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Alright! So VBS is over. It was an extreemly busy week! I was a leader for Blue Group #2 and we had 10 kids between three of us, plus the other ten kids that were in the first blue group. It was a great experience though!

The week before was really busy after Canada Day with preparations for VBS. We had to paint another banner and on the Sunday before, I ended up helping out until nearly midnight with getting all the tshirts made for the volunteers! It was crazy. The Tuesday we had a VBS meeting and then on the Wednesday, I went cherry-picking with the Peters family and then we all went swimming afterwards, so that was fun! On Thursday, I went swimming with Brendan, so I've pretty much been swimming nonstop since the Wednesday.

SO! Monday the 9th was the first day of VBS at the bottom of the hill (so I walked down) and then all the kids arrived. Our group was ages four and five, mostly. The first day was pretty hectic since we were all trying to figure out what station was where, but the second day was much easier. I went swimming with Darby afterwards, everyday and Brendan would usually join us, since he had to watch a kid named Joey. On the Wednesday, we all went over to Pam Friedell's house (which is right on the lake) and swam there, which was fun. The Tuesday, we literally swam for four hours. It was crazy! Thursday, Ty actually joined us but not for long and then on Friday, we had a major waterfight in the park since that's where the last day of VBS was held. I'm not sure why but most of the kids were ganging up on me. Like I was the easy target or something...but we were all COMPLETELY soaked by the end of it!

Sunday was the church's tenth anniversary, so I went to that. There was a big barbecue afterwards. On Saturday night, one of my second cousins, Tim (from Ontario, who I've never met before) showed up at Grandma's with two friends. They're biking across Canada and started in Vancouver. So Tim, Andrew and Aryan came to church and then we (plus Carolynn) all went to White Lake afterwards. I've never been swimming there and it was really nice! Darryl and Lona (from our church) brought their new boat and we got to go tubing! We were there for nearly six hours! Darby and I had originally planned to go swimming at the bottom of the hill with the Peterseseseses...but they decided to go boating instead so we hitched a ride with Auntie Sue up to White Lake.

Anyways! VBS was a really cool experience and I got to know some really interesting kids! There was another kid named Preston, who was really really cute and funny! I think he ended up being my favourite. But yeah! Each kid had their own story and their own way of dealing with each activity we did at Vacation Bible School. So it was interesting to see how they would react.

And now? I'm really bored. I got to go to Darby's for a bit yesterday but I'm not sure what the rest of the week will bring. I want to go swimming...
-Kristen