CON

Saturday I was invited to help out the Chapmans invited me to help out with a social event for the College of Nursing (CON) students. It was to be an afternoon of games. We broke out all my favorite childhood games plus a few I had never played before. We did the Human Knot, Sack Race, jump rope relay, stomp the balloon, Last Couple, Flying Dutchman, etc, etc.

It was a blast to see them all having so much fun. Most of the games were new to all of them. And I am not sure if some things were lost in translation or just because they are not used to relay type games. But I noticed they took most of the rules pretty liberally. And when someone new would arrive, even if the team had the most people on it already, they were out recruiting. So we kept having to stop to rearrange the teams. Multiple teams would finish, but you could not really tell the winner. However, would you could tell was how much fun they had.

So when it was time for the balloon toss, we ran it twice. I asked Diane, if I could introduce them to the water balloon fight concept. She agreed (after all it started raining, and they were already tossing water balloons). So I completely pelt one of the students with a water balloon, and everyone gets into it. Then a HUGE balloon hits my head and just soaked me! (well deserved, I know)

Of course, any activity like this attracts a crowd. From the smallest to the oldest, we had quite a crowd watching us.

Diane and Mike have a real heart for these kids. They really love on them, which the kids really love (for most of them it's their first time away from home). I was so happy to get to hang out with them.

After all my fun their, I enjoyed dinner with several folks from the station, as the Dooleys returned from their vacation with Chinese food! This is a real treat, as they had to bring it back from 3 hours away! It was a fantastic time of eating and fellowship, even though the lights were out for most of it!