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Family camp is all about reconnecting with your family, but it is also about doing your best to smash the competition during the family olympics. When you first get to camp you are assigned your cabin and your color. This year the girls were really hoping to have Tie-Dye, and apparently they were praying hard enough (this is a Young Life camp you know) because their prayers were answered. As soon as your bunk beds are made the colors go on and you are ready to venture out into camp to see who else is on your team. Camp organizers are very smart about choosing the teams. Everybody has a family or two that they know and a few families they don’t. That way, in the heat of competition, you make some new bosom buddies.
Just like last year we put together our own version of the Brady Bunch (with two sets of parents). Our good friends have three boys that are all a year older than our three girls. They all get along so well that it makes for a perfect weekend.
This year we were the Tie-Dye Skittles (Taste the Rainbow!) and this is a picture of our team doing their big cheers. Jill was instrumental in choosing the name of the team, coming up with our big cheer and leading the synchronized swimming routine (see Monday’s post). At home she appears to have very little confidence in her ideas and abilities but when she goes out into the world she is quite good at getting her point across. I can’t tell you how good it was to see that! Below is another idea of Jill’s. Rather than having the team pyramid go precariously skyward (risking life, limb and back), she suggested that all of the participants lie on the ground in a pyramid shape. Brilliant!
I won’t share every event with you because there is nothing worse than looking at somebody else’s boring vacation pictures. (I am probably already wearing out my welcome as it is!) Here are a few of the fun events.
This is the mattress carry relay. Josh is yelling ‘You know you want it!’ into Allen’s ear to motivate him…
This is the three legged race. We did so well last year that we were asked back…
This is the shovel pull relay…
This is ‘shove two kids into an inner-tube and make them run around a cone’ relay…
This is the 12 man ski race on grass…
This was a flat leapfrog sort of relay for the whole team. (Kind of like laying dominos down and running over them.)
I really don’t know what this was but it sure looked fun…
Tune in on Monday to check out the second half of our weekend, Pool Olympics!