If you didn't know already, my favorite holiday IS the FOURTH OF JULY! Barbecue, fireworks, pool time, and more fireworks are just a few wonderful things about this holiday/birthday celebration of our great nation! There is no better place to celebrate than right where I am at...KAMP. K-Kountry celebrates in the best possible ways and I have been blessed in being here for my last few summers of celebration. There is no way to justly describe the atmosphere that this day has at the kountryside, but I have a few pictures to try.
Everything and everyone is decorated for the Fourth of July. The kids are woken up with firecrackers and given bomb pops. Nothing else says Fourth of July better, right!?
The group of girls here are our kitchies and kooks! They are faithful to serve us day in and day out. Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. They our scrape our plates and do our dishes. This is my first year out of my six at kamp that I have not served a term in the kitchen. I am happy where I am, but love and appreciate the kitchies and kooks and all the hard work they do.
If you celebrate your birthday at kamp, you get to choose a counselor to throw into the pool. Bubby and America decided to throw all of guys leadership in the pool.
For breakfast we had chocolate chip pancake with strawberries and whipped cream on top. I just happened to unintentionally cut a small submarine out of my pancake...or maybe a small fish. When I was finished, I got even more whipped cream put on my plate. Kathryn and Jenn chuckled at being correct in assumption when I pulled my camera out to take a picture of my smiley face.
The guy in this first picture is one of our Kanakuk maitenance men, Greg. He faithfully serves us in the background each day as he repairs what we break and keeps kamp(and the pool) running.
Kelsey and Elise came for a visit! There is nothing that makes my heart feel more loved than when friends drive to Branson to see me, even if they do have others to see as well. Kelsey successfully crossed the red bridge for the first time ever, even though she did not like the crossing.
Any day that we have grilled meat at kamp, there is a 15 foot boundary around the grill. Today it was clearly marked for all to see. It made me chuckle! Usually you just get called out and escorted back away from the grill. They cooked our lunch, and the faithful cooks and kitchies did all the somewhat tedious work to get all those garnishes, as well as the other feasts ready for us today.
No Fourth is complete without a parade at K-Kountry. Celebrities show up, K-Kountry's Governor and First Lady make an appearance, and Santa obviously ends it. The kids slowly move into the parade path as they try to be the first one to the next piece of candy to be thrown.
One of my top favorite things about the Fourth, and life in general, is that we can buy objects, light them on fire, and they make a beautiful show in the sky for us(or just loud noises). Every kamp Fourth is ended with a firework show. K-1 and K-Kaua'i join us for a pretty spectacular show each year. Making it even more spectacular was the fact that none of the balls of fire headed towards the crowd this year.
Some high schoolers from Springfield K-Life came to serve at K-Kaua'i this week! It has been so fun to see them, since I haven't since last summer when I moved to KC.
It has been one long day, and since the fifth is still happening tomorrow, and I am done with my photo work for the night, I must head to my barn for to hit the hay. :)
Some things that weren't pictured are the FOB movie, National Treasure and our popcorn for the show, the amount of time that was spent in the water...a lot, and the zipline tickets that were taken from earning freedom tickets. Really, I don't know what I'll do when I am not working at kamp on the Fourth...I'll probably just come visit that day. It is the best day of the summer, and my favorite way to celebrate the Fourth.
How did you celebrate the Fourth?!
Char, even if we hadn't run into the Tidwells (which we did! Hooray!), seeing you would have been worth the trip. Love you!
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