My two younger kids attended Vacation Bible School this week at our church.  They had their closing celebration Friday evening which was really nice.  It was my younger daughter’s first year at VBS and she had a great time.  Unfortunately I misplaced my camera so didn’t get any photos of the show.  Of course when I told my son later he told me I had left it beside the TV at home.  I wish I had asked him earlier!   Duh…. !!

Friday and Saturday morning my son attended baseball camp with the Long Island Ducks, a local minor league baseball team. He was very fortunate to have won a scholarship to attend through the Kevin Williams Foundation.  We are very grateful to Kevin's family for their generosity.  It’s a nice camp where the kids are taught everything by the Ducks players in their stadium (which holds just over 6,000 seats). 

Friday rained but they held the camp anyway.  Saturday’s weather was so much nicer.  The sun was out and the temps climbed to around 80.  My little girl decided she wanted to be my son’s cheerleader.  I managed to get a few photos of my son from a skirmish game, mostly of him batting. 

No closeups because he wouldn’t stand still that long! 

I had to get one of the cheerleader too of course…

At the end of camp each day the kids had a pizza party with the players where they would autograph balls, bats or whatever the kids brought with them.  They have a pro shop there where the kids can buy baseball cards (and other stuff) so the players can sign those too.  When everything was done on Saturday each kid got a nice embroidered team jersey and a Spalding equipment bag.  The bag was really nice and came with different color pieces you could switch for the top piece to change the look of it.  My son was pretty impressed with it.  He had been sent to the camp on a scholarship and the place that sent him bought him a really nice Yankees aluminum bat so he had the players sign that.

Camp was over at 12:30 and my son’s mentor showed up to take him to Splish Splash, which is a huge water park here on Long Island.  My son had never been there before and neither had his mentor.  They were supposed to be going with a group, a bunch of mentors and other kids, and the trip was supposed to start earlier in the morning at Splish Splash but since my son had camp his mentor and the organization agreed to let them meet the group later so he could do both. 

The only problem was (and I didn’t find this out until last night) the person who was supposed to meet them with the tickets didn’t show when he was supposed to, so my son’s mentor had to shell out $70 out of his own pocket for tickets.  Good thing he had cash on him!  I hope he will not have a hard time getting reimbursed.  He was nice enough to take my son out for ice cream later too.  The drive to Splish Splash is probably an hour away from here so I’m surprised he had any energy left!