Girls' Camp

Last week I spent the week at Girls' Camp. It started Monday when the High Adventure girls go up a day early. We spent the day at Calloway Gardens, a beautiful resort and golf course with the 4th year girls and the JC's. (Junior Counselors) It was 97 degrees and of course, humid. We rented bikes and drove through the trails on a prepared treasure hunt. It really was a fun activity for the girls, just toooooo hot. I was seriously wiped at by the end of the day. We spent some time at the beach/lake after biking and then around dinnertime we drove up to our campsite, Pine Mountain. This is an area in Pine Mountain National Forest. Theodore Roosevelt hung out in this area because it had therapeutic hot springs that he used to use. We moved into our cabins and got ready for the rest of the girls to come up the following morning. It's always fun the first day with just the older girls. They're definitely different than the first years! Camp proceeded without much incident the rest of the week--we went home Friday morning. The girls got along great and there really wasn't any of the typical girls' camp drama. We have some great girls. There was probably more drama going on with the stake leaders than with the girls. They did have an issue Wed. when there was no water/showers or toilets for almost 24 hours. They almost sent the girls home early, but they finally got it up and running. The girls laughed about learning how to go to the bathroom in the woods! That just happened to be the day that I went home. I usually plan to go home midweek and then come back the following day. It helps me and my family! I have great leaders that take turns coming and going. We had to have four chaperones sleeping at camp each day and it all worked out. It was a great week and we're done with camp for another year! Woohoo!














Here I am with my good friend, Michelle. I'm looking a little rough!















These are the 4th year and JC's before we left the church on our adventure. Notice all the headbands they are wearing? We made these for the girls to wear. We called ourselves the Suwanee band of sisters. I had them recite the Band of Sister's camp statement before we left which was a pledge of camp behavior and how they would treat their fellow campers and leaders. We do something like this every year to help remind them to be NICE! It was cute how they wore the headbands all week and it really banded our ward together.