The Summer Has Begun

It's finally here! The counselors had been anxiously awaiting the campers arrival for a week as we did work projects around camp and prepared it for the long summer ahead. Before we knew it, it was opening day on Sunday, and it was quite a success. The counselors woke up, attended mass in the chapel, had breakfast, and went to the cabins to help campers settle in from 11am to 4pm as they arrived. Afterwards, the campers and their counselors discussed cabin rules and made a list of the campers' favorite activities. Next, the campers could pick of their favorite activity (such as volleyball, basketball, or soccer) to play until dinner time. Then, we all met in the chapel to go over other camp rules and introduce the counselors and staff. After that, the cabins split up to do night time actives. The older cabins did either stargazing on the dock or a mess hall social. The 4 youngest cabins did games in the pavilion (including camp favorites such as chubby bunny). By then, even after only half a day, the campers were more then ready for showers and sleep.

Today was the first "real" day of camp. The campers woke up bright and early, attended mass, had breakfast, and went back to their cabins to get them perfectly clean for cabin inspection (Fr. Johnson and head counselor Joe check each cabin, score them, and award the cabin with the highest score "honor cabin"). Then, the cabin joined the other cabins they were assigned with and went to 3 of the 5 departments. Next was lunch, the always refreshing rest period, canteen (today it was pretzels), and then each cabin went to 1 more department. Afterwards, the cabins were assigned to an afternoon activity(such as a water balloon fight, Italian golf, ropes courses, and football). This was followed by dinner, after dinner activities (boomball, kickball, or ultimate frisbee), chapel time to learn the songs for mass, and a nighttime activity(night swim, ice cream social, star gazing, or man hunt in the canyon). By then, the campers went right to bed looking forward to the upcoming weeks!

// Kayla

P.S. Don't forget to check out the first of this summer's pictures (on the right)!