So I'm going to pretend that I posted this last weekend.
I decided a while back that it would be fun to take Hillary, Madeline, and Anna out to the farm to experience wheat harvest since they hadn't ever done it before so we loaded up on Thursday and set out for the farm. What an event it was!! I had forgotten how much fun harvest was and the girls helped to remind me with all their antics. I tried to give them as full of a farm experience as I could which included riding in the back of the pickup, four-wheeler rides, playing with kittens, and even drivin
g a tractor (for Madeline), in addition to all of the harvest activities. We ended the evening with a moonlit walk down to the creek and some singing, by them not me.It was quite the experience and I'm glad that it worked out for them to come along.
In addition to the farm experience, I went to the Legacy Camp final program on Friday and ate Tanzanian food on Saturday. Legacy Camp is a week long program of activities for troubled teens that teaches them many different ways to be creative and helps to keep them out of trouble for a week. It was a long program with some arduous moments, but I had to go after hearing Hillary and Aspen talk about it all week, and there were definitely some highlights including a women's ensemble version the Open Road song, "Lord Be Near Me."
Tanzanian food isn't the greatest and I don't highly recommend it, especially if you have a slightly squeamish stomach. Goat meat is very chewy and full of fat, d
on't buy it, and it's hard to cook 30 some cups of rice at one time. However, I did hear some interesting facts about the country and there are a lot of things that are found only in Tanzania, according to the speakers. I have some very interesting videos of some of the youth trying to reenact the Tanzanian dance that we were watching during the dinner, let me know if you want to see them sometime.Look for a conference update soon, it might be kind of long.
Peace,
Daniel
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