Today was one of the best breakfasts I think we have ever had this trip! We started breakfast at 7:45 am down in the cafeteria with the Sisters for about 30 minutes, having a great breakfast. After that great breakfast, we headed back upstairs to our rooms to make lunch for later and get stuff ready for later. Then we headed at 9:15 to the Daycare to work with younger kids and played games.  After playing games with the kids, we headed over to the other side of the Place to the Day Hab to hang out, do some fun singing, crafts, bingo, and bring some people to the Museum. After the 4 and a half hours of service we did that day, we headed home, and sadly, we had to cancel line dancing due to the bad weather in Iowa, but we did do something more fun: we did the 2026 ACE Olympics. First place was Ponyboy, Second place was Mudshovel, and third was the teachers.  The games were some mixes of thinking, which was trivia, some were physical, which was bowling, and lastly, there was the ability to work with your teammates, which was very important and something we have been trying to work on all week. After the very long day, we all settled down and relaxed.

Today was such a fun day for all of us! We started with breakfast, which was pancakes and sausage.  After a GREAT breakfast we headed out to go Bowling with our clients! We spent about 1 hour there and had so much fun hanging out with new clients and just getting to bowl! Then we headed home in the cars (The white car is PonyBoy and the Black Car is Mudshovel) to eat lunch and hang out with the sisters which was a huge highlight of the day.  Also a little fun thing that happened last night is that we played a prank on some of the teachers, which was so much fun! We headed out to go to the arcade for about 2 hours and all the kids had so much fun hanging out, playing fun games together and eating pizza and salad. After a very fun and long day, we headed home in the cool cars (Ponyboy was having some fire music on) and got home around 6:40pm. We met up as a group for some talking and going over some stuff for tomorrow. After we just went around playing games and we found some type of BUG on the ground, which wasn't to bad. Then we made some popcorn and just hung out doing random things till 10pm, then lights out hit. 

Today was a long day of many fun things! Today at 7am we woke up and ate breakfast together in our main hangout room, then we all got ready to head out for a day of fun at Hills and Dales!  We got to hills and dales at about 8:45am and got a quick tour of Hills and Dales before we went to the  activity room and set up everything for our clients to come in and have the time of their life! Our activities included, Reading room where we read to the clients, Painting/Art, and lastly BINGO! After so much fun with the clients, we headed back to Francis house to eat lunch in the Hangout spot. As we finished lunch, we all started to head out to go to the Mississippi River Museum for about 2 hours, Which was very fun! students got the chance to see many fish and pet sting rays and Starfish, which was a huge highlight of the day! We headed back to Hills and Dales right after we finished the Museum, going to work with our clients again. This time with the clients we set up another art room that also had some games! We also set up bowling and a Bouncy house! We spent about one hour with them before we had to head out and go back home. When we got home we started to make dinner which was Spaghetti!  After dinner we headed out to get some great ice cream! But something very sad happened today, The girls Showers Broke! Lucky we found another place to shower so all is well. As the day ended we got together and had our talk time and after that we headed to relax and lights out at 10pm.