Friday Night

What a great day! First we packed up at the camp and headed out on the bus to the Christ statue.  We took a long train ride way up to the top of the mountain where the view was incredible and we took lots of photos. We even saw a monkey. After riding back down on the train, we drove to an all-you-can-eat Brazilian BBQ where we absolutly stuffed ourselves on beef, chicken hearts, capybara, chicken, sausage, fried bananas, french fries, and all sorts of other healthy food. And we finished off with an amazing marshmellowy custard, yummy thing.

Then we headed to the beach for a few minutes and then went off to our host homes for the weekend.  We´ll meet back up tomorrow night at one of the churches for a pre-camp celebration and some music and testimonies. Everyone´s got different things planned with their host families over the weekend, so there will be lots of stories to share.

Thanks for all your continued prayers and encouraging comments. 

Thursday Recap

We are about to eat dinner here at the camp for the last time until Monday...Beans and rice...yeah!  Actually the food here is great.  Last night we were surprised with a delivery of the chocolate pizza we've been hearing so much about.  It definitely needs to be added to the menus of American pizza places.  We spent the day today prepping some more for various camp things, getting the band ready (learning songs in Portuguese) and spiritually preparing as well.  Our times of worship together have been great and we're looking forward to next week. 

Tomorrow we'll head back into Rio, visit the famous Christ statue, the beach and then hit an all-you-can-eat Brazillian BBQ for dinner. Then it's off to our host homes for the weekend.  We'll meet up a few times over the weekend for church, etc.

Everyone is doing great! Thanks for all the prayers and the encouraging comments!

Sorry, still not many pics, but we did figure out internet (very slow) at the camp, so we'll hopefully be able to do some more frequent/longer posts.

Preparing for Camp

Today has been great.  We're spending time getting to know the Brazilian leaders and preparing spiritually.  We're going over English lessons, worship, and our different classes.  The camp is large and beautiful.  There are donkeys, ostriches, ducks, and geese right at the camp.  The pool has a waterslide and we've had fun using it.    We've even had warm showers!  (Quite a change from last year.)  We haven't been able to post pictures yet, but hope to when we get back to town. 

Safely at the Camp- 40 out of 40 bags arrived!

We have landed safely at the camp and are settled in. All 40 pieces of luggage made it!  (A lot better than 13 out of 31 last year in Costa Rica!) We´ll lay low today and begin prepping tomorrow.  The weather is great and everyone´s enjoying the pool. We hope to be able to post some pics soon, but we´re getting the whole internet thing figured out. Everyone is doing great!

Landed in Miami! A few hours on the ground and then the LONG flight.

We are at the gate at SFO and ready to board!

Counting Down...

Just a few days to go until we leave...this is just SOME of the stuff we've got to take.  Be praying that we don't forget anything important during our packing meeting at 3:00 on Sunday.