What's your name?

Day 2 - Saturday


We just started this trip and we're relaxing already? How can this be? Aren't we supposed to be serving someone? These were just a few of the questions that ran through my mind. Due to a cancellation of the camp we were supposed to help with, we had no set schedule today. At some time all we had to do was drive the rest of the way to Wild Rose, WI, about 2 hours.


As you can imagine the youth were very excited about getting a day to sleep in. I'm pretty sure our director was excited too as he was the last one up. 


So what do you do when the females out number the males 6:1 and you have plenty of time? Go shopping of course! For 2 hours we shopped at the outlets in Oshkosh, WI. Almost everybody bought something. Caleb was even able to find some shorts WITHOUT holes in them. Thank you, Lee store!

Nothing bought here but it was fun to look around!

I'm not sure how she passed these up.

After shopping, we went to Arby's for lunch. It happened there. It started with two girls. I knew something was up - they were giggling and whispering in line to order food. Then I heard an employee say, "Betty?" Wait a second... I'm pretty sure we don't have a Betty in our group. Then I heard, "Edna?". Okay, I KNOW we don't have an Edna. Then I heard a bunch of giggles from, who I could only assume were, Betty and Edna. Okay, girls, that was pretty funny.


When we got back in the van to finish the drive to Wild Rose, Betty and Edna decided EVERYONE had to have a new name. Not just any name would do though. Betty and Edna insisted that everyone have an "old" lady name. It took quite a long time and many internet searches (hooray for smartphones) to give everyone a new name. We ended up with Betty, Edna (sometimes called "special"), Hertha, Priscilla (or Cilla), Ursula, Gertie, Ethyl (sometimes called Ethanol by Hertha), Hubert (usually Bert but never Hube), and Wilburt (usually Burt). The next task was to call each other by these names and not our real names. Oh the mass confusion that arose but what fun to be able to rename each other!




Betty, Priscilla, Ursula, Edna, Gertie, and Hertha