Woke up before 7am. Given this trip counts as a "holiday" in Kaz's eyes I coukdn't believe I was up so early. Nicky was obviously feeling the same because she was out running! We got up and I pushed the group over to the Club for breakfast. Things have changed since last time we were here. The computer suite has ceased to exist, so I had to use a PC in the office to email Kaz. In the afternoon we were loaded onto an American school bus and went to Ashland. The Catholic school of St Labre is there and has a swimming pool.
On the way there we arrived too early so the bus driver headed off along a road. Before I knew it I was staring down at an Amish settlement.
A young girl had taken a shine to Issak. He wasn't impressed, so naturally he was wound up by the group about it! The Venturers enjoyed the swimming and the chance to cool down. As I stood outside the Swimming pool building a pony meandered along and started to eat grass along the sides of the pavement.
Liam Pitt found marshmellow spread and Peter thought he'd died and gone to heaven. As we pulled up by our trailer Rick arrived and invited us to his house one evening next week. Sharing with the Christian boys was an experience. They had tried to be helpful by drying our clothes in the dryer on full heat... Nicky freaked out! The rest of the night was pretty quiet.
I was awake again before 7am. The group had breakfast at the club again. The trailer was looking like a bomb had hit it. I made the Venturers clear it up. You could hear their protests all the way over in Billings! The activity was swimming again. Some Venturers stayed at the club and roller bladed instead. Emma had askedNicky to make an arrow for the Sun Dance. But at the last moment she was told that she couldn't- being a woman, The actual Sun Dance is a very male ceremony. So I had to make the arrow. I didn't do a bad job considering the arrowhead was only ornamental and split the arrow shaft. In the evening we cooked for ourselves in the trailer. Katie ate like she had hollow legs! The group was starting to jell together. Latter with no activity planned we hired two DVDs- "23" and "Little Miss Sunshine". Everyone laughed at the end of LMS and felt pretty good.
The club is undergoing one of its periodic financial crisis. There were scarcely any workers employed at the club and the teenage programme has suffered.
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