Friday: Delayed, Like the Rest of the Week!

Woke up to Deckster singing "Rise 'n Shine!" The morning seemed to drag on - we had a very slow start getting out of the base camp.

Josh's van didn't go to the Rush's right away. We went to Wal-Mart to get pics developed to make a photo album and get things to fix Aristotle's bike.

We went back to the Rush's to meet up with the rest of the gang and to finish up whatever needed to be finished...up. Which wasn't very much at all. Nathan repaired Aristotle's bike while the rest of us made our way to the pool which was now fully filled and ready to play in.

The pool was wicked! We spent a whole working day in the pool just having good laughs with the 4 boys and performing somersaults and other crazy jumps into the pool. We got pretty sweet tan lines.

This is where the hard part of the week came. It was time for the good-byes we were dreading all week. Claire, Stacy, Martha and Connie sang for the Rushes. We shared a heartfelt prayer and said our good-byes, which were not easy at all. I don't think there was a dry eye in the house the Rushes can now call home.

Ms. Rush told us to be grateful for things we have. She asked us to tell our parents how much we really do love them as well. She was so very thankful and appreciated everything we did for them.

We would just like to let everyone reading know that we may have helped the Rushes in a small way but they impacted OUR lives in a much bigger way than they'll ever know. They have managed to find a place in each and every one of our hearts.

Almost as soon as we were back to the base camp, it started to rain. This was almost symbolizing to us a closure of the week. We couldn't go to Biloxi because of the rain unfortunately, but we did however get to watch movies, go out to the Cracker Barrel for dinner and ... CUT JOSH'S HAIR!!! Muhahaha...

~ Connie and Nathan