What a Great Adventure

It's our next to last day at Millstone 4-H camp and our day campers are having the experience of their lives.  Each day has been a little different offering our campers all sorts of new experiences.  Today on the schedule is Archery, Canoeing, and Arts and Crafts.  After we broke into our groups shortly after arriving and followed our counselors off into the wooded unknown.  Archery has quickly become a favorite activity of our campers now that they have learned the mechanics they are mostly practicing and getting better all the time.  Canoeing is more than just getting in the boats now it"s also about jumping in the lake and having fun in the water.  Those who were a little worried about the water earlier in the week seem to have overcome their fears and are jumping into the murky natural pool without hesitation now.  Arts and Crafts was a new and neat experience for our creative youth.  They got to cut out stencils they made from card stock and placed it on dark t-shirts.  Then they sprayed the stencil with bleach leaving behind a cool design.  The instructor then dunked the shirt in cold water which stopped the spread of bleach.  After wringing them out they will go in the camp dryer during the night and be ready to be unveiled sometime tomorrow.
  Of course all of this fun let us build up a healthy appetite.  Although we must say the food is so good here many of our campers are looking forward to lunch even more so then their activities.  Today on the menu were hamburgers, broccoli, french fries, and jello or pudding for dessert.
  After lunch we finished our last activity on the schedule and then literately jumped in the pool.  today was the first day we jumped in the deep end (if we passed the swim test).  So it was a very exciting day of swimming.  After we had our fun splashing each other and playing water games it was time to get out and dry off.  The camp store was  open for snack, then we loaded up  and headed home.  There were a lot of sleepy heads nodding in the back but it was a fun day and we only have one more to go....