Medieval Times makes way for Mardi Gras

It's already week 10! WHAT?!?!?! I can't even believe it. Last week was one of our most popular themes, Medieval Times. We saw alot of people dressed up on Friday and at our Thursday night campfire we covered some counselors in foil and made them into knights in shining armor and everyone who wanted to got to act in a medieval story complete with costumes after dinner. Despite a rainy night our last sleepover was also a success, the girls spent the night in either Lakeside or the PAC and had snacks and watched movies together. It may not have been a night under the stars, but everyone definitely had a great time.

Our Friday camp event was the ever popular counselor jousting match. I jousted with Fish for the 3rd year in a row and I actually won! I used some quick moving dives and flutter feet (as Jaxx called it) to secure the victory. Last year Fish took the title and the year before that we tied in overtime. I wonder what will happen next time we joust? We are now tied in the tournament. It was very funny to watch the counselors with their foam swords and paper rings tied to their ankles and arms trying to out joust each other. The campers were cheering and laughing the whole time.

Thursday was also my birthday! Thank you to all the campers who told me happy birthday what felt like 100s of times that day. I felt so happy and good to be part of Camp Sacajawea. The kids who come here are really so fun and loving, it's a pleasure to work with them.

This week, among my regular jobs, I am also the golf counselor. I am accompanying the girls to the Twin Brook Golf Center and keeping my eyes out and keeping the girls safe and watched for while the golf pros teach them the game of golf. Today we learned some of the history of golf, golf ettiquette, how to be safe on the course, the types of clubs, the parts of a course, and of course we spent a long while at the driving range working on our swing. Each girl got individualized instruction from the golf pros and by the end of the day I definitely saw marked improvement in everyone's swing. Everyone even earned a non-permanent tattoo from their gold pros due to their superb golf ettiquette tht they showed on their first day. I'm sure we'll be earning lots of tattoos this week.

I'll try and get onto the computer again to update you further on this last week at camp. Hopefully Shutterbug will be able to post the pictures I took of the awesome dragons the units made during medieval week :)

another week over?

Week 8 came and went. Sacajawea Olympic week was really successful. Volleyball camp was led by our new sports camp volleyball specialist Takihara and the girls really got into the game. Maybe you'll be seeing some of our volleyball girls in the Olympics competing for Team USA some day! Gary Auerbach of the Spinning Bees came in and spent all day Thursday with us. He had a session with each unit of campers and taught them all some freestyle frisbee tricks. He even treated us to a unique show at the Thursday night campfire.

Our counselors continued their camp training on Tuesday with a visit from Steve Maguire. After our 3 hour session with him everyone was feeling renewed about finishing out the summer with just as much vigor that we started with. He taught us some new games and techniques that the girls and boys will be able to enjoy the rest of this summer and of course summers to come.

Thursday night dinner was also really exciting because we got to each Chinese food in honor of the summer games in Beijing. The girls really enjoyed the food and we especially enjoyed the leftovers we got to pack into our lunches for the next morning :)

Finally our camp event was also a success. The campers and counselors competed in the Sacajawea Olympics and receiving the gold medal was Eagles Nest, the silver went to Smoke Rise and the bronze went to Indian Pipes. Congratulations on a job well done! See you next week :)

Week 5 Photos and Week 7 in review

3 Night Overnight camp wet so well! Despite the mosquitos and the heat we managed to have a fantastic time. The girls had a chance to do so many activities since they were at camp for so much more time. They even had a chance to ride our zipline! We cooked for ourselves, swam a couple of times a day, made t-shirts and bags, went to the Trading Post, saw a police dog demonstration, when inside a Smoke house, boated, learned everykind of friendship bracelet imaginable, learned how to clean up after ourselves (amazing right!?), and even wrote our own camp songs. I hope we get to run another week like this next year. Girls who attended please tell us what you enjoyed about this week!

Zip lining!

The girls of Deer Rn f 3 Night Overnight! We survived!

Working together on the Challenge Course

Lily and Lola from Hannah Montana

Some more Lily and Lolas!

Week 5 in review :)

Hannah Montana week was so successful! It was awesome to walk around camp and see everyone preparing for the concert and dressing up like Hannah Montana characters. From Lily/Lola dress up to Rico's Shack to Hannah Montana mania on Friday with more blonde wigs than I'd ever seen, we definitely got into the fun of the theme.



We also had a great week of Flag Twirling as well. The girls performed a great routine to "All My Lovin'" by The Beatles. The were so in sync and it was many girls first time ever twirling. I'll be posting pictures as soon as I can and hopefully someone else will be able to blog about High School Musical 2 week because I was away in Cape May for a dance competition with my students!

Right now I am prepping for the excitement of 3 night overnight week at camp! I have so many fun activities planned and I can't wait to meet all the girls in the unit. Summer and I are ready to be your counselors. See you tomorrow :)

Pictures -- as promised.

Here is a peek at come of the Camp Sacajawea clothes being sold at the Trading Post and of the camper t-shirts this year! Also I threw in some pictures of the boat race :) Enjoy!

Rah, Rah, Sis Boom Bah!

The cheerleading girls were adorable, they worked so hard on their routine all week!

Only at camp

Only at camp can we have Thanksgiving dinner, a campfire and cheerleading all in one week!


Dinner was delish! The chefs went above and beyond this week, everyone had seconds!
The campfire that follwed dinner was one of Camp Sac's best-everyone was up and dancing to the tune of the camp songs-I even saw the moms and dads getting into it!!!

Boat race video-- Finally!

I finally was able to get a new memory card reader so here are videos from Week 3's cardboard boat race!

The beginning of the race! Cheering on our counselors!

We continue on! Some of us sink :(

Dino's in the lead!

Dino Wins!

The rest of the pack walks up!

We trudge on...

Indy is still afloat!

Dino and Eagles Nest came in first place with their T-rex raft and Indy and Brown Owl came in second place with their boat. Congratulations to all for their hardwork, and THANK YOU counselors for getting into Lake Brindle!

Look for more pictures from camp tomorrow :)