Friday, September 19, 2008

Ward Activity

Tonight we went to the our first "official" activity at our church. They were camping. Mac was supposed to work on Saturday so we just planned to go to the evening activities. It started around noon with dinner being at 6:30. When Mac got home we headed to the camp grounds (about 30min away). It took a little over an hour to get there because the sign for the actual road and camp site was 2in by 10in. Our GPS said "you have arrived" but when we looked around we didn't see anything so we kept driving (getting a little lost). Eventually we circled around and found it. It is a narrow single lane road to the campsite with an 100 ft drop off on one side and the hill on the other and no shoulder. I was just a little nervous as I was the one driving trying not to look down.

We did make it in time for dinner, only being 45min late but people were still arriving. (There were more people there then I have ever seen at a ward activity- even the Christmas Party) I took Parker and Mackenzee while Mac parked the car. I got their hot dog buns and we headed out to the grill. As I opened the door I noticed 2 gigantic dogs (they were bigger then Mackenzee - kind of like overgrown police dogs) I was about to warn Mackenzee but it was too late. She screamed, threw her plate in the air- along with the bun, and ran inside thus causeing Parker to do the same. It took a few minutes to calm them down to let them know I was going to go out and they could stay inside. Mac came in and we got everyone fed.

Now it was time for some SMOES (s'mores) and tallent show. This meant we had to go outside. Parker refused to go out unless someone was holding him. We convinced Mackenzee to be brave and just look at me and hold my hand. There was a cute mosaic stepstone path to the fire pit. Mackenzee asked me who had died and why we were allowed to walk on these ones. I guess it is from visiting all the cemataries this summer :). Eliza loved the s'mores. She ate 2! Everytime the dogs walked by the kids freaked. It was kind of funny after a while.

The tallent show was cute. Several elementry school age children and younger got up and sang primary songs or told jokes. A few even did skits. There were a couple of adult acts too. One being Mac. He got up and sang "A UTAH man am I" (U of Utah song) because there are so many BYU grad/ fans in the ward. My favorite act of the night was rockin out to Tom Petty's Free Fallin on an accordian. It was great! The guy that played the accordian was pretty good too.

There were so many people camping we wished we could have stayed. Next year we will totally stay. Mac will make sure he is not working that weekend. Mackenzee and Parker were a little bummed we were not camping but got excited when we told them we would be back. It was nice to get to know some more people in the ward.

4 comments:

Amber Horspool said...

how fun! sounds like you guys are in an awesome ward. i love ward camp outs!

Tippidy said...

eliza is so funny! i miss you guys so much, its going to be weird to go to disneyland tomorrow without you :( im missing my ride buddy!

Emily S said...

Sounds like a lot of fun!
By the way, that picture of Mackenzee, is so cute.
She's a little beauty :)

Ruth said...

Tell Mac, "Yay for Utah!" Anybody but BYU!