Off on an adventure...

Tomorrow morning at 5am the Crowell family along with about 60 others are heading about 1000 miles to South Dakota to the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. We will be working with the Lakota Indians who are a part of the Sioux Indian Tribe. We have been preparing for this trip for several months and I can't believe it is finally here. We will basically be having an indoor camping trip with 17 other families while we work at a youth center for the week. We have lots of fun events planned including a carnival with a bounce house, cotton candy machine, dunking booth etc. We also have a band coming to do a concert on Thursday night. Some of the guys are heading a couple hours north for the week to rehab a church that is in desperate need of repairs. I am in charge of crafts for 4 days which has put me on a first name basis with the manager at Hobby Lobby (who am I kidding...we were already friends but now we are best buds!).

Yesterday we packed a 16 foot truck with all of our supplies. Someone had a great idea to pack our things in banana boxes since everything was uniform and they worked perfectly! We have just about every square inch of that truck loaded down from food for the entire week (no grocery stores for hours!), construction supplies, carnival supplies and then even more food. Did I mention that we have 700 hotdogs for the carnival? How crazy is that?

And so with excitement and some apprehension we head out for quite the adventure. Please keep us in your prayers that we will travel safely and that our time there will bring happiness to those in need. I will try to update the blog since I know I will not have cell phone service. Our group also has a blog that will definitely be updated daily if you want to keep tabs on us. The blog is http://www.sdteam2009.blogspot.com/

See you soon!