Girl's Camp was awesome! This year was my fifth time going to girl's camp, and my third time going to a place called Camp Buckhorn for camp. Camp Buckhorn is on mount San Joseito, which is the sheerest mountain in North America. I thought that was pretty neat, but it also meant that we were at a very high altitude for camp which made it harder to breathe. This year, I was a youth leader. This meant that when everyone went to specific activity rotation, I would stay at one place and help. I would help the girls doing the activity with what ever they needed help with, whether it was tying bows on their crafts, or helping the glue faux flowers to the flip-flops we made. One of my favorite activities at camp was the hike, which surprised me that I liked it so much. I almost didn't go on the hike because my stomach was hurting and it was hot, but I decided I would do it anyway, and I was really thankful I did. It turned out to be a really awesome hike, but parts of it were so steep it was more like rock climbing. At the beginning of the hike, our guide Brother Van Wagoner told us that it was "an easy hike on flat ground till the very end, where there was a little hill, and it was almost completely in the shade." Everything he told us was technically true, but the "hill at the very end" was a bit more then a little hill. It was a very long, steep incline that went on for a while. Afterwords he told us that he said it was an easy hike because if he had told us it was a difficult hike, no one would have done it. Because he told us it was an easy hike, everyone went on the hike and we did it even though it was hard. If we had known it was difficult, a lot of people (including me) wouldn't have done it in the first place.
Me before the hike. I was still oblivious to the fact that I was about to do something very difficult, as you can tell.
Claire and I on the way back from the hike. We were both very tired and very frazzled, but we had fun! We had to take lots of breaks and sit in the shade on the way home because we were both so worn out, but we made it back!
Claire, Me, and Rachel. We climbed some neat rocks at a place called the Indian Caves. The Indian Caves were where we hiked to, and they were pretty neat!
Me by the Indian Caves. At camp, there is a different theme for each day, such as crazy sock day, crazy hair day, and pink princess day. The day of the hike was pink princess day, so I hiked in the pretty pink tutu that I made. It was fun!
Laurie, Rachel and I by the Indian Caves.
Rachel and I by a waterfall near the Indian Caves. There was lots of small waterfalls along the trail, and they were all super beautiful.
At lunch with Claire. There was a big cafeteria type place where we all met to eat. Claire and I aren't in the same ward, but we still ate together sometimes. Rachel and Laurie are in the same ward as Claire, so it was nice for us all to eat together.
Claire, Laurie, and I got in a super fun water fight. We got very, very wet, but it was pretty warm at camp so at least we dried quickly! Claire and Laurie are wearing Indian Princess/Pocahontas outfits because every ward chose a princess to be for that week at camp. Their ward was Pocahontas, and my ward was Ariel from the little mermaid. I do not particularly like Ariel, but it was fun to decorate our cabins with seashells and fish balloons.
Me at the pool! It was nice to go swimming right after the hike.
On crazy hair day, I had very crazy hair. Sister H (Claire's mom) put a pine cone in my hair with a pink fluff on top. It was pretty awesome.
Well, camp was awesome, it might be my last year, but maybe not.
Oh, and I don't have a camera that works, so all the pictures were taken by Claire. :)
One of my leaders took a bunch of pictures, but I don't have them yet. When I get them, I will make sure to post them!
