Well, it is official, going to camp really was “the best week of the year”!  I have been thinking a lot about how to sum up such a crazy week filled with so much fun and emotion, and fortunately 9News started doing it for me.  Check it out!

This article was made during the second week (I did the first) but it looks like these kids had as much spirit and heart as ours did.   I was a companion on the green team, which was clearly the best team (although we didn’t have as clever of cheers as the yellow team: Chinchilla-Yella!)

My camper was a sibling who had been through lots in her time.  She has a great personality though- honest, kind, and a little competitive.  Our week was filled with delights, including mini golf, a zip line, a high ropes course and a low one, mafia, signs, color wars, boat races, and a seriously tear-jerking poetry workshop.  It was a wonderful time acting like a kid again at times, but also a great learning experience in terms of how kids work and how to be persuasive with them.  Everyone at camp was having so much fun that it was nearly impossible to tell who was sick and who was well- everyone was just a caring, optimistic human that week.  I danced so vigorously that my triceps were sore after the dance party.  It was sad.  Overall though, it was a great experience, and I can’t wait for next year!

Here are a few pics that I have:

The boat race (boats made of wood, duct tape, styrofoam, milk jugs, engineered by 8-year-olds)

Me on the power pole (yeah conquering fear of heights!)

View from Camp

Companions with grills before singing some Flowrider

Some paddle boat on the lake