On a more positive note

My last post was just slightly less than positive so on this post, I am going to focus on the things that I am grateful for this session. I realized that I had a lot to be grateful for on Sunday night when I started talking to one of my campers and ended up talking about sharks and Discovery Channel for about 45 minutes during shower time. It always amazes me how smart my campers can be. Flash back to 1st session. A Trailblazer at the age of 6 was an incredible artist. He drew all sorts of animals from memory. I started to talk to him about the animals that he was drawing and he proceeded to inform all about each of them. In the past, he was even able to tell some zookeepers information that they did not know. He has visited many zoos and ranks the St. Louis Zoo as one of his favorites with the San Diego Zoo. But the St. Louis Zoo is free. Anyway that talk made me realize that I should start being grateful. So here it goes.

My whole cabin gets along with each other.
I got to talk with a camper about sharks.
I got to play sharks and minnows with 7 staff and 4 cabins in the lap pool.
I swam a 50 underwater in my first attempt (my goal is a 75 by the end of the session).
I have a fan that points at my bed and makes me actually feel cool by about 4 in the morning.
I swam my first lifeguard swim in 5 years.
I don't have to run lifeguard swims anymore.
Ashley came and sat at my table so that I could get another pb and j while my hostess was in the office.

I am sure that there are a lot more but that is just a start. So everything is going well at camp. Tomorrow is trip day, the second full day of camp and we are already on trips. Then one more day of scheduled activities, one and a half days of choice, Green and White Swim Meet, and a play, then on to Family Camp.