Of Captain's and Treasure and Christ, Oh My!

Nov. 6, 2007

Back from Camp: Part 1.

Alright, I'm back! Wooh. The weekend was a long one, and yet it felt so short. You want to know what I did? Well, I'll tell you.

Alright, so Friday we all piled into our new, huge, fifteen passenger van. There were twelve of us in there in all, and then another smaller car with the boys. So, there was sixteen of us going out to this camp. Alright, so, it was about a two and a half hour trip to Iowa, and then another half hour until we got to the camp grounds. We stopped on the way for Dairy Queen, in which I got some shrimp and found out that I am allergic to it. I got a rash on my arm, my nose was stuffed, and I kept sneezing. *Sighs*

Alright, so we got there about eleven, registered and got our name tags, then made our way to the chapel for worship. It was freezing out! I mean, maybe thirty degrees. NOT FUN! The weekend was themed 'Thirsty', based off of John and the verse wher Jesus talks about being the 'water of life.'

Chapel was interesting. We went through the rules, sang a bunch of songs, listened to a short talk and then a skit, and then were sent to our cabins for 'devo' time and bed. I was very tired, but having not brought a sleeping bag, woke up at least five times, my small wool blanket having fallen off the bed...and me. And then one time I felt sick, my throat hurt, and I needed some water...but there was no water bottle with me and I didn't want to turn on the sink. (The sink wasn't in the bathroom.)

The next morning we got up, headed for a couple songs in the chapel, then ate breakfast. The food there was REALLY good! I mean, very amazingly good. You'd think we had cafeteria food? We didn't. We had waffle sticks, bacon, sausages, yogurt, fruit, and cranberry juice. Yuuuum!

After that we headed to chapel, worshiped more, listened to another talk, sang a bunch of songs...(Some in which we had to jump up and down. Not good when you just ate a meal, lol.) After that we had small group time, where we all got together, our cabin, and talked about what the message was. Let me tell you, there were only about three girls who talked. The rest were silent, and one of them looked...depressed. And yes, I was one of the ones who talked. =D

After that we took some pictures, etc etc, then had lunch. Mmm. Let me see if I can remember what we had. Oh yeah! Chili dogs or corn dogs, your pick, salad, chocolate milk or white milk, and fruit again. It was really fun. We talked and such, the team who ran the whole program came and talked to you, and it was just nice.

After that we have two hours of free time, to do whatever you wanted. The camp store was open, where you could buy candy, and then there was 'foofball' (Typo. It was sooo funny when Peter said that. lol Peter was one of the guys running it. He's pretty cool.), and a bunch of other activities...like making friendship bracelets. I spent the whole time writing in my notebook, drinking my soda, until my youth pastor came by, saw what I was doing, deemed that it could wait until later, and then dragged me off to do some pictures. lol

After that was 'Hydropalooza!' This was two hours of fun and games, that had to do with water, and lots of it. We were split up into eight groups, then put against another group. (I was in group A.) So it was H against Y, D against R, A against T, and E against D2. (It spells HYDRATED2! lol)

The first game we played was dodgeball. You know how that works. Except the leader was on the side, holding two squirt guns, then squirted us during the entire game at random points. We lost. *Sighs*

The next one was really fun! We were given various items, (ex: square of cardboard, five pieces of tape, straws, popscicle sticks, pipe cleaners, and three pieces of paper.) The object was the build the highest tower you could, each person getting thirty seconds to work on it before cycling to the next job. On the other hand, there was two buckets. One was filled with water, the other empty. You had two tangs, a rag, and a cup. You and one other person would run over, you'd dip the cloth into the water, than run over, the cup under so that you wouldn't loose any water, then squeeze the rag and cup into the other bucket. You wanted to get as much water into the bucket as you could, the other team racing against you. Then, once time was up you'd set you tower in the water. The highest tower won. (We won!!)

Then we moved on to a really fun one! It was in the kitchen. All the tables were set up, and the idea was to jump over the benches, get to the end and grab a squirt gun, then slip under the table and start crawling army style to the front, where you had to knock down two army men with the water only. It was really fun, my pants got dirty, but it was worth it! (I got a little wet too. The guns leaked all over the floor.) We tied! lol So, next and last is the tie breaker, no?

The next and last game was in the chapel. We all stood in a line, the center isle empty. The object of the game was to have the spoon, fill it with as many rocks as you could, then pass it down the line to the person at the end. That person would dump the spoon and rocks into the water, then run to the front and it would start all over again. Easy, right? Well, here's the catch. There were uno cards on the chair. You'd pick up a card, and whatever number was on there? That's how many rocks you were allowed for that spoon full. There was also a reverse card, which meant you had to pass the spoon behind you backs, and a draw two card, which mean you got two numbers instead of one. If you dropped the rocks, those stayed on the floor. They were 'poison'. We lost, unfortunately, but had a great time!

Wooow. Look how much I've posted. And there's lots more. I'll have to make this update into two separate ones. xD

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Hullo! My name is Anna. I am fifteen years old, and this blog is all about what happens to me every day...or around that. lol I love Pirates, National Treasure, and Lord of the Rings...so my blog is themed around those three as well as events coming up like school work and other things. Enjoy!