Summer Camps this year all fell early in the summer. The only camps that Alice had any interest in did not offer camps for high schoolers. = ( Emily has color guard camp all summer long, except the week of July 4th. William's camp started the week after they ended school, which meant he was already in camp during Alice's last week of school! Grace and Juliet wanted to go back to Woldumar, and did not regret it!
I dug out the waterproof digital camera* and Grace carried it with her for the week snapping pictures of their camp adventures. Each day I took one picture and will include them mixed in, in chronological order below.
So, now I'm turning the keyboard over to Grace so that she can type up her adventures day by day!
Day 1:
I took a picture of these stones because we were building a fairy house! it was destroyed before I could take a picture, but we rebuilt the dairy house the next day.
This is a cool picture of some stairs I found in the woods. I asked Juliet to stop and pose on it so she could be in the picture. the stairs were kind of covered by leaves and vines, but they were still seeable, and you could easily step on them. I also just thought they looked cool.
thus is a picture of a leaf/branch pile, and it was really big, and it was something that would catch a lot of people's eye.
this was a fallen tree that looked really cool in the sunlight, sadly most of these pictures were better in real life than they were on camera because of the light.
my friend Maya took this picture of Juliet and I the sun helped here
we called this tree the octopus tree and Maya also took this picture.
we came across this bridge and Juliet posed on it
this was such a beautiful picture from this flower.
we tried taking a picture of some ducks but our group was walking off so we panicked and took a picture of this tiny island instead.
there was something growing on this log and I thought it looked cool.
if you look at it closely you can see a heart in the sunlight spot.
i found some moss against a tree but i hurt my ankle when i was going up to it.
we were playing thicket i think it was called and me and Maya took this picture of me observing it
this was a really cool hole we found in the ground.
Day 2:
our fairy house was destroyed(again)
we rebuilt it but it did not have any more magic in the air we were all disappointed. our OG plan was to build a fair house like each day, because our first one only took like 2 hours. the fun part was that the (concrete) was mud the patio was moss and the beds and furniture were leaves. we used flowers we found as well as some wood.
GROUP PHOTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this was a REALLY steep hill that was fun to climb up.
a sand hill that we also went up. i only got sand in my shoes when Juliet put them in my shoes for no reason
this was at the top of the sand hill, along with a fence i didn't take a picture of.
there was a little spot at the bottom of these steps that you can't see and I took a picture of Juliet, Maya, and Josephine
Josephine was on this log and it was really cool cuz it was above the lake and really risky.
this was an area of the lake filled with green
we were racing and Juliet and i tied: 6s
we played at this tree, and we found a big slug on it it was so cute I pushed it is to a crack so no one would step on it.
we went canoeing and maya took a picture of me
this was a really pretty like path that Maya took a picture of she actually took all the pictures!
we saw this REALLY pretty lily
we came back and this is what our fairy house 2.0 looked like
Day 3:
GROUP PHOTO!!!!!!!!!!
this is like a really cool log covered in yellow mushrooms and i thought it looked cool.
we built a fort in the woods, and this is how it turned out, we had limited time though
day 4:
we saw this rock tree thing and i looked really cool to me
we went to the lake and spent some time there exploring.
Julliet asked me to take a picture of her here on the tall mountain.
we found another bridge and someone spotted a snake with a fish in it's mouth! I tried taking a video but didn't get the snake in.
we found this bench it said, " two sisters watching" and since me and Juliet were both there, we had Maya take a picture. we were not sitting on it though cuz it was wet
Day 5:
On Day 5, Grace was too busy having fun to take pictures, so only my 'before camp' picture is here to document these two on their final day of fun! Both of them loved camp so much they asked if they could join their friends for another week later in the summer, but when I looked at the registration page, that week is 'waitlisted.' = ( Since Emily never got bumped from the waitlist, I'm thinking that it would be unlikely that both of them would be able to move up, and it would be so unfair for only one of them to get to go.
I think that they will keep fond memories of camp for years to come!
later days
*when I bought this camera for our great wolf lodge trip (that was postponed thanks to covid) it was around $40, and I struggled to splurge on it. We've now used it enough that I'm glad that I bought it, and it's now been long enough that digital cameras are back en vogue!!! ; )
