Circle F Feud

Howdy Circle F Family,

Today the camp played a funny joke on Diana. When Diana takes her day off I (Roger) do the announcements at the meals. During the announcement before Diana came back, I asked the camp to help me with a prank. Anytime Diana say a number during her announcements we were are to scream as loud as possible. When Diana came back at lunch and we started screaming like animals, she had no idea what was happening. She thought we had gone crazy or something. Everyone had a big laugh.

The evening program this evening was the Circle F Feud. This is a game show much like the Family Feud. We pass out surveys to the campers asking them questions like: what is your favorite place at camp, what is your least favorite meal, favorite activity area, who is the dancing queen and other fun questions. We tally up the surveys and then play a game. The contestants have to guess what the top answers to the surveys are. The team that loses has to do a consequence. In the first round we had the girls vs. boys campers. The girls won and the boys had to sing "aroostasha" with crackers in their mouth. The second round pitted counselors against campers. The campers lost and had to take a pie to the face. The third round was between the girls and boys counselors. It was a close match and there had to be a tie breaker. In the end the girls won and got to smash a raw eggs on the boys counselors heads. I Love Camp...

Tomorrow (Friday), is a special day at camp. We have a rodeo practice and all camp swim in the morning. Then we start pack-out after lunch. Next, everyone gets ready for the Banquet. The Banquet is a long time tradition at Circle F. We serve a special turkey dinner and have music. After the meal awards are given by the activity directors for campers who excelled. It is an honor to receive these ribbon awards. Then we hand out the year awards. First year campers get a bandanna, second years receive a horse shoe, third years get a hat, a lasso is presented to the fourth year campers, fifth year campers get spurs, sixth year campers get a speech and can take a horse (yes a real one), fourth session for free or a cash. For campers who have been coming for more than six years they can take fourth session for free or the cash. The campers love the awards and many counselors who were campers still have their ribbons and awards. After the Banquet we have the final dance. It is the best dance of the session. We show the DVD and the slide show (both are available at check-out). There is hardly a dry eye by the end of the night.

Fantastic Wishes,
Roger and the whole gang