Sunday, July 08, 2007

Festive Fourth

There were lots of fun things going on this past week. Patrick's girlfriend Sarah came in from Texas to surprise him on Tuesday. On the Fourth of July, I worked from 6:00-10:00am, which included running the showers, showing the DVD of "Man on Fire," and eating breakfast at the Guest House. In the evening, we had a cookout and then went to watch the fireworks at the Campus. Strangely enough, we were the only people I saw who went to a homeless shelter to watch fireworks. We enjoyed our visit with the guys in the DTC treatment and VA residential programs.



Friday, the entire Campus community, including staff, participants, and volunteers, joined to have our annual picnic and carnival. A group from the Catholic Heart Workcamp had been with us all week, and this event was the culmination of their experience. We enjoyed food, live music, and games in the parking lot.



Jonathan, Dale, Eric and RITI volunteer Al enjoy themselves.



Ray's cotton candy matched his beard pretty well.


The ice cream sandwiches were leftovers from the Second Pres. dedication Sunday.




Our newest staff member, Wendy, was a pro at cotton candy making.

The band was from Woodmont Hills Church of Christ. It was a tad ironic, since the Church of Christ does not believe in using instrumental music in worship.


The alley became a playground, if only for a few hours.











3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wednesday and Friday were your ONLY highlights of last week? I thought that Saturday was a special day too! And Thursday was rather significant.

Anonymous said...

Fourth of July was pretty special around here, too. I painted a bathroom and Ray went to work after a storm. It looks like the fireworks were amazing and your carnival fun. Running the cotton candy machine can be sticky business!

Ally said...

The snow cones and cotton candy look delicious! Glad you had such a nice 4th of July.