Campus Picnic and Church Fair

Last night Southwestern hosted a campus picnic and church fair for all students, faculty and families. Chick-fil-A brought in yummy chicken sandwiches for everyone and there was plenty of water and sweet tea provided too. We walked over to the event, only about 1/4 to 1/2 of a mile probably, but it was so hot and muggy it felt like it was much further. We enjoyed our picnic with another couple, Adam and Danielle. Adam is Casey's accountability partner for his spiritual formation class and he is also in a couple of other classes too.
After dinner we wandered through all the tents set up by various churches in the area (all Southern Baptist). It is amazing to me how diverse some of them were and yet still fundamentally align themselves under the same SBC name. We now have water bottles, t-shirts, pens, popcorn, cotton candy and a variety of other goodies, not too mention all the cd's and fliers to look through. It was fun though and really great to make some more connections.
The boys waited patiently while we talked with everyone we wanted too (of course being bribed with cookies and candy along the way helped) and then we took them to the bouncy area. They had brought in about a dozen inflatables for the kids to play on or in, the boys enjoyed that. I was happy to stay and visit and let the boys play, but Casey had lots of homework hanging over his head, so we headed home.