Monday, June 18, 2012--Camp Dellwood
Sarah, Justin and I headed out of the house at 7:00am on Monday morning. Sarah and I were boarding a bus at 7:30am at Hawthorne Elementary and Justin was going to be taking part in a week of his preschool camp. Sarah and I were heading to Camp Dellwood on the westside of Indianapolis. We took part in camp last year for the first time and had a ball and decided that we should try it again. Jackson decided not to join us this year. He participated last year as a Tagalong. But instead, this year, Jackson is going to Vacation Bible School with his buddy Joe.
We got Justin dropped off and headed over to Hawthorne and jumped onto the bus. We were heading to Camp Dellwood!
When we arrived we picked up Grace. She was already at camp ready to roll. We began walking down to the flag pole for the morning flag ceremony. I was very excited to see that 3 other little girls who were in our Daisy unit last year were also in Pinewood, our Brownie unit. I was also thrilled that I was working with the same leader, "Berley" who I worked with last year. She is excellent at leading girls at camp. We started out with the flag ceremony and after that ventured down to Pinewood, out unit which we will make our "home" this week. There are about 10 tents with 4 cots in each tent. They are platform tents with canvas coverings. I opened them up and they were also very hot and covered with lovely daddy-long-legs! My favorite!
After exploring the tents and running around the area, we lined up and headed up to crafts at the Program Center. One thing is for sure, you need your walking shoes at Camp Dellwood. We do a LOT of walking!
Sarah, Justin and I headed out of the house at 7:00am on Monday morning. Sarah and I were boarding a bus at 7:30am at Hawthorne Elementary and Justin was going to be taking part in a week of his preschool camp. Sarah and I were heading to Camp Dellwood on the westside of Indianapolis. We took part in camp last year for the first time and had a ball and decided that we should try it again. Jackson decided not to join us this year. He participated last year as a Tagalong. But instead, this year, Jackson is going to Vacation Bible School with his buddy Joe.
We got Justin dropped off and headed over to Hawthorne and jumped onto the bus. We were heading to Camp Dellwood!
When we arrived we picked up Grace. She was already at camp ready to roll. We began walking down to the flag pole for the morning flag ceremony. I was very excited to see that 3 other little girls who were in our Daisy unit last year were also in Pinewood, our Brownie unit. I was also thrilled that I was working with the same leader, "Berley" who I worked with last year. She is excellent at leading girls at camp. We started out with the flag ceremony and after that ventured down to Pinewood, out unit which we will make our "home" this week. There are about 10 tents with 4 cots in each tent. They are platform tents with canvas coverings. I opened them up and they were also very hot and covered with lovely daddy-long-legs! My favorite!
After exploring the tents and running around the area, we lined up and headed up to crafts at the Program Center. One thing is for sure, you need your walking shoes at Camp Dellwood. We do a LOT of walking!
At crafts, Sarah and Grace made two crafts. They made a bracelet with the many colored beads that represent the Girl Scouts. We also made a picture frame. The girls found out that we are a special session of Camp Dellwood. We are celebrating the 100th birthday of the founding of Girl Scouts this week. So our picture frame had a birthday theme. The girls had a good time and stayed cool in the program center while they made their picture frames. Then off we went to go to the lodge for lunch. Before lunch, we worked on a game in which the girls had to look at a tray and figure out what was on the tray. Then some things were taken off of the tray and the girls had to decide what was missing. They did pretty well with this game. It was called Kim's Game. Kim stands for Keep in Mind. We didn't know that and found it interesting.
Lunch is being provided to us again this year free of charge. It is standard government lunch and honestly, it's not the greatest, but Sarah and Grace both ate some things. The adults get a different menu of items and so far it has all been edible.
After lunch we had to hop. The girls asked, "What are hoppers?" Well, when we told them, they were quite disappointed. Hopping means we have to clean up after everyone else. So we got to "hop" on the first day. I think I saw Gracie walking around trying to find trash on the floor to pick up and I saw Sarah carrying a bag of trash out to the road! Great helpers.
After lunch, we headed up to the flag pole and got ready to swim. Grace was very nervous about the swimming test. Sarah was excited. Sarah didn't pass it last year, but was determined to pass this year.
So they both took their turn at the swim test and much to her dismay, Grace didn't pass the test. Sarah has had 14 weeks of swimming lessons at the YMCA and those helped tremendously. She passed the test and is now able to dive (jump) off of the diving board.
I swam with Grace and a little with Sarah, but Sarah stayed mostly in the deep end and spent time going off the board. After swimming we changed and got ready for the flag ceremony. It was extremely hot. Over 90 degrees and predicted to get hotter on Tuesday and Wednesday. I was glad the end of the day was near. The heat was starting to get to the girls. But the first day of camp was a huge success! We had a lot of fun and were getting to know the other 19 girls in our unit. Hoping for a great Tuesday!
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