I'm sure going to miss living with E-L-L-Y-N. And our Sunrise Spectacles. And drinking coffee together. And being best friends and Choctaw counselors.
LV counselors did a new chapel this morning. Maggie was a puppet controlled by gossip, materialism and anger. Then Christ came and cut the strings and gave her a new life. Mags then did a great wrap up about her life and what she used to be controlled by.
I LOVE watching my girls sing and laugh and clap in chapel. For so many of them this is their first year at camp and the first time they've experienced anything about faith. It's so cool to see them embrace all of this.
Bre is back this week in Shoshone and I love crossing paths with her.
We went on a nature hike in Nature Discovery clinic this morning. Once we were in the woods we dug up the dirt and flipped over logs to find worms and frogs. I was so impressed with the kids that just picked them up with no fear. Audrey was my worm carrier.
We filled up the bucket with six frogs and over thirty worms-- Keith said it was the best collection of the summer.
We made the zipper in friendship bracelet clinic and started making up the drama clinic skit about Lake Camp v River Camp. We had fish stars for lunch and Hopi celebrated Mia's birthday. I had chapel practice during rest hour for the first time of the summer.
Lake time is so fun. One of my favorite sights in the summer is the Richard G. filled with kids blobbin, paddlin, clay-searchin, slidin and rope swingin. Ellyn and I went on paddle boats with our campers and then went off the rope swing. We love the lake even when it's freezing.
The Choctaw girls were the first ones ready to go from the lake and we sang the Choctaw song all the way back. It was easily one of my favorite parts of the day.
We played Dominican Chaos in Main Field with Illinois and the Dots but a lot of the Choctaw girls couldn't take the heat and sat out with Ellyn. How precious are Paige and Ellyn here?
I love Alli Kenney and getting to hang out with her all summer. She has the biggest heart and loves this place so much. This week when everyone is so emotional about the end, she's feeling even more angst and joy and love than normal.
I went on a cookout dinner tonight with Smooney, Chrissy and their cabins. We decided to be really creative with our food and do some experiments. I cut up yellow apples and added butter, sugar and brown sugar to make a crust-less apple pie.
I used the balsamic vinaigrette salad dressing as a marinade and then put in avocado when it was all done cooking. Success! It was delicious.
I really just loved building a fire with Smooney, watching our kids experience a cookout for the first time, making food experiments, playing with Chrissy and getting to see all the girls go crazy.
Our last activity of the night was a scavenger hunt with Eel River. We made the girls run with their teams to count the tires on the black hole hill, get rocks from the CAC that looked like states, write CAMP T with sticks, get a mouth full of water and then come back and gargle, count the bunks in the old cabin, do 4 cartwheels, memorize the signs on Irving's hill and count the benches on the River Lodge porch. It was so fun to get to hang out with Chrissy and little Erin more before the day was done.
Back in Choctaw the girls wrote letters to one of their clinic counselors that they really love. Then we got to have devotions in a big circle with Hopi cabin. Smoon and I talked about how we're known by different names and how God has so many different names too. We sang "Prince of Peace" and talked about which of those names we connected with most. It was sweet to hear the girls articulate their faith like that.
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