Visitor Sunday

There's nothing like a mama-hug. ~Adabella Radici

I was so excited to see Ty yesterday!!! It killed me not to rush up and love on him in front of all his friends. I didn't want to embarrass him. Brian later told me he got to hug Ty and when Brian's parents came (Unbeknownst to any of us) Ty greeted them with hugs. Ok, that's it - I went and got mine and then some more.

It was a great day, weather was beautiful, a lot of food, planned activities, etc... I have never seen so much fried chicken in my life!!! We were supposed to bring an entree and depending on your last name a side dish, salad/fruit, or dessert. There must have been 600 chickens! When we got there we visited around the campsite. I'll have you to know, Tyler and Skyler are getting along very well. Although Skyler doesn't keep all his belongs on his own side. (I told Ty to be patience since this was his first time.) We had lunch, it was amazing to see these campers put away the food they did. I did hear the food was poor. Someone commented, "How do you mess up corn!?" After lunch we headed to The Point, a rocky bluff for the boys to meditate. We got back in time to see the boat races between the troops. The boats were made out of - get this - cardboard, trash bags, duck tape and air. Our troop won for the second year in a row - AWESOME BOYS! After that, we went to the fire circle area and watched the boys perform the dance of joy. It was a really cool dance - but there was a sense of oddness watching these 14-15 year old boys dance in only loin clothes (& shorts) - then came the fancy dancers in all their Indian gear. The boys had put a lot of time effort and money into their costumes. They were very entertaining. Soon after the show it was time to leave... ALREADY? : (

Tyler had called us on Friday night w/o leaving a message of WHY he was calling. (putting us into tailspin) We were feverishly trying to get a hold of him. He finally called back and said he got a sunburn (sun screen WAS packed) and wanted to come home on Sunday as Robert wasn't being very nice. Well, as we were getting ready to leave - Ty and Robert has a little spat and Ty picked his chair up and went and sat behind his tent looking out into the lake crying. I think it was more so that he didn't want us to go. It was hard leaving him!!! We talked and he stood up and let me hug him for the longest!!! We dried his eyes and he was ok. Skyler was crying too, I think a lot of the boys were feeling it but not many showing it. I made Ty a deal - I told him I would come get him on Saturday morning. That was before I knew I needed to be there at 9am. 2 hours to get down there... yea - leaving at 7am! Holy moly!

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