Campers and Counselors getting sprayed down by the fire truck... what an amazing day!!!
Well session C has begun, and although it's been a bit of a hectic start, it's been a whole lot of fun!!! Session C is a 2 week session, with some campers staying 3 or 4 weeks, by staying over and going to session D... also a 2 week session. In the short time since my last post, it seems like soo much has happened!!! We had opening day for session C, where we met all the new campers, demonstrated all the activities available, then went through the sign up process. Also on that opening day we put all the campers through a swim test, to see if they can actually swim. (Nothing worse that a kid claiming they can swim, then immediately panicking as they hit the water... however, we have whole bunch of lifeguards on hand for the test, and they go one at a time so it's always safe.)
Day 2 of the session saw us do a free choice morning while schedules were still being put together (100 kids, 10 activities each, then assigning counsellors with the correct skill sets to each class... our director does a great job to have this done within 24 hours usually) Free choice sees us manning activities for 2 longer than normal periods. The kids are then free to move around the activities as they wish. The girls had their campouts that evening, and the boys had dinner in camp, then played a rowdy game of capture the flag on the top sporting field. This was followed by a twilight swim!!
Tonight was one of the hi lights of the camp calender, icky olympics!!! Icky olympics is a massive, all camp food fight, flimsily disguised as a food based contest. Beneath this paper thin veneer of credibility lies one of the most epic camp events! Involving shaving cream, ice cream, watermelon, and eggs, there is little to no chance of getting out clean. Thankfully the olympics climax with one of our Directors (Rick Moxley, the man that Chuck Norris checks his closet for before he sleeps) sprays the counsellors and campers down with a fire truck. No that's not a typo, we have an actual fire truck water cannon to hose everyone down!!! SO much fun!!!
Well there's plenty more fun to be had this session, check back soon for more exciting news!!
