"Hey guys! We found a pile of sticks."

The CILT Pack has gone nerd today thanks to the CILT Jar. Perhaps we should be called the Nerd Pack instead. We picked up 40 pairs of 3-D glasses from the movies last night so we could take our outfits to the next level. 

It's a little weird to not be wearing a wolf shirt on this Wednesday but I'm going White House Wednesday instead since it's 'Merica week.

Do good. Have fun. CILT Pack. 
Do math. Have retainers. Nerd Pack.

We've turned our free morning into Swaggy Butterfly Extreme Unicorn Zombie Day. We headed back to the OT to start our second game of Fugitive. Our 8 brave fugitives strategized while the rest of us spread out to hunt them down and attack them.

I hid in the well house with Kristyn and Colleen just waiting for someone to come by so we could sneak attack them. No one ever came our way but all the fugitives did get caught.

The Nerd Pack played 4 on a Couch in the Party Room and team Hair Up won! Then came the epic moment when the CILTs got to make their wooden name tags. Christian told me he's been dreaming of this since he was 8 years old.

Our last hour was spent having CILT blob and wet willy time up at the Richard G. The Nerd Pack is always with their adopted cabins during swim time so it was sweet to get to just play together.

Since I'm the only non-lifegaurd counselor I got to be on the blob the whole time with the campers. It was a grand time of blobbing, jumping and playing king of the mountain.

We made it back to the Riv just in time for lunch and ended the Swaggy Butterfly Extreme Unicorn Zombie time by eating on the porch overlooking the River.

Arielle, Smoon and I went up to the LV to try out the new Village game called Plunder. This is exactly how we felt as we raced into this game that we knew very little about.

There are about 20 different ships that everyone is trying to take over. You can board a ship by getting a ball in the bucket. Then you have 1 minute to assemble the necessary crew members for that specific ship.

Once a team has a ship you can get them out by hitting them with the balls dodgeball style. You hit their captain last, but if an Imperial hits the captain the ship is immediately lost to the East India Trading Company.

Luckily I know a bunch of kids in Lake this week so I got them to teach me how to play and then I used them to take back ships from the Imperials.

I did a lot of screaming and gold (aka rubber band) collecting and very little boat defending. This was good because I got to see lots of friends like Lilly, Liz, Annie, Ava, Sophie, Hallie and Amy.

I briefly played in the pool after pop stop but the afternoon flew by. Soon it was time for RFAJWD.

And I can't really tell you anything about that.  CILT Pack stuff.

Arielle and Smoon are constantly working out or keeping me entertained.

Some of the Day Camp counselors visited for a little bit and Maddy and I just happened to be twinning tonight. She's my HSE Young Life person here at camp when I'm missing that community. So thankful for her.

"If I had hair like yours I wouldn't be nervous about anything."

This morning I got to see Hallie and Caroline at the start of chapel. Some days I'm nostalgic for the time before villages were created and everyone was together all the time. We'd have Trading Post with Pathfinders and Braves playing on Ft. Disco, all camp swims and you'd see all your friends all day long. Then I remember that if we went back to that so many fewer campers and counselors would get to be here all summer. 

It is a beautiful thing when we're all together in one place.

I'm thankful for the bonds of friendships that develop so quickly like with Jack and his new cabin. I'm thankful for the friendships that last for years like with Taylor Fischl.

Day Camp shadow day is one of my favorites because I get to see my old campers like Kat, Maddy and Diggy all in action as counselors with their trail groups.

They are phenomenal and their campers love them.

The other reason today is awesome is because I get to see the CILTs jump in to something totally new and go crazy with their new kids having so much fun. Megan, Haley, Colleen and Lauren were all so excited to get started.

Meet the triplets. Wendts of CILTs 2013 Session 2 on the left. Johnsons of CILTs 2014 Session 2 on the right.

Triplets intermixed... Claire, Kristyn, Blake, Evan, Lauren and Kiley.

Warring triplets. Actually they all got along really. We put a Johnson triplet in each of the Wendt's trail groups today.

It's Sophie's first week of Day Camp and I loved seeing her chase around her campers today.

I still have some friendship bracelets to pass out and I've developed some fun games to get it done. Today I became friends with Griffin and he helped me pull of some shenanigans and tricks. First we put a rolled up bracelet in his shoe and he had to go ask a counselor to help him get the "rock" out. Later we tied it to a fence at the mini farm and he brought over a counselor to show her the cool thing he found. We stuffed one in a potted plant he showed a counselor the cool "bug" he found. All the counselors passed the test and almost all of them knew it was from me right away.

I played at Ft. Disco with the Rangers for awhile as they played Cops and Robbers and ran all over the place.

I found Bunny, a little girl who comes to December Quilt Camp, running around.

After lunch everyone headed over to the pool for swim lessons and free time. 

Oh my gosh I love 5 year olds so much.

Day Camp day is also awesome because there are SO many people to play with their campers. Looking out at the pool, every kid has someone swimming around with them.

When we made it back to the Longhouse this afternoon there was a HUGE care package waiting from our friend Kerri. Inside we discovered several different care packages for people at camp.

We quickly opened the one labeled for the CILT Counselors and Odle. I'm most excited about my new pedometer and can't wait to start measuring my steps all over camp.

Tonight Smoon and I hit up Chipotle, classic Sarah move, with Maddy, Diggy, Olde, K Max and Kristen. All of these girls were once CILTs and I love being on staff and being friends with them now. They're hilariuos and fun and nice and super weird and the kind of people you just want to be