2nd day of Girl's Camp

I woke up feeling a whole lot better. However, I was still a little light headed and my stomach was still upset.  So I took some stomach med's.
We cooked breakfast and ate. While some people cleaned up, we cleaned out tents and took them down and refilled the trailer.  Then we had a devotional and alone time to read the scriptures and write in journals.
We then drove a short way to a trail to start our race again.  The girls hiked for awhile and then came upon a first aid station that they had to treat the injured in order to go on.  I was in charge of this. But since I wasn't feeling the greatest, sent the first aid items and instructions ahead with another leader.  They had to treat leaders for Shock, snake bite, broken arm, severe bleeding, and heat exhaustion.  I was told that the girls did a great job and that the leaders acted out their parts very well and hilarious!  The girls then got their next clue and hiked to the Minatonka cave.  We had reserved a tour and they showed up early, so we ate lunch while we waited.  The tour throughout the cave was amazing.  While inside the Bishop talked about sharing our light and each girl received their own candle and got it lit. They had to hold the cold iron rod in the dark to find their way out (okay not all of the way out but long enough their hands were pretty cold. They then hiked back down to the cars where we then took them took get yummy raspberry shakes.
We then headed to the cabin in Grace Idaho.  It was only 45 miles away but it took us over 2 hours to get there.  Yes, we got lost and had to turn around a few times and back track. After Sister Ship stopped and asked the second local directions, the  sweet lady climbed in her car and took us there.  Everyone was happy to be there.  We then unloaded the trailer yet again and settle ourselves in.Yes, we ate dinner late again, missed doing the skits that night but had fun playing games past 1 a.m. in the morning.
The cabin had 3 bathrooms and so we all drew numbers for when we got to shower off. After the day at the lake it felt nice.

Girls Camp

Yes, Paige and I survived girls camp this year(me,just barely).
Girls camp was a blast.  We had ward girls camp this year which meant we could go when and where we wanted too.  The theme for this years camp was"Choose to shine in your amazing race".  The leaders put together activities for the girls to do that were around the theme and the T.v. show-The amazing race.

We meet at 5:45 A.M. that is

why it is dark outside. The great Relief Society and put a yummy send off Breakfast together for us.

We then talk about 100 years of girls camp-a cake with service opportunities-candles!

Each girl received their own backpack filled with goodies and a bandana for the team they would be on.

 And we were off....

 We spent one day and night at Bear lake.  For the race activities, the girls had to read a compass and find posts that spelled a word ( each team was different) and come and get their next clue for the next activity.  They then had to come to me and learn how to tie two kind of knots and learn how to  lash. When they passed them off they got another clue..telling them to lash swim noodles together to make a raft. One person had to ride it and the rest of the team had to have a hold of it.  They had to find their way out to a tall post that had the last clue of the day on it- Find the mat.

The girls where then free to have fun.  We rented a speed boat, paddle boat and a water trike. We also had a few rafts and a canoe.  The canoe is a whole story in it's self.
We then cleaned up and went to a camp ground and unpacked, set up tents and made dinner. We were behind schedule and din't eat until about 8 p.m..
However, I wasn't feeling wetland went and lied down. About 1/2 later I was feeling horrible and asked for a blessing. The great Bishop and his councilor gave me one. I was nauseous and very dizzy. Also had the chills. Everyone thought I had heat stroke- I don't! I drank a lot of water while at the beach and stayed in the shade most of the time.  A lot of the girls got burned, I didn't.
Because I was ill, I missed the Faith walk that some of the leaders had put together for the girls.  I heard it was very spiritual.  The girls didn't make it back to camp until around midnight. The leaders, even later than that. *clean up duty for everything they had set up earlier.*

Day 2

Parker's new look

Parker has been complaining for a while now that he can't see things that are kind of far away.  When he asked me during church if I could read the hymn numbers, I could, he couldn't, I decided to take him to the optometrist. Guess what? He needs glasses. He choose the frames he wanted and only had to wait 5 days to pick them up.  I am very impressed with him remembering to wear them so far. Of course it has only been about 4 days but he never forgets to put them on.

Parker also earned hi Wolf in cub scouts this week. Way to go Parker.