Thursday, August 14, 2008

Week 4 in MidWest

On the 25th we drove 12 hours from Lincoln Nebraska to Detroit, Michigan where we would stay the next two nights. We were scheduled to attend a tournament hosted by the University of Detroit-Mercy but could never get in contact with our contact for the event and we even went to the school to find out if anything was going on but found nothing. So we spent our time there checking out the decent areas of Detroit. This included driving across the river to Canada for lunch. After Canada we drove south to Indianapolis. We spent one night in Indianapolis to attend the Butler University camp on the 28th. We basically did the same thing that we had done at every other camp. Just played some games and aloud them to shoot at the sign. It was a successful event because it had good numbers and also one of the campers won a $200 gift card from shooting at the sign. After the camp we drove two hours east to Cincinnati. On the 29th we went to the University of Cincinnati camp where we did the same thing as the day before at Butler, but no one was fortunate to make it through the sign. Following camp we then drove back up to Detroit for the Michigan Rush camp. At the camp on the 30th we had to change some things up. Since the camp had about 200 kids we didn't have time to play a game with each individual team so we just let everyone shoot at our sign as there coaches sent them over. This camp in fact was our best camp of the summer because all of the kids were excited and energetic and we had 3 kids win $200 gift cards from making it through the sign. Immediately following the camp at 12 noon, we drove straight to Chicago for a Professional game between English team Everton FC and MLS team Chicago Fire. Hear we set up our tent 3 hours before the game and just gave out catalogs and posters and other promotional information. We didn't raffle anyhting off because we had ran out of raffle pads, plus the attendance was low for the game. Once the game started we broke down and went into watch the game. We would spend the next 5 nights in Chicago.

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