Greetings from Discovery Camp! (Monday)

MONDAY

This morning we started the day with biscuits and vegetarian gravy as the main course for breakfast. After breakfast the girl counselors raised the flags and then all of the campers went off to camp council.

Pastor Dante Marruffo blessed all of us by joining us for our morning worship, which was followed by morning activity rotations and classes.  I spent the morning with our campers who are taking the Indian Camp activity, and we taught them a few games, did a craft, and went on a test hike around camp.

After mail call we went to lunch, which was a full salad bar, fruit, mashed potatoes, corn, Swiss Steaks, and a cheesecake pudding for dessert. During rest period some of the boys went out onto the field to play soccer while most of the other campers went back to their cabins for rest period.

We had a mandatory fire drill at 2:40 pm, which lasted for about 10 minutes before we could dismiss the campers to their afternoon activities. The first group we dismissed was the group that went to the Lake Hemet Waterpark. All of the girls who signed-up online were invited, and six decided to go this afternoon (two declined). They went about five minutes down the road and spent the afternoon rotation period away from camp. I spoke to all of them when they returned and I think it was a pretty big success.

On Thursday afternoon we're going to take the boys who signed up online for the Waterpark, and also invite the other girls who signed up but decided to do their cabin rotation instead.

The afternoon activities were interrupted briefly by rain for about 15 minutes, but it passed fairly quickly and we were all able to resume having fun before 4:00 pm. At 5:10 pm we all played a big group game on the field (Big Event) and several of the cabin racked up point for our Ultimate Cabin competition.

Dinner today was a full salad bar, fruit, tacos (build-your-own), with all of the fixings. It took a little longer than usual for all of the cabins to eat their dinner, but it is a little more challenging for 8-10 year old campers to design their own dinner.

After dinner we had a bit of free time before flag lowering and the evening program at 8:00 pm. Tonight we all went to the fort to watch a play before heading back to cabins to get ready for bed. The Indian Campers had their first feather challenge tonight, a maze of chairs that they had to navigate while blind-folded. All of the Indian Camper successfully made it through the maze and earned their first feather. I really thought a few of them might want to quit, but they all helped each other out to complete the challenge. It's really incredible how close these campers can get in such a short period of time.

That's all the news from camp. Some parents asked for personal updates, and the first ones will be going out tomorrow.

Writing from PSR Camp,

-Jeremy

Assistant Director

Evening Program

Evening Program