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 :)