The Week the Siblings Came to camp

Week #9 

Teen Speaker: Morris Gleiser 

JBC Speaker: Mark Herbster/Big Bob 

Prayer Partner: Rachel Hicks 

Monday~

Usually on Monday's we have brunch for about an hour. It's usually some sort of sandwich with soup, lots of fruit, a salad bar, waffles, pancakes, bagels, and cereal. For some wonderful reason, this particular Monday, we had a parfait bar!!!!!! :D If you know me, I am a parfait-type of person. Greek yogurt, fruit, and granola will make my day 10x better! :) I knew that this was going to be a fantastic week!! :) 

My wonderful meal! (^_^) 

I was really hoping that Danny and Anna would get to camp before I had to be at work....but of course they didn't. While I was setting tables and preparing for dinner, Bro. Katterman walked in the dining hall. Apparently, Anna had forgotten her phone in his car! I had requested to serve Anna and Danny while they were here, so I knew I would just give it to her when she came in. I requested to serve David at the beginning of summer, and I still hadn't gotten him! I was a little annoyed because all the waitresses wanted to serve him (because he cleared fast and always bought them a gift) and many of them did serve him. When it was finally time for me to serve second shift, I saw that I got to serve Anna (and her cool counselor, Abbie Fant), Danny & Noah, Brooke Montgomery (Danny's sister counselor), AND David!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was definitely going to be a great week!! :)

First meal came around, and not only was David the table furthest away from the kitchen, but this was PIZZA night, which meant that everyone always ate sooooooo much!! Which means even more refills. All that to say, the first night, David thought I was a slow waitress (which I totally was not). After the meal, Connie asked me if I was enjoying my aisle, I told her that my brother called me slow. :P She told me that if he says anything again, she would move him. :) Of course she was kidding. :)

Tuesday~
Danny and Anna wanted to play volleyball in the afternoon, so of course I went to find them. I felt a little bad because I knew I should probably be spending time with my prayer cabin.

Love this kid! 

One of Anna's CITer's took our picture! We didn't end up playing because by the time I found them, I had to start heading back to work, and it was also extremely hot!

I have the best siblings! :) 

Wednesday~
At the beginning of every week, waitresses always worry about who their aisle buddy will be.  I was lucky to have Catie for the second time. We could almost read each other's minds and were always done really fast! Sometimes we could read each other's minds too much and ended up matching three times this week!!

Matching Aisle Buddies! 

Sometimes working in the outside snack shop can get boring...for example, if it's raining, or way too hot outside, no one even bothers to buy something. In those cases, we like to keep ourselves entertained. :) This evening, Emily made a chef's hat out of our empty nacho chip bag. :P

Emily, our nacho chip chef. 

After Fun Time, I went to give devotions to my prayer cabin and after I finished, my prayer partner, Rachel, told the girls the Vanessa Jenkins story!! I would tell you, but we would have to be at camp, or it won't be the same. :) Rachel and I clicked! She was sweet and funny, but also kind of quiet. Her brother was on my clearing aisle this week, so I would talk to him a few times about how Rachel was doing. His cabin was the Salty Dogs (that was David's first cabin when we came as campers). 

Thursday~

On Thursdays, all the churches meet for "family time". After that, the girls go on a hike. I got off work around 2, and met with the fam for a few minutes. The whole week, everyone kept getting David and Danny confused, and Anna and I confused too! It was pretty comical to watch people do a double glance when we were together. :)

I'm so glad they were able to come!! 

For every single meal, all the tables on my aisle would do a little cheer for me! They were the best! A few of them are: 1. "C-I-N-D-Y without you we would all die" 2. "C-I-N-D-Y you are as sweet as pie" 3. "C-I-N-D-Y your voice is like a lullaby" 4. "C-I-N-D-Y you're gonna get one lucky guy." and 5. "C-I-N-D-Y you don't even have to try."
That night, I gave devotions at Abbie Fant's cabin...which was also Anna's cabin.

Friday~
Because Anna was staying an extra week, I requested a certain counselor for her, and Will requested one for Charlotte...because the whole point of them coming next week was that they would room together. Anyway, I checked my mailbox-expecting to see a confirmation note, but my request was denied!!!! Not only were they not able to room together, but I did not even know who their counselor would be! :( So I figured we would all find out on Monday.

I only worked Tuesday, Wednesday, and  Friday night this week. Because I worked on Friday night, I wasn't able to go to the fireside service. Afterwards, I chilled in the staff lounge and talked to other OP staff who weren't able to go to the service either.
When the service was over, I took a picture with these cool siblings. Their parents work on staff and the two oldest did CIT with David and Anna. There are six kids total. I think it would be funny/neat if our siblings get to do CIT with all of them! I really enjoyed getting to know them (the three eldest work in the kitchen, and Matthew is on cleanup).

Matthew (14), Joshua (18), Caleb (16), Caitlyn (19), and me :) 

After that, I went back to my room and then went to my prayer cabin and heard their testimonies/devotions. Then, I stopped by Anna's cabin for a little while. :)
It was a great week....the realization that summer was ending soon, started to hit me.......