Can this all happen in one day????

Hello families and friends,
When we say at camp that a day at camp is like a week in the "real" world, we are not kidding. Even after 16 summers, I am astonished at how much we can pack in a day. We always think that a Sunday without a field trip will be nice and relaxing. Hey, a director can dream can't they! Anyway, we started with each cabin having a picnic breakfast at their cabin. The weather was beautiful and everything seemed so peaceful. Of course, I was lulled into a false sense of...this is going to be a nice quiet day. Our first visit was nurse Joy filling us in on the latest at the infirmary. Nothing out of the ordinary for camp...whew! And away she went to deliver morning meds to each cabin. The administration tries to talk about the happenings and plans for the day while answering phones, questions from campers and counselors. On Sundays, the cabins do a big clean up. They clean out their trunks, change sheets, and do a good cleaning of the cabin. At 10:30 Mike gave a longer morning thought about positive thinking and how it can affect your life and make it so much better. Also, stressing the importance of reacting to situations with a positive attitude instead of getting angry. You feel soooo much better when all is said and done and you may change the way others feel as well. Great message for all of us! All of that and an all camp clean up by 11:00. WATER BATTLE was on!! There was water hoses, water guns, water balloons, buckets of water and a whole lot of mud! The team who has one dry person at the end, wins. Off to general swim to get all the mud off before lunch. After lunch it was siesta. While the campers rested Devin was busy getting events ready for Carnival for the afternoon. We had a huge water slide, a bounce house and a giant double slip and slide. Set up on the basketball court was softball throw, putting contest, basketball throw, bean bag toss, archery and drawing with sidewalk chalk. There was so much to do. The campers had a blast.
It was pizza night for dinner and that caused all kinds of excitement. Add in wind, thunder, lightning, pouring rain and you end up with some amazing singing after dinner. The oldest boys lead everyone in the best version of "John Jacob Jinglehimer Smit" you ever heard. It was so much fun. We were stuck in the Lasso Lodge and having the most spontaneous good time. I even had ice water dumped on my head. All in good fun of course.(I will get even) We finally had to use the laundry van to transport kids to the Round up for our Sunday night movie. You can't believe how excited they were about riding in the van. Camp, you just can't explain it!!! We are having such a fantastic time. I hope you are too. Thanks for sharing your children with us.
Your happy camp mom,
Diana