Girls Camp

We had a wonderful, but terrifically hot and humid girls camp. This would be an ideal place in October or November, but not August. (August 9-14) I was ward girls camp director and we had 9 1st through 3rd year girls who were fantastic!

The theme for camp this year was "There's No Place Like Home" taken from The Wizard of Oz. Since the YM/YW scripture/theme for this year is Be strong and of good COURAGE, it was fun to base the camp theme loosely on that. So our ward had to think of our name and we called ourselves the Daring Dreamers and our color was the rainbow and we got rainbow suspenders and our theme was "The dreams that you dare to dream really do come true." (From the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow) We had to make a flag and this was ours. One of the girls brought the rainbow strips and another one wrote the words, and the rest of us stitched it all up!We shared this camp site with 2 other wards. It's an official Girl Scout camp and it is awesome!

This is the bathroom. Emily and her friend, Rebecca.

This was taken before the testimony meeting.

Inside the AIR-CONDITIONED lodge. The 5th year girls are leading the girls in camp songs. Behind the girls are all the ward's camp flags. Such creativity!!! I was blown away.This was a great theme!

Here are our 9 girls plus one of their 5th year youth camp leaders waiting for more singing.

At this camp there is this great statue. We got some pics with it.

Getting props ready for our skit.

After our skit. The judges didn't get the point of it, so they gave us the "Psychotic Award", but that's ok, our girls had a blast with it! :D