The camp is located in this really cool red canyon and on one side there is a cross at the top that lights up at night. You can hike up to the cross but you're not supposed to hike anywhere else. I did anyways. There was a place where the rock was at an angle and there were handholds and footholds so some friends and I climbed up that. It was more difficult then the trail but it was a lot more fun.
Of course, every year there are the usual free time activities, volleyball and basketball tournaments, swimming, hiking etc. and this year I was on a volleyball team. I think were were the worst team but I had fun playing. It was rally scoring and best 2 out of three games. Our first game we lost 15 to 3 and the second game we lost 15 to 5.
At the end of free time there were electives you could go to. Connecting to God through art, connecting to God through relationships, connecting to God through culture and connecting to God through conflict. I went to all except the conflict one. The art one was arts and crafts, you could draw, paint, make beaded things or make paper things. I decided to sketch. The relationships and culture ones were open questions and discussions.
The most annoying part of the week was the first night. One of the girls started shrieking because she saw a mouse and then all the other girls started shrieking. It was rather funny because they all started jumping on beds and suitcases. I personally didn't care but the other girls were scared out of their wits so at 12:30 we all had to pack up and move to a different cabin! I was not happy. It's not like the mouse was gonna eat them in their sleep! My friend and I named it Joany, and it was a very cute mouse. I voted to catch it and keep it as a pet. Somehow I was overruled.
So, now for the pictures. These are in no particular order:
This is the cross at the top of the canyon that a lot of us hiked up to; me for the scenery and others for the cell phone reception.
View from the top of the cross
Mountain Men!
This is the lovely foot circle at the cross.
Hiking buddies at the cross, notice the cell phone ;)
This looks like a cave but it is only a few feet deep.
Before we had free time we had total group and we would play games. If you lost, there was a punishment. This is the punishment for Jc, on the right.
Every night after worship we had "late night". This is at the disco dance.
This was the Spider that I found in a window, it is still alive.
During BASIC we had a butterfly land on Steve's hat. It sat there and licked his hat for about 15 minutes. We named it Steve Jr. because it seemed to like Steve.
There were lots of animals at camp (of course). This is the baby deer, I didn't get a good picture of the mother.
There were also goats, about 12 of them.
There were canvases and oil pastels in the Tabernacle and people could draw during worship, there were some pretty awesome drawings.
This is the cool climbing place that we found. It wasn't really that difficult, but it was a lot of fun!
This is our unofficial devotion group that met the first three mornings. I missed the last one because I was so exhausted that I woke up after it started.
This is the chapel that my BASIC group was supposed to meet in but it was so hot that we met right outside the chapel.
And this is my totally amazing BASIC group!
This post has taken forever to create and there are a bazillion pictures but I couldn't decide which I liked best. Well, that was camp.
~Ellentia
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