I’m sitting here, dressed and ready to run in our room at the Holiday Inn here in Central Point Oregon. This is our last day before heading home for a few weeks.
You’ll notice I haven’t updated this lovely little site with the content of my life real recently. I am terribly sorry. My computer died about a month ago, and my pretty little Nikon fell to it’s demise about a week ago. Lu has been kind enough to let me borrow his laptop for twitter and stuff, but I haven’t had any real pictures to share.
In 2007, we spent the entire summer touring with other bands across the east and midwest. In 2008, We toured by ourselves through the southwest to the midwest. In 2009, We spent our entire summer In northern California and southern Oregon playing music at camps. We were at Mt Hope outside of Oroville, CA for three weeks(I was only there for the first two. Joey ran Week 3.) and at Fir Point Bible Camp in Glendale, OR for two.
The people at Mount Hope Bible Camp are like family. We’ve found a way to be at 5 out of 6 youth camps they’ve done in the last year or two. We loves spending time with those people, and they tend to like seeing us. We always have a blast up there.
We worked a lot with Tara, the camp’s videographer. We made a few skits and showed them throughout the camp. I don’t know if I’m allowed to put them on youtube, so I’m waiting. I am personally proud of everything we filmed up there.
Fir Point was a new experience for us this year. We didn’t know anyone except the camp director, and no one had a clue who we were. The entire first half of the high school week, all the kids thought we were just the worship band. They couldn’t fathom that we did this for a living. They really liked us when we played our concert on Wednesday.
Carter, the man in charge, wanted to have the campers to participate in a video contest. The kids would make videos about the fun things that happen at camp. Winner gets fifty dollars. Carter wondered if the band had any experience making silly camp videos. I tried to reframe from laughing in the man’s face.
One of the other nice things about no one knowing you at a separate camp is that you can recycle your material and nobody knows it came from anywhere else. If you were at Mt. Hope and saw the Shark-Ball video, the talking deer will probably less than brilliant creativity. Our video won the fifty dollars by a landslide. We spent it all on ice cream for the kids.
These camps have been really fun, but we’re looking forward to going home for a little while to finish some products and try to make some money before our fall tour, where we WILL BE at Joshuafest.