Another Summer at the Lord's Boot Camp

Well Micah and I suffered through another 3 wks of sweating & getting devoured by mosquitos at the Lord's Boot Camp, Teen Missions base in FL. Unfortunatly this year Ryan was not able to join us, due to his recent job change. Micah and I had a great time volunteering with the Munchkin Missions. This year I had the opportunity to work exclusively with the "baby" Munchkins (ages 1-4 yrs). Micah had his work cut out for him, since the class was comprised of 5 GIRLS!!! He had a hard time adjusting to their desire to play house or have tea parties...but he was able to find the dinosours and cars in the toy box & was quite happy. One of the highlights of our trip was having the opportunity to see off 6 of "our kids" on various trips. We had 3 kids from Mariposa, 2 from Portland and one from our old church in Colorado all go on a team this summer. Micah became quite the fixure around boot camp this year. He stood out because he refused to ride in his stroller & ran EVERYWHERE around the property. The kids were impressed that inspite of the heat & humidity he always seemed happy to be running everywhere (although he usually was running to the pool...so he may have had some incentive :-)

The girls in Munchkin Missions


Everyday the girls would dance around to a CD called "Dora's Dance Party"


Micah quickly discovered that instead of dancing around he could dress up like a superhero instead




As part of the boot camp program the kids are judged upon how clean they keep their tent/eating site. If they are the messiest they have to kiss the pig...which Micah was quite facinated with.



Some of the kids we sent off....

Amanda (from Mariposa) to Greece




Jessica from Wyoming (formally from our church in Colorado) to Malawi


Eliudi from Mariposa to Madagascar