Adventure Now: Family Time

So Thursday at camp went by super fast!! We talked about Daniel and the lion's den. It was my day to teach which I loved since this is one of my most favorite stories! The kids did a skit of the story in an indian version which was really funny! I still am having problems with Danielle though. I just want to slap those stupid looks she gives me when I have to get on to her for something. I hold myself back though. Ethan apparently has said the f word twice now at camp, and still hurting people, and still nothing being done. Don't get me wrong, he still gets like swim time taken away or something like that, but not the kind of punishment he deserves. Anyways my mom and sister got to New Orleans around 8:00ish. Let me just tell you the train station is packed when a train is getting in...imagine that. I accidentally drove over the bridge to like Westbank, and had to pay the toll to get back! Not fun. I did get to the train station, and parked illegally, and then got the fam. We immediately went to Joey K's for dinner, and Sucre for dessert! Amazing, as always. My car was doing something funny with my brakes though so Mom said she would take them to get fixed when Mer and I were at camp Friday.
Friday- Friday was an awesome day at camp, and all of my kids love my sister. One kid told me sister that "Ms. Emily is mean and nice at the same time." I don't know how I accomplished that, but I am looking at it in a positive way, and every teacher/counselor has to get on to people sometimes, but still needs to be likable which I have accomplished! :) The bad thing about Friday is because I was kind of sick. I seriously was in some serious pain all day, and I'm not going to go into details because it is very repulsive everything I was going through. At closing celebration we won the spirit stick, again!! :) :) This means the blue team has won something every week so far!!! After camp mom called and said that my brakes were being fixed, and something else that busted that they found, but it wasn't going to be ready until Saturday afternoon. Therefore, we rented a car. It was a lot of effort to get to this point, but finally everything was done and we had a car for the weekend, and then mom came and picked me and mer up at the seminary, and we went to walgreens so I could get some desperately needed medication. We got back to the hotel, and we all got ready. After some medicine, and more medicine, I felt much better and we went out to dinner at Mother's. AMAZING. I got a po-boy that I would go back for right now! Their ham truly is amazing. They don't lie. We then went to Cafe du Monde for dessert which is always fabulous. After that we went back to the hotel and played phase 10. Love. It. The next morning we got up and got ready for the day. We started off at the French Market of course because it's my absolute favorite. I got a water meter necklace, that mom bought, for $18 but it started off at $28. We kept trying to walk away and the guy kept lowering the price, and gave me a longer chain for free. I was pleased. We got snow balls also, and I got wedding cake. TO DIE FOR. After that we walked down Decatur St and I got some cool stone thing to hang on the wall for $10!! Meredith keeps saying that when we get an apartment in about a year I'm not decorating it with NOLA stuff because we don't live there, but she be crazy. My awesome artwork I buy from here will go in the apartment, and so will Bethany's awesome pictures from Scotland, and whatev else she wants. Mer will get over it. Anyways...we walked about Jackson Square and I wanted to buy so much art, but held myself back. I did donate to at-risk youth, and got to paint my name on a door. Pretty cool. For lunch we went to Johnny's Po-Boys which truly are the best that I've had in NOLA so far. We started walking back to the car, and saw this guys performing so we stopped and watched. They were so funny, and awesome dancers! It was worth it. We then went to go get my nose pierced! I was kind of nervous, but it really didn't hurt very much. It felt just like getting a shot or something then it was over. We went down to Magazine St and got some jewelry! After that we went to dinner at Voodoo BBQ. Mer didn't like it, but oh well. She enjoyed the two-story Target just as much as I do so that was good. Mom really liked it too, as everyone should. We went back to the hotel, and played games and stuff. Then to bed! We had to wake up at 5, and we left around 5:20. I took them to the train station, then drove back to my dorm and went back to bed till around 10. I am supposed to have skype time with Bethany later today so needless to say that will be the highlight of my day. I am so excited!! It has been too long since I've hear that girls voice. Tonight will consist of the normal though. Meet MissionLab, staff meeting, devotion, and hopefully worship with missionlab!! I can't believe week 5 is about to start. MAKE IT STOP!!