VBS Final Day

Today was the last day of VBS. Part of today’s activity was rehearsing for the show for the parents. I skipped that – I got tasked with taking the two thousand plus pictures we’ve taken on this trip and distilling it down into a 3 ½ minute slide show for the parents. Kyle and I both subscribe to the shot early and shoot often school of digital photography. We’ll put pictures up on Flicker later so parents can get at them, and I’ll post the slide show when I have more bandwidth.

Here’s the kids singing one of their songs for the parents – making a pretty mean crocodile at this point. In the background is a painting of a rock memorial God helped Cindy McGarvie paint – she told Kyle and I the story of how she went to an art shop to paint it, and got all this “random” help painting it.

The hotel did a special dinner for all the UTB Conference participants, and the weather cooperated, giving us a nice candlelight dinner, since power was out for a good portion of dinner. This was a rainbow from a couple days ago, but could have been tonight with the storm we had this afternoon. I had a pair of pants drying on my balcony and now I have to repeat the process – they were nearly dry before the storm came through.
Tomorrow morning we start going our separate ways. Half the group leaves the hotel at 7:30, the rest of us at noon after a local excursion. Most of us with the exception of Sarah will reunite in Nairobi, but from there we scatter in three different directions until we all get back to Orange County over the next two and a half weeks. Sarah is headed to Uganda to do a VBS there with the Wicks, and help them finish their packing for their move back to the United States.