Remember how days used to take forever?

I finally believe something my mother told me when I was a child. She would tell me, in the middle of a particularly "long" day for me that as you get older, time will go by more quickly. I never believed her, the days always seemed to crawl by...

Not so anymore. I can't believe how fast this winter/spring/summer has gone by. Since my last blog entry a lot of things have been going on at Camp Dixie. Here's a quick rap-up, I will be blogging about them in the near future (I sure hope to anyway!)

1. In February we had a NLOMA conference in quite possibly the coldest and most remote place in the United States (Northern North Dakota, 8 miles from the Canadian border.) At that conference we got many of the applications for the summer counselors.
2. We hired 14 staff members for this summer. We were hiring right up until staff training started on May 22.
3. Kim and I took a quick trip to Las Vegas to see a concert and the Grand Canyon (first time for me.) What fun!
   
4. Lifeguard Training with the Camp Dixie staff!
5. Summer Camp and Traveling VBS! This summer we had 248 campers (just slightly down from 254 last summer) in our on-site program. Praise God!
6. Costa Rica Servant Event. 14 people traveled to Costa Rica to help Camp Penuel serve inner city Costa Rican children at their site. It was a great trip!
7. We moved and re-designed the "Raging River" challenge course element. For the first time in a long time, campers were experiencing a new Raging River.
   
8. Celebration Lutheran Church from Tallahassee Florida came to Camp Dixie for a Servant Event and helped us build a horizontal climbing wall.
9. Summer camp ended. One of the greatest staff groups ever departed Camp Dixie and went back to their homes all across the country. You guys are missed!
10. Retreat season has begun!

Well, those are just a few of the things that have happened in the time since I last wrote a blog entry. Hopefully many ideas for future blogs can come out of this.