Day (10)

Retreat day one!! so nervous for tonight-dinner is chicken parm and Kaylee is freaking out more than we are! Started making brownies at like 2:30 and had dinner done kinda early! since support staff doesn't have Jstaff, just worked on putting all the group and trail food together while everyone did a deep clean of the property. Bad news-our Food City order was apparently never transmitted to the shipper, so some of the food we needed for trail food wasn't going to be here for the first event at all. UH OH. Made a plan, and I was so frustrated and tired at this point and now i had to make a trip all the way to Bristol where the Sam's Club and Wal-Mart is to get 400 Nature Valley bars and a whole bunch of apple cider. I've been so worried about forgetting things, there's so much that hasn't been on our food orders, but so far we've always remembered right before it was too late. Hikers started arriving around 4:00 for Meet and Greet!! MJ did announcements and a tour of the property while we finished up dinner. We were a little nervous having to announce dinner, but it was more fun than I expected. The worship team was awesome, everyone seemed really excited for the new additions to the band- noah on the djembe drum, ashley singing, and matthew on bass. We did the WT Security Skit after dinner, which turned out to be kind of chaotic- we didn't really have a good plan for the first night we had only practiced the Top Gun skit for the next night. (Mary Walker and I bought the boys a Seal Team Six book just so they could look like they knew what they were doing)