How to Describe a Fun Day

Monday is Funday here at the Camp Rivercrest internship program. We usually get the morning off since we usually work at some point in time during the weekend, and then we do something "fun" in the afternoon. We were going to play lasertag this past Monday, but we decided to wait until more of the staff could join us so there wouldn't be just three of us. So instead we went to the movies. There wasn't anything in particular that I wanted to see in theaters, so I let Adam and Kristjun decide. They chose "Killer Elite". They were more excited to take me to my first action movie more than I was excited to go. It was an interesting concept and really in-depth, but I don't think I'll be going to any more action movies.

Yesterday was actually a work day. We started out with our regular Tuesday morning meeting. Then we all went on a search to find some teepees that were hidden somewhere unknown. We did find the teepees, but first we found a bunch of tents and camping gear we didn't know we had. We set up everything we could. We spread out the teepees, but they didn't have any poles, so we ordered some. Then we set up the "1-2 person" tents. We think it mean 1-2 CHILDREN, because they were only 3 by 4 ft. There were three of those tents, but we could only set one of them up because the others didn't have poles. Then we set up the 8 person tent. THEN we managed to cram six people into the 1-child tent while Adam was  ordering teepee poles so that we could surprise him when he got off the phone. That was a lot of fun.

Three of us finished the day cleaning up, while planning for something fun to do that night since Eli was going to spend the night. After work Shawna had made chicken and dumpling soup so we all ate that while hanging out on the golf cart. Later Eli and I went to WalMart so that he could get marshmallows and Coke (and I convinced him to get a 12-pack of Dr Pepper) for a campfire. The campfire was lots of fun, especially with me drinking 3 Dr Peppers and so many marshmallows that I forgot to count them. (Did I ever mention that Kristjun gave me a name for me on Dr Pepper? He calls me "Dr Pepper and Mrs Hyde".) After the Dr Peppiness took off, I started talking a lot and ended up mentioning something about Killer Bunnies, which piqued the interest of Kristjun and Eli. So after the campfire (and after Kristjun wrestled the box of Dr Pepper away from me), I got out Killer Bunnies and taught Eli, Kristjun, Chris, Mike, and Owen how to play. The game ended around 12:30 this morning.

This morning I got Mike and Eli to help me with organizing and setting up for the family movie night that will happen on Friday. First we took inventory of leftover snack shack food so I would know what we needed to buy (guess what kind of soda I had to put on the list?). We found the generator, found some canvas to use as the screen, stole the sound equipment from the dining hall, set up a screen on the baseball diamond and stored the av equipment in the bike shed. Then we had lunch, followed by moving stuff around for the groups this weekend (a college group, a junior high group, plus a bunch of youth groups on Paintball Sunday). Since then I've been putting final touches on the movie night and planning for student ministry tonight, where I'll get to lead the opening activity from now on. I also got my cell phone delivered and activated today; it's a really cool touch screen and by far the nicest phone I've ever had.

So, how to describe a fun day? It definitely wasn't this past Monday, at least not for me. Next Monday looks WAY more promising; I loved going to Idaho with Xtreme Praise because we always got to play laser tag at that-one-fun-center-that-always-changed-its-name, and I often dominated! Tonight should end the day on a "fun" note, and while I don't promise myself that I'll personally have fun on Friday because I'll have so much work to do, my goal is to make that as much fun as possible for the people attending! But I really have to say that yesterday was a wonderful description of a fun day. It was purposeful, and yet exciting. Even the part where we were just cleaning cabins was fun because we got to hang out with each other (and they discovered that I am actually allergic to the pink-colored bathroom cleaner, which is now referred to as "Pink Death"). In fact, I think the reason the day was so fun was because it was all about the community and just hanging out with each other, whether that meant talking at the meeting, cramming into a tent, riding the golf cart, trying to buy the cheapest marshmallows, sitting around the campfire, or murdering each other's bunnies. That's how I describe a fun day.