Thursday is an amazing day at camp as we've gotten to know each other and at the very same time it's also a sad day at camp as we begin to see individuals leave camp for college or school sports. Today was a perfect day for our theme of relationships to be discussed.
Our morning groups today focused on not just the relationships of couples, but of groups, friends, and families. We pulled apart the goods and bads in relationships and thought about our futures and how those relationships will be shaped by our past and by those around us.
The afternoon was fueled by a great pizza lunch, and our campers retreated to their cabins to get prepared for the cabin games 2014 edition! We have every cabin at camp take part in this annual tradition and determine a camp champion through many rounds of shipwreck, four corners, "death ball" (the camp version of dodgeball), and many other games. It all came down to a relay between cabin 1 of the junior high and the Sophomore boys.... and the Junior High won!!!! It was a great afternoon and Evan, Timmy, John, and the other stars of Cabin 1 rightly deserved the trophy at the end of the day.
After an amazing afternoon program, a wonderful chapel led by our Seniors, and some brief showers we headed to the dance. Our second dance of the week is always a lot more fun than the first dance of the week as we have all grown closer and that makes dancing and singing along all that much easier for everyone. As usual we ended on Stairway to Heaven and then left the dance hall for a great vespers service under the night sky.
I look forward to one more full day at camp, and thank you all for the amazing opportunity to spend a week with these incredibly talented, smart, and fun teens.
Steve Flaherty
p.s For all those former campers and advisors reading this...the staff versus senior basketball game took place this year for the 5th straight year (?), and once again the staff beat the seniors handily. The aged vets, including myself, were just too much for the teens to handle and put up a 21-12 victory.
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