We just got back from church camp. There's quite a bit I could say about the experience, and I intend to start blogging some more about it now that my life will be a good deal less stressful. For now, I want to share one story.
I stayed as a counselor with the 9th-10th grade boys. Carolina stayed with another counselor in the oldest girls' cabin. One of the 5th grade girls at camp who is a visitor to our congregation was talking to the other girls in her cabin and said, "I'm mad at Mr. Mark". Portia (one of our own) asked "Why?" The girl replied, "Because I saw him holding hands with Carolina!" Portia said, "Why is that a problem?"
"Because she's a camper!"
So the big joke for most of the week was that I was holding hands with the girl campers.
When we first moved to Old Hickory, we were sitting outside on like the 2nd day when this large turtle came walking briskly down our sidewalk. I got some good shots of Nacho with the Turtle. When I picked it up, it kept nipping at my hand. Nacho kept sniffing its face, which concerned me, but nothing bad happened. At any rate, I just thought these were good pictures.
Carolina and I just got back from watching the new Transformers movie. This is by far the best kids' cartoon-to-adult movie transition I've seen. I love that they didn't try and change it all to fit the director's artistic agenda. So many things were just like the cartoons...or slightly cooler. The voices were great. The animations looked very realistic in my opinion. The sound effects were reminiscent of the old ones. So many of my favorite characters showed up with personalities like I remembered them. If you played with these toys as a kid or watched the cartoon, I would highly recommend the movie. It is almost non-stop action. I really wish I had an awesome car with a custom paint job now.
