Girls Camp 2009!

I'm a little late at posting this....considering camp was 3 weeks ago, but I can finally say, I am recovered. :)  I have been the camp director for the last 3 years.  This year is my final year and so I decided to go out with a BANG!  We got permission from the bishopric to go to Moab and raft the Colorado River.  A high adventure camp was what we wanted the girls to experience...and it turned out a little more high adventure then I wanted, but everyone came home alive and in one piece.  

We arrived on Wednesday and after setting up camp we let the girls have a free day.  We had crafts and games and the campground had a pond that they could swim in.  On Thursday we woke up and did a day long trip on the river.  The river was higher then they thought it would be and so the rapid were a bit more intense then we expected.  We did have one boat capsize...luckily it was full of mostly leaders, but it did have two little timid 12 year olds in it. We did have one leader get wacked in the face with the oar as she went overboard and had a swollen nose and a couple black eyes for a few days.  

After we arrived back at camp after the river trip....a huge storm rolled in and it poured.  We had a huge tent that all the girls were sleeping in, and it leaked.   After $150 in tarps and $30 at the laundromat, everyone was happy and dry again. 

My boat on the river.  I was on the safe boat, meaning we were the first boat through the rapids so that when other boats came through, if they flipped we were there to pull the people out of the water..this also mean that we didn't hit the big rapids. This picture is of the small rapids....and looking at the picture, they look big to me.

I am know to the girls as the "water nymph".  I am the one that starts the water fight every year.  I'm the one that gets drenched...along with my partner in crime, the YW president Lareen.  It helps to be good friends with the YW president when you are the camp director.  It makes my life so much easier to have her on my side with planning camp, and also with the practical jokes and water fights.  I started the above water fight with buckets of water and hoses. No one stayed dry.  I even picked up my assistant camp director and carried her into the fight because she was determined to stay dry.  I also started an egg fight...not a good idea when it's hot outside...but at least we had showers!

The girls had a great time.  I love this calling and am sad that it's over.  Even though it's a lot of hard work, it's so worth it!