A really good day.....

As a child I only went away to camp 3 times, but I went to day camp several years for girl scouts.. I still faintly hear 100+ little girls singing on top of their lungs..... Girl scout camp, girl scout camp, the leaders that they give you they say are mighty fine, but when they take their makeup off they look like Frankenstein. Oh I don't wanna go to girl scout camp..... ~sigh~ those were the days....
Well, I relived a small piece of an old fashioned camp today........

Aaron and Chris's church (also where my Aunt Rebecca, Uncle Rick, and Chelsie goes) had their annual youth day today at a local camp that used to belong to the YMCA. I heard the church now owns the camp. The service was in the "mess hall" and afterwards there was a cookout/pitch in lunch.

After we ate, the older people left, but the younger ones stayed to play volleyball, kickball, baseball, archery or they went boating (was too far away to tell if they were rowboats or canoes) or hiking the trails. It felt like a lazy relaxed day at camp.

Aaron and my cousin Heath used to go to day camp there, and I saw the pond that they got "stuck" in when they were little (8 years old? 9?) They went boating, and panicked because they were in the middle of this pond and couldn't get to shore. They thought the shore was MILES away. In truth, you could swim one side to the other without any problems. I had a good laugh at that story. Aaron claims it has "shrunk" since then. Yeah, OK.I believe you... NOT...

After taking a long hike, we headed to Aunt Rebecca's house. My cousin Heath's daughter, Chelsie, and my cousin Tracey's daughter, Lauren, had spent the night with Rebecca. So, when we got back to Rebecca's house, Chelsie and Lauren put on swimsuits and was using the water hose as they jumped on the trampoline.
I laughed so hard tears were rolling when Chelsie asked Rebecca to bring her some shampoo, conditioner, and body wash.... Yes, you read that right. They took showers (with their suits on) outside on the trampoline.

Once they were dry, we headed in for homemade snow cones while Aunt Rebecca made a pizza (Not frozen). After supper the girls talked Rebecca and I into a game of badminton. We played and lost three games. The girls won all three, and they've NEVER played before. I kept thinking how fun it would be to get all the cousins out for a cookout and a badminton game.

With close to 5 acres of land and being WAY out in the country, their yard is HUGE and so peaceful. There is a woods on their property, and you can watch deer stroll across the yard from their kitchen window. I told my aunt that I could just come over just to sit on their front porch or their back deck. With or without them home. LOL...

I am now pleasantly exhausted, and think I'll turn in early tonight....

Know any camp lullabies???