Camps

Last week was Girl's Camp for our church. I was in charge of about 90 girls and 20 adults. It was fun, hot, frustrating, sweaty, and exhausting. We went to Camp Snyder, a Boy Scout Camp in Haymarket, VA. They had 600 girls there for the week. They had a really great facility with a Archery and BB Gun range, a COPEs course (similar to a Ropes course that's used for team building), a lake with canoes and paddle boats and an olympic pool.


Kirstin was a Youth Camp Leader(YCL) which meant she helped the leader in her level. This was her 5th year and she was very excited to be a YCL. One of her friends, Camille was in the same level and they were quite the pair! They decided they wanted to have theme days. So each day they picked out a different them and dressed and acted that way the entire day. It's things like this that make camp fun for yourself and others your working with. I'm so glad she had a great attitude about camp. 

The first day was super hero day. Kirstin was the black widow and Camille was Green Lantern


The next day was Geek Day. Camille and Kirstin with one of their 2nd Year Girls, Ameila

 This one of Camille cracks me up every time!

Me stealing a hug!

Then there was cartoon character day? Kirstin is Cookie Monster, which is also her nickname. (technically not a cartoon character but close enough.) Camille was an Incredible Batman?

The last day was Safari day where they were Steve Irwin and The Crocodile Hunter. 

Yes, I know they are the same person but we'll allow for some incongruity given the situation. Here is a fun little clip they did while at the pool. (Hope it works!) They are such nuts but everyone loved them!

Most days it was go, go, go until I dropped between 11-1am. Some of the lucky leaders got to stay in a cabin with bunk bed cots, AC, a shower & bathroom and kitchen. I was one of the lucky ones. Most of our leaders were slightly older and felt that two mattresses were more comfortable than one so one day, as a joke, I had Rose, my assistant camp director take this picture. We cracked ourselves up. 

Somehow everything seems so much more funny at camp. Probably because I get silly when I'm tired and I'm pretty much always tired there. I need a full 8 hours of sleep and I average 5 soooo.... It's a given that I'll giggle at whatever you say. It was fun but I'm so glad to be home even if it meant that there were 4 loads of laundry waiting for me besides what I had to do from camp. 

We did have a blowout tire on the way home which was just such a joy to change on the side of the road in 99 degree heat with beach traffic passing us by. 

We got a lot of encouragement by way of honks when I was bent over getting the spare tire out of the back. All I'm saying is, I hope Karma is real.

After we got it fixed we stopped at Wendys because a frosty makes everything better and while in the process of using the bathroom I discovered there was no toilet paper. Seriously?!!!!! Thankfully Kirstin was in the stall beside me and saved the day. Actually, she pretty much changed the tire, having done so in the civic just a month ago when she got a flat tire at the beach.

Boys? Who needs them? Moster women are strong!