HWYC DAY 7

FROM SARAH:


<<As mentioned at the end of my last email – on our last day of camp the kids had trouble settling down for sleeping.  The girls finally settled into their beds around 2:45 am (and we were going to get up at 5 am).  That last night the kids had been at Jenny and Ethan Coy’s home.  


There they had conned Jenny and Fara into telling their “falling in love” stories.  Jenny and Ethan have been married 15+ years, while Fara and Eric were just getting together when we came down in 2007.  (BTW, Fara and Eric have an 11 mo old completely red haired girl-hair and eyebrows.)  So after the love stories were told and after it approached midnight, the boys are girls all convened to the tabernacle where I was – the girls were staying upstairs while the boys are in another building.  There were all these emotional goodbyes, and no one wanted to leave.  I had to get pretty stern to make the boys leave for their rooms.  


Then, it was another matter to get the girls showering and quietly going to bed.  See, upstairs and downstairs in the Headwaters tabernacle is several very older people’s apartments.  I was very worried that we were going to be bothersome to these people.  Every time I thought I had the girls going to their various rooms and settling in, I’d find them convened in some corner or bathroom, talking and giggling again.  See, the Whitestone kids and our kids were finally hitting it off and getting along; now, they didn’t want to separate from each other.  It was simply ridiculous.  Finally, peace descended.

Whitestone stayed in the area yesterday because they were going to the Blueberry sing along. 

The girls were up before 5 am, but we had to get all the guys up when we finally realized that they weren’t getting up on their own.  Packing our “box” did not go so well.  Seth and Kathryn usually get on top of the van to screw and unscrew the lid and to hand down or pull up the luggage while tall folks like Melissa and Cody and Tom handed up the luggage.  Our lid wasn’t on right so Thomas made us take the lid off and rearrange.  We finally pulled out of Headwaters at 6:30 am. 

The kids slept well for most of the day, catching up for their very busy days at camp. 

At camp, Seth Jepsen, Kevin Jepsen, Seth Rotundi, Russell Stendal, and Caleb Guillard really hit it off famously.  They’re all 18 yrs old.  Oh, and I think Johnny Selveggio was in their group some too.  Johnny and Russell convinced these other boys that v-neck t-shirts are cool, so they all found v-neck t-shirts and were wearing them.  It doesn’t sound like much, I know, but my Seth who loves yellow refused to wear this yellow v-neck t-shirt that he was given for graduation.  

Seth R and Russell were going to Whitehorse on the same day as we were so they took Seth and Kevin in their car, and they had to stop in Watson Lake to drop off Justin Bauman.  Because we had space in our car, Micaela Rotundi rode with us till Watson Lake. 

We found a pull out at Smith River.  We quickly made up sandwiches, and the kids ran with their lunch in hand to the nearby waterfall to eat. The next stop was Watson Lake.  We were able to greet Rick’s parents and use clean bathrooms before continuing on to Whitehorse.  The Troyers had planned to feed us some soup when we pulled in.  As we neared Whitehorse, some of the girls begged to go to the hot springs again.  Once at WH, we had an hour and a few minutes to get to the hot springs before they closed.  Thomas stayed at the WH house with some of the kids while I sacrificed myself (NOT!) to take the girls to the hot springs.  That hour of soaking was soooo well worth it. 

We ate supper when we returned; the others had barely left us any!  The kids stayed up playing games with Russell and Seth till the wee hours of the morning.  I crashed on the sofa so I could sorta hear them, but I was beyond staying awake.  Tom had long since fled to his room to sleep.  All during camp Thomas had to share a king sized bed with Jimmy Fant.  J 

At WH, the Troyers were totally gracious to us – feeding us two meals and letting us have the run of the place. 

I do want to mention that on the way from Headwaters to WH, Seth R with his carload of boys would start out behind us, but pretty soon, they’d whip around us.  This happened all day.  Finally, I asked them what they were doing.  Well, while we ate snacks in the car and stopped to eat sandwiches, they were stopping at little cafes to eat meals.  One of their last stops and then catch ups, they had bought bread and they got in front of us.  Then they started throwing pieces of bread madly out their windows.  Keep in mind that they were a car load of boys and we were a van full of girls save Tom and Cody.   

So, that was yesterday.  Sarah

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