5th Session

This session started out hot. So hot that even the pools were not refreshing anymore. So on Monday, I tried to convince my campers that it would be more fun and more refreshing to have a water fight in the basement of our cabin than go swimming in the hot pools. They all wanted to go swimming, so as they were getting ready, I started the water fight. I filled a trash can with cold water and 4 splash bombs. As they were getting ready, I started tossing water bombs. It did not take long for the water fight to kick into full gear. It lasted for about 10 minutes before they remembered that they wanted to go to free swim. The water fight was far more refreshing then the pool. Oh well.

The next day was trip day. I led the fish trip as usual when I am at camp. Not enough staff wanted to go crawdad hunting so I got to go. This is pretty unusual. So Mark and I went crawdad hunting with the campers. On the way down, Mark and I witnessed something that neither of us had ever seen before, we watched a spider poop. It was big news for us. Once we got to the creek, the kids started hunting with nets. I found a stick with a 'y' in it and broke it down to a crawdad hunting stick. I caught four crawdads this way and taught Mark how to use a stick to catch crawdads. I also did biology theater for the kids. I took two crawdads, one in each hand, and had them talk to each other. They like to talk about what they ate, how they got caught, what eats them, and one even got a postcard from his cousin, Lolly the lobster. It was exciting times. The rest of the day was spent resting, swimming, and sliding. Then it was time for dinner and me to become PD for the night. I worked on evening notes, copied schedules, and kicked little boys out of the bathroom. It was an eventful night. Then I got to spend an hour in the office to answer any phone calls. When I made it back to the PDs office to finish up the work, a storm rolls in and kills the power. So I ended up leaving the PDs office without turning off any of the lights because I did not know where they were. Oh well. I walked back in the rain and lightning. All the way back I could not help but think about how perfect of a setting it would have been for a horror movie. The lightning was so bright that it seemed like day and then it would be pitch black again. About half way home, the electricity came back on. I did not go back to the office to turn off the lights.

Wednesday was a swim-line day. I had swimming all day long. This summer we created a new course called the CedarS Safety Course. It involves life jacket skills and throwing assists. The whole course was supposed to take two days so that specialty camps would have something to pass during swim lessons. Oops. It only takes about 20 minutes. Darn what should I do with the rest of that time, hmm, free swim. So I played lots of sharks and minnows and hunt for red october.