Camp memories
So, I was sitting in the car on the way to CPR this morning, and I was just thinking about camp memories. I have so many of them. More than I can remember, actually.......funny, i know. These are in no particular order:
I remember my third time at camp when I had a broken arm. I remember sitting on my bunk the year before and writing a post card to my Grandma. I wrote too big, and didn't have a place to put the zip code, so my counselor helped me. I remember, in middle school, watching the passion walk. I remember Otis, the hermaphroditic goat that scratched its butt on the girls cabin porch. The wars between homestead and challengers. Homestead. paying homage to the toilet seat after I took it out of the homestead latrine. Climbing the wall a few months after it was put up. A work weekend with the director's dog running around everywhere. Being on the roof of a cabin putting on shingles. Hippo song. Creek stomping at homestead. Not actually creek stomping, but swimming all the way back in camp from homestead. Night Games. Sarah, my cousin, and *insert forgotten name here* playing chess at homestead. Liz and her frog socks. Meeting my Hubby. Making smores over a candle in the craft cabin. Night swim on a weekend with inflateable aligators. Movie bible study. Telling my Big G I was gay. SIT. Ice cream cake in the staff lounge with the other SITs. Sanitation bags at homestead. The tombstone/grave along the path. The Maze with Jim. Jim with a mohawk known as "Nature Boy". Knitting with Grandma Bev. Patty saving pudding tarts for me since I was gonna be on outpost. Dabbler 06. Cedar Point. Confessing my love for a straight man. Chapel in the Pines. Getting hit in the balls with a hackey sack by one of Joe's campers, when asked which one, I responded "both of them". Sitting on the porch of cabin 14 as an SIT talking to Jim at night. Eddie at spirit worship. Taking the rocks off the rock wall. Jello eating contest. The last night of '07 with running around. Having a camper figure out I was gay and it freaking me the heck out. Sarah from mowana and I planning bible study during inposting at SRCB. Challengers with challenges every single meal. Having my challengers be the first group I wouldn't trust fall onto. "crush" on Ryan from Luther. Playing 'dress' up at Salvation Army. Someone stealing 30 scones from the kitchen and being banned from entering. Being asked to read at hubby's wedding. Camo makeup. Using my cell phone at night. Breaking into the kitchen on the last night of campers with nick and renae and eating a lot. Key Lime eating contest on outreach. Schluffing on the 4th of July. Mac & Cheese at the Gatehouse with Julie, John, and Claire. Spin the bottle for bible study. *Not* getting Sr. High. Climbing big bertha with Julie, then a year later, with Renae. Sitting up bonding with Lisa on the first week of outposting. Bonding with Lisa in the Craft Cabin for cleaning. The dogs in Prebie. Writing Spirit worship for Dabbler. bonding with renae. Making carol tear up when I gave her a staff shirt for free. Malachi Malachi Malachi Malachi... Ethan thinking the bag of snack was all for him. Lobster Clawing up the back of the wall. Climbing with David at Vertical Adventures. Renae and my "discovery" of all the places we've never been before. Stella putting one of her braids in my hair. Cranberry/chocolate jello/pudding. The storm where two fronts collided over the field, and loss of power. Then eating by candle light in the lodge. Stephanie with the rabbits. Brio and the half chicken. Amanda, cookie dough, shep fold, and BS planning. Dresses at Salvation Army, OCD dish stacking at Applebees.
I remember my third time at camp when I had a broken arm. I remember sitting on my bunk the year before and writing a post card to my Grandma. I wrote too big, and didn't have a place to put the zip code, so my counselor helped me. I remember, in middle school, watching the passion walk. I remember Otis, the hermaphroditic goat that scratched its butt on the girls cabin porch. The wars between homestead and challengers. Homestead. paying homage to the toilet seat after I took it out of the homestead latrine. Climbing the wall a few months after it was put up. A work weekend with the director's dog running around everywhere. Being on the roof of a cabin putting on shingles. Hippo song. Creek stomping at homestead. Not actually creek stomping, but swimming all the way back in camp from homestead. Night Games. Sarah, my cousin, and *insert forgotten name here* playing chess at homestead. Liz and her frog socks. Meeting my Hubby. Making smores over a candle in the craft cabin. Night swim on a weekend with inflateable aligators. Movie bible study. Telling my Big G I was gay. SIT. Ice cream cake in the staff lounge with the other SITs. Sanitation bags at homestead. The tombstone/grave along the path. The Maze with Jim. Jim with a mohawk known as "Nature Boy". Knitting with Grandma Bev. Patty saving pudding tarts for me since I was gonna be on outpost. Dabbler 06. Cedar Point. Confessing my love for a straight man. Chapel in the Pines. Getting hit in the balls with a hackey sack by one of Joe's campers, when asked which one, I responded "both of them". Sitting on the porch of cabin 14 as an SIT talking to Jim at night. Eddie at spirit worship. Taking the rocks off the rock wall. Jello eating contest. The last night of '07 with running around. Having a camper figure out I was gay and it freaking me the heck out. Sarah from mowana and I planning bible study during inposting at SRCB. Challengers with challenges every single meal. Having my challengers be the first group I wouldn't trust fall onto. "crush" on Ryan from Luther. Playing 'dress' up at Salvation Army. Someone stealing 30 scones from the kitchen and being banned from entering. Being asked to read at hubby's wedding. Camo makeup. Using my cell phone at night. Breaking into the kitchen on the last night of campers with nick and renae and eating a lot. Key Lime eating contest on outreach. Schluffing on the 4th of July. Mac & Cheese at the Gatehouse with Julie, John, and Claire. Spin the bottle for bible study. *Not* getting Sr. High. Climbing big bertha with Julie, then a year later, with Renae. Sitting up bonding with Lisa on the first week of outposting. Bonding with Lisa in the Craft Cabin for cleaning. The dogs in Prebie. Writing Spirit worship for Dabbler. bonding with renae. Making carol tear up when I gave her a staff shirt for free. Malachi Malachi Malachi Malachi... Ethan thinking the bag of snack was all for him. Lobster Clawing up the back of the wall. Climbing with David at Vertical Adventures. Renae and my "discovery" of all the places we've never been before. Stella putting one of her braids in my hair. Cranberry/chocolate jello/pudding. The storm where two fronts collided over the field, and loss of power. Then eating by candle light in the lodge. Stephanie with the rabbits. Brio and the half chicken. Amanda, cookie dough, shep fold, and BS planning. Dresses at Salvation Army, OCD dish stacking at Applebees.