Malia got back from girls camp this morning. She was smelly and
tired and happy about being smelly and tired. 😂 She
has kindly accepted my offer to be a guest blogger as I was definitely enjoying
my soft bed and my indoor plumbing while she was experiencing the joys of sleeping
on the ground and using a port-a-potty. (I did tell her that she lucked out
with the port-a-potty. All of my girls’ camp experiences were accompanied by
the…aroma…of an old-fashioned pit potty. 😜)
I was a little hesitant at first about Girls Camp, but after I
didn’t regret my decision at all. The drive up was pretty boring, ‘nuff said.
When we first got there, we got fed lunch, then we went to the amphitheater for
our welcoming devotional. The Stake leaders then told all the wards where we
were going for rotations, and we all headed off to our respective locations
around the camp. Our ward started off with Archery, which I super duper
enjoyed! The Archery set up was within walking distance, and so all us girls
sang a whole bunch of camp songs on the walk there (including but not limited
to: Boom Chicka Boom, Milk, Noah, The Moose Song, and Princess Pat). The bow I
started off with was really hard to pull, and so I had to have some help- After
I got pulling back the string, I did good! (I only broke one arrow…But it
wasn’t in half, It was the top fletching.) Afterwards, we went back to our camp
and had ward time. We worked on our secret sister bags, and I made a couple of
bracelets for a couple of the older girls. We went to dinner, and had our first
evening devotional. We then had a ‘Jesus Walk’ along the trail up by the old
archery station. It was dark out, and so they set up fairy lights around
paintings of Jesus. After we went back to camp, we all went to bed because we
were all so tired.
On Wednesday, we woke up, had breakfast, and went to the morning
devotional. We went to the lake (which was really just a puddle…) before lunch,
then went back to camp, and straight to lunch. After lunch, we went to the zip
line. I opted not to do the zip line, because it had broken a couple of times
previously. (It did once while we were there too.) It was still fun watching
the others girls though! Following the zip line, we went back to camp and had
ward time. One of the girls put beads in my hair, and of course the beads were
green! Green is the best color. *Nudge Nudge, Wink* After ward time, we went
off to dinner, and the evening devotional. Following the devotional, we had a
whole dance party, in which the boys from another stake, who were camping by
the archery, intruded on our party because they were silly gooses and didn’t
realize the fact that there was a road for travel, and therefore climbed down
and back up the mountain. Needless to say, none of the leaders were happy that
they intruded on our GIRLS camp. After the dance party, all the wards chose a
primary song of some sort, and we sang it to each other from our camp sites.
After this, we all went off to bed.
Thursday was the last full day we had. We woke up, and had
breakfast, as well as the morning devotional. We went to our rotations, and we
started with an obstacle course. There was a 7 foot wall…I may or may not had
maybe kind of gotten stuck, but it was okay…the other girls were really cool
about it. After that, we went to the crafting station at the pavilion. I made a
bracelet, and then went back up to camp to get my lunch. After lunch, a couple
girls and I went to the hammocks and met with a couple girls from a different
ward, and then we went and spent the rest of the afternoon at Archery again.
One girl found a lizard, and it was a little bit chunky…because it was chunky
and found at Archery, she named it “Fatness Everdeen”. We all laughed about
that… After Archery, we went back to camp and had ward time, in which we all
started packing and stuff. After dinner, we had testimony meeting, and everyone
but me and one of the leaders started crying… I felt so out of place not crying
;) The sunset during testimony meeting was amazing, and there was a rainbow on
the other side of the sky as well. There was a storm way off yonder, which we
didn’t think much about. UNTIIIIILL….That night was the first night my tent and
a few other girls decided to actually stay up and play games. And then, that
storm from way off yonder I mentioned came right on top of us, and we all had a
freak out. We all ran to the leaders cars, and finished freaking out there. In
the car I was in, we all jammed to Frozen… It was quite entertaining. After it
stopped raining, we all went to bed. It was that moment, in which my tent and I
created most of our inside jokes.
Friday morning, we woke up, finished packing, and then did camp
awards. I got the award of “Crafty Comedian”. After that, we went to our last
devotional, and went back to our camps. After checking around and packing our
last things, we got on the road headed back to the church.
It was a very very good week, but needless to say I was glad to be
back home.😁👍🏼
