Day 1: Kingdom House And Zoo

Kingdom House: Tour

Today was the first day of service work. We went to Kingdom House to get a tour and the start the day off with the garden. In the tour we got to see what their program is like and how they run. We also got to see where we are working at for the days we are here.

Joey and Alex obviously didn't want to be by us girls. :)

Kingdom House here we come

Kingdom House: Garden

Today for our first service work day at Kingdom House we worked in the garden that they have there. All together we had three jobs to do. Weeding, Harvesting, and watering the plants and garden. The people who were weeding were Ashley, Chad, Lauren, Lexigh and Alli. The people harvesting were Mrs. Hoffman, Izzy and Nicholas. We also had two different groups of people watering one group was at the main Kingdom House, the other group was at the Kingdom House Academy. The group at the Kingdom House Academy was Kate, Taylor and Travis. The group at the main Kingdom House was Joey and Alex. With everyone working together we finished gardening in two hours.

After finishing the garden we needed some shade.

Lunch And Game

After working in the heat for two hours we went back to the house to eat and get some rest before our mini lesson with Natalie. When everyone relaxed and ate Natalie came over to show who most of the people who come to Kingdom House look like. 

Zoo

After we played the game with Natalie and ate lunch, we went to the St. Louis Zoo. The zoo has many animals and insects for our " Science Trip". We were there for over two hours and didn't get to see the all of the animals but we still loved it and had fun. 

Uh Oh

Guess Alex is a seal now

Some people got thirsty.

Supper

For tonight we had Kate, Izzy, and Taylor cook supper with the help of Mrs. Hoffman. They cooked spaghetti and alfredo for us. Almost everyone got seconds besides the people who got a lot on the first trip. We also had a food competition between Alex and Taylor. With five minutes to eat their food Alex ate his in a little under three minutes and Taylor right on the dot. All together it was a good meal.