Picnic time!

Today we had the picnic for all the campers and their families. Betsy and I spent all day in the kitchen with some wonderful helpers, Ruth, dominique and sergio. The youth got the church bright and early for the sports camp and today the sport was basketball. Everyone seemed to enjoy it. The temperature was much warmer today. Betsy and I headed off to the grocery store as soon as they opened this morning and did all of our shopping in less than an hour and a half! We we to Sobey's for the majority of the groceries and then back to the wonderful No Frills. We even made 25 cents by returning the Cart in the parking lot.. (someone had left their quarter in the basket we grabbed in the parkin lot so I locked it up and out popped a quarter! easy money i'd say!)

After camp today, Joe finally got the youth's t shirt's washed... you can imagine how badly this was needed! All the work at the matthew house was accomplished today. the siding looks great along with the new counter top, light, and range hood over the stove.

The menu for the picnic consisted of hamburgers, Hot dogs, pasta salad, veggie tray, baked beans, rice and beans ( made by dominique) and watermelon. For dessert, we had mini powdered doughnuts, brownies and cookies baked by sergio. The pasta salad was not such a hit, but tomorrow is left over friday and we will be using up all our left overs with the campers for lunch!

After eating the youth did the skit from today for the families and Ali-Kat explained briefly about the purpose of the week and the skits. After that Rosemary, Jim and Shirley thanked all of us for our hard work and our continued dedication to the Matthew house. Each of us received a Thank you card which hard a picture on the front with some of the campers or matthew house members. We each got a canadian water bottle full of candies with a "team canada" official olympic bracelet attached. Carlos' mom also thanked us for everything we did and gave us each a goody back stating that "it was not much but a token of their appreciation."

Rosemary had also prepared several games for the kids to play. They enjoyed 3 legged races, Sponge races and Fishing for Ducks in a swimming pool. Betsy, really enjoyed playing with the kids. They got a little carried away with the fishing for ducks game and she came in the kitchen soakin wet!

Everyone was so exhausted today! The heat has really taken it out of the youth each day, and today was especially long! Tomorrow will be a bitter sweet day I am sure. We are exciting for sports camp, but sad it is the last day!

I am doing my best to add as many photos as possible tonight!