Yesterday we had the last day at a Summer Good News Club. GNC is a sort of camp that our  church hosts each year. In the first half of camp two little kid teams and two big kid teams do relays and other games to win points for their team. Afterwards a group of four teenagers (CEF students) comes and sings songs, tell stories, read and memorize scripture, and many other fun games.   Throughout the week Me and a few other friends from my Youth Group helped referee games, handing out snacks and lunch, and lots of other things. This morning when we arrived, Travis and I were tasked with filling up over a hundred water balloons. From 9:00am to 12:00pm we oversaw many relays that had something to do with getting wet. When GNC ended with the the CEF kids getting pied in the face multiple times the Kyker fam headed home for some well needed rest. At around 3:30  Mom told us that our local water park was doing four dollars a ticket instead of twelve. She also told us that the our cousins were coming as well.

   The park consists of three large slides, a mini slide for younger kids, a large pool, and a splashing area. 

   When we left an hour and a half later we drove home and met up with Dad. Following our arrival, Dad told us that we were going to go out to eat. Hurriedly we changed out of bathing suits and into clean clothes. At least I did. I don't know about the three little boys. When we were in the car, Dad surprised us with going to see the new Disney Pixar movie Inside Out. Sadly the only showing was started thirty minutes before we even left the house. Finally we found a showing that started at 10:00pm. When at last we got home and crawled into bed it was past midnight. For what its worth I think that was a awesome day to end our summers awesomeness.

 
If you can believe it today is my parents seventeenth wedding anniversary. With grand ideas of hiking through the woods along a somewhat difficult trail in the Jones Gap state park, we left our house with backpacks and water bottles. When we entered Jones Gap we were dismayed to find out that they were at their full capacity and that we had to wait for forty five minutes until we would be able to go into the state park. Not wanting to sit there and wait we turned around and decided to go hiking at Table Rock state park. This time we were let in to everyones great delight. By the end of our hike I was really glad that we decided to go to Table Rock.