Hello again, camp friends and family! As Andrea mentioned Sunday and the following days have been filled with lots of exciting activities. Sunday afternoon the campers and counselors held the county fair around the mess hall. The county fair is an activity that hasn't been done for a couple of years, but was a complete success. Each cabin came up with a booth they wanted to host with their counselors. Then, the campers alternated between working their booth and visiting other cabins' booths. Some examples of the booths' activities were hay rides, face painting, and soaking a counselor. The campers were given 24 red tickets to use at these different activities and were awarded a blue ticket if they successfully completed a booth's challenge. At the end, 3 of the blue tickets could be redeemed for 1 water balloon. Once everyone had their water balloons, a refreshing and fun water balloon fight began. Then, all the campers went back to their cabins to shower. The campers were told that there would be a presentation awaiting them and to save 1 of their tickets for admission. Once the campers were showered and brought to the mess hall, they were surprised to find out a haunted hay ride (for the younger cabins) and a haunted hike were their evening activities. The counselors had been planning this hike on the the camp trails complete with a tour guide who led them through the trails as they encountered some of camps' scariest stories coming to life and other frightening characters such as pack of zombies at the end. Once all the campers were done with their hike the general consensus seemed to be that it was one of their favorite camp activities they had ever participated in. They all had individual stories about how the hike was for them and the group they went with. After this the campers were happy to return to their beds for the night. Monday began with chapel, breakfast, cabin clean up, departments, and lunch as usual (happy belated chicken patty day, by the way!). Then, rest period and canteen were followed by airband practice for everyone but cabins 3 and 4 who headed to Tomahawk. Airband, for those who do not know, is a show that the entire camp puts on for themselves that consists of each cabin doing a different thing onstage. This could be a song, a dance, a skit, or anything else the campers come up with. Afterwards the campers got to pick between ultimate frisbee, volleyball, basketball, and ultimate frisbee. Next, campers listened to a chapel talk and went off to do their evening activities which included baking with E-Bone for 9 and 10 and heading to the haunted house for 5 and 6. Then, the campers were off to bed! Today has so far consisted of chapel, breakfast, cabin clean up, departments, lunch, and now, the campers are heading to a much needed rest period. Hopefully cabins 9 and 10 won't mind finding out that they'll have to give up rest period to spend an exciting afternoon and morning at the beautiful Tomahawk Lodge!

//Kayla