Some of the highlights for him were: playing night games (including ninja warfare and gold rush), going down a 200-foot downhill slip-n-slide, rock-climbing, doing the teambuilding exercises, eating a lot of chicken in the dining hall, winning cabin clean-up and several games/contests, and playing a lot of sports (archery, dodgeball, soccer, basketball, swimming, etc.). It sounds like they were very busy all the time, even in the heat.
We weren't able to get a lot of pictures of the week, but here are a few low-quality ones....
His tribe and counselors:
Doing one of the team-building challenges:
Playing Gaga-ball (Strider's the one on the right):
Cousin Nate climbing:
One cool thing we found out at the end was that one of Strider's cabin-mates was the son of one of Pete's fellow counselors and friends from 20 years ago! Pete and Brandon had a fun reunion on the pick-up day.
It was weird for me to not have contact with Strider all week-- to not be able to call and remind him to wash his hands before dinner, or to try and be friendly to that lonely-looking kid reading his book on his bunk when we left.... but I prayed that the Holy Spirit would be the voice he listened to. (He'd certainly have better advice, anyway!)
In the long car ride home at the end of the week, we got to hear all kinds of tales of his adventures. Some of them made us smile as we realized that many Ligonier traditions have been around since we were there years ago. And some of the tales just about put this control-freak mother over the edge.... like hearing about how his bedding got wet from a storm, on Monday, and was still wet!
But I know it was extremely good for him to have the freedom to experience all those things with other boys and authority figures... and it was good for me to learn to let go, too!
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