The Professor's Daughter: July 2013

I got to go to the summer camp for my church Young Women group again this year! This was by far my very favorite year! There were only seventeen other girls, including leaders and counselors (or YCLs), in my group, so we all got to be great friends, which made camp all the more enjoyable. Again, I'm just going to put up some pictures and captions, and leave you to try to imagine the rest! :)
J'ai été capable de aller au camp d'été pour mon église groupe de jeunes femmes, cette année encore! Ce fut de loin mon année très préférée! N'y avait que dix-sept autres filles, dont des dirigeants et des conseillers (ou YCLs), dans mon groupe, donc nous avons tous appris à être de grands amis, ce qui rendait camp d'autant plus agréable. Encore une fois, je vais juste à mettre en place des photos et des légendes, et de vous laisser essayer d'imaginer reste! :)

So here's camp...

In all its spidery glory...

And here is a really blurry picture of all the campers! (I took a picture of a picture, so it turned out like this.)

We got to go swimming on the first two days, and the rest of the days were water games that morphed into water wars. :)

Waiting for dinner

A camp delicacy is roasted starbursts. Here are step-by-step instructions for this very self-explanatory project.

Step 1: Get some starbursts.

Step 2: Skewer the starbursts with a stick that you just used to make s'mores.

Step 3: Hold them over the fire until they are hot and gooey, then eat them and try to avoid gluing your fingers together with starburst.

This is part of the challenge course. It's called the meat grinder. Our job as a group was to get all the girls from one side to the other, going over the meat grinder and making it spin. It was quite the ordeal.

Some friends got my camera while I was climbing... :)

Climbing...

This is a giant swing that starts about 43 feet up in the air and is completely man-powered (Your friends pull a rope that pulls you up in the air, where you pull a rig that disconnects you from your friends, and you free-fall, screaming your head off.) ... and probably rivals the awesomeness of Disneyland.

Fire

Chocolate pudding cone- another camp delicacy.

Buddies

On Wednesday night half of camp stayed up really late playing cards and a few other games.

We didn't have a fire that late into the night, so we tried roasting marshmallows with a lantern. It didn't work, needless to say, but the marshmallows were still tasty. :)

Some friends and I being super heroes in our towel capes after a water war.

On Thursday it rained a lot, and we eat dinner outside, on our laps, so this was a problem...

So we put our heads (in this case, our rain ponchos, actually) together and built a tent! Nice and dry!

On Thursday night we got a really good bonfire going...

And it kept going...

And then we found a huge spider (about the size of some of our hands) by the woodpile, and stopped feeding the fire logs because we didn't want the spider to get us... (In the end, one girl caught it and released it in the woods.)

And after that, the fire started to die down. Even so, we ended up staying up really late waiting for it to die, but we had fun singing and talking while we waited. :)

My computer is being funky and won't let me turn this picture right-side-up, but this is our singing refrigerator. We had it in the pavilion by camp and kept all of our food in it so that the raccoons couldn't get it. But this refrigerator was weird. It made the strangest humming noises, and it was so loud. At one point, we were singing a song, and I heard this humming in the background. For a second I thought it was someone singing the harmony, but then I realized that it was the fridge.

Weird. I know.

A friend did my hair and I wanted to see how it looked. You might notice blue streaks. We had thrown chalk-covered sponges at each other earlier that day. :)