was free ice cream for everyone, so we obviously had to go check it out!

We went to check out our cabins...they are SO nice! The middle one is where the guys are staying all week

The girls hanging out watching the boys play some yard games

Finally it was time for dinner...we were all getting pretty hungry at this point after a long day of traveling (which everyone handled like champs I must add:). The dining hall here is beautiful as well...it's so cool to see a different camp, though I must admit it does feel a litle weird.

Again, in typical Young Life fashion, the spread was D-Licious!

We feasted on lasagna, salad (and great ranch dressing of course), awesome bread and...THE BIG COOKIE!!! Alright, so it wasn't a full blown big cookie, but it was pretty close. For all of you readers that have had kids go to Castaway you might know that the big cookie is the dessert highlight of the week...it was pretty sweet to get it on the first night:)

After that we headed to yet another mini dance party and then off to club. The speaker here seems great and I think everyone is going to love learning from her. Of course there was some awesome worship and EVERYONE was dancing like crazy. Here is one of the more tender moments...I think it's safe to say that Brandon and Tom are getting along just great:)

I couldn't believe that our whole group was still going strong after that extremely full day of travel. So that's about it for day one. It's just about time to start day two and get the kids up and moving! We'll update soon!

Tasha