The Daily Kelly - Day 149

Today was set up day! It was definitely a different experience setting up for our first camp with kids who aren't really kids anymore. We're expecting a group of rising high school seniors with a few recent high school graduates sprinkled in for good measure. We get to talk about stuff like careers, college applications, and other exciting stuff we don't usually cover with our younger kids. We also got to buy chocolate since these kids are all old enough not to eat it if they're allergic. I'm sooo excited!

The mayor of DC helped our non-profit partner secure the OCTO offices for camp, so we have a super nice facility... the walls are white boards, that's pretty awesome :-)

Here I am helping to get the facility's computers tucked safely away before we brought in our own equipment:

After setup day, the WonderTwins and Evan went out to dinner and then wandered around downtown Alexandria by the waterfront. I fell (what else is new) and feel like I sprained my ankle pretty bad (and maybe my partner's back where I caught myself with my good wrist), but we still managed to have fun.

First, my partner found a cool car:

Then, Evan had a found a cow!

And finally, I took a propeller to the head. Ouch!

 We also had the opportunity to make some questionable stops in our wanderings... 

But that's a story for another day... 

Once we made it back to the hotel, my ankle was crazy super swollen (usually, I have actual ankles):  

My partner filled one of my room's (exceedingly clean) trash cans with ice and water and made me ice it. A lot. And he stayed with me to make sure I actually did it (yeah, it seriously hurt enough for me to have probably not have done it more than once like he made me do it). 

Here's a pic I took after he finally let me take my foot out of the water:

The redness is from the ice, but I think it looks a little less swollen. I'm glad my partner has sports medicine knowledge. For realz.