Work?

The blog a week ago was titled Work & Play. That is very true of this past week, also. During our work hours, the men began to re-build the boys' bathrooms, continued to do repairs to other cabins, and spraying preservative on the outside of the cabins. Even today, 2-3 of the men, cut down a couple of very dead trees here in the RV encampment. The women painted and cleaned cabins and finished some of the work that they had been doing in the kitchen.

Play consisted of fun social when the RVICS group was invited to enjoy a pot luck social with the "community" that surrounds the lake. For Bible study we were invited into the home of a couple that lives on the lake and he led the study. He is a retired school principle and they make their home here 5 months of the year. For our Friday tour, we traveled to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, for a tour of the locks. It was another picture perfect day and freightors were in abundance! They are fun to watch when you are from a land locked area. Since we are "camping" one night we brought out the hot dogs, chips, marshmellows, and had a real for sure cook out. It was pretty cool but the fire did keep us warm.

As we close week number 2 here at Hiawatha Youth Camp, we are feeling very much at home and are meeting the members of the community that lives here that I referenced above. Hiawatha Youth Camp is a part of the Piatt Lake Bible Conference Association. Piatt Lake is surrounded by cottages that are built on leased land from the Association. They have to be Christians to live here (and prove it) as they want the atmosphere here to be different than the world. They are a great group of people. We have started riding our bicycles around the lake (4 miles) and some now call us by name and all wave. Also, we are definitely "out in the middle of no where" BUT there is one family from Upland that we know and visited with this week plus there is a connection to 2 other people that we know from Hartford City/Upland!! Most are not natives of this area and do go south in the winter time.

We are having a great time here---can you tell. We feel that we are benefiting the camp with our work and are having a good time doing it. By the way, the leaves are showing more and more color daily.