![]() ![]() I loved showing Nate around camp and we enjoyed banana boating with the other adult guests, most of whom were our parents' ages. In addition to watching the kids, adult guests also get to participate in some of the camp fun, including parasailing, hot tubbing, rock climbing, banana boating and a slew of other camp activities. ![]() If you're there for the whole week you get to see the session progress as kids are introduced to Christ, loved by their leaders, and hopefully accept Christ as their Savior, all while enjoying the little piece of heaven which is camp. YoungLife has an Adult Guest program, where parents, friends, potential donors, or anyone interested in the way YL camp works can stay in a beautiful house at any of the camps and watch camp happen. In the morning, we packed up our tent in the rain, enjoyed the hot showers and then headed back to Castaway for the day. We met up with our friend Liz Fay, a former Champaign Younglife leader who was working as a volunteer Work Crew Boss for a month, to watch the evening's activity: the crazy obstacle course! Although we made it to YL camp, we actually had pitched our tent for the night at a nearby campground and slept through our first thunderstorm of the entire trip! He had been a leader for 6 years, but unfortunately never made it to camp so it was great for him to finally experience it. I really wanted to show Nate what YoungLife camp was all about. Theodore Roosevelt National Park - Badlandsīy lunch time, we were on the road again, this time driving all the way to Castaway, a YoungLife camp in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota where I have led as a leader twice. It was the cabin that he had built and lived in during his time as a rancher in the 1880's. Imagine that!īefore we left the park and continued on our way, we stopped at the visitor center and went on a ranger tour of the Theodore Roosevelt's Maltese Cross Cabin. Believe it or not, there's lots of interesting stuff that you don't get in your high school history class. We listened to the ranger talk about Teddy Roosevelt and his time ranching on this land. Unlike some of the other national parks we'd been to where only some people go to the ranger talks, it seemed like the whole camp came out for the program. With relatively not that much to see in TRNP(coming from Glacier as we did), except scrub trees and ground hogs(and wild horses), we made camp and ate dinner while we waited to head to the ranger program. Some highlights were the mosquitos and spiders attacking us on the island, jumping off the rope swing, Jason catching his first fish and celebrating our 2nd anniversary! Nate's Dad and Cindy arrived the next afternoon and we all spent the weekend fishing, boating, water skiing, tubing, playing games, and enjoying the beautiful Wisconsin sunsets. ![]() Nate's Uncle Paul, Aunt Pam and cousins, Mandy, Nicki and Nat arrived in the evening with his sister Renee and Jason (who was her boyfriend at the time and is now her fiance) arriving soon after. We had the evening to ourselves and celebrated our 2nd Anniversary early at a supper club. On Thursday morning after another breakfast and some more chatting with Aunt Denise, we packed up and headed towards Minocqua, Wisconsin for a long weekend with Nate's family at their grandparent's cabin. Croix River Trip - Wish we had a photo with Rick & Denise! Again we lucked out with a gorgeous day, although it may have been a little hot we still made the best of it. ![]() On Wednesday, Uncle Rick took the day off work and after enjoying yummy breakfast on their patio, we headed to downtown Stillwater for lunch and spent the afternoon on an old paddle boat on the St. ![]()
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