Camp One, Part Two.

Tuesday of Camp One brought lots of activities and adventures! We started off the morning after breakfast with cabin cleanup and then met in the downstairs chapel for our morning chapel program.

The counselors prepared a song called "Screen door" that they performed, including using cups as instruments. The song talks about how having faith without work is as useless as a "screen door on a submarine". Perfect for our week!

After our song, we had two guests from St. Mary's Convent in Sewanee visit. Sisters Mary Martha and Madeleine Mary visited with our campers and talked about their life as they balance faith and works. We'll be going to their convent later this week as one of the service morning sites.

After the talk, in family groups the campers made Anglican prayer beads and discussed quotes about faith and works.

After lunch the campers either went off-campus on a hike in Sewanee (Caldwell Rim hike) or stayed on campus and picked from several activities. The on-campus kids had arts and crafts, field games, jam session, pool time, and two activities that were a little different - the first is water aerobics, led by Phil, who took water aerobics in college:

The second was science experiment, where the kids got to make structures to hold their eggs as they dropped them from the third floor balcony, using only straws and rubber bands.

Later that night we had our annual counselor hunt. The counselors dress up in black and camouflage and hide from the campers. The campers go around "hunting" for the counselors. Also while the counselors are hiding, the campers come up with a list of "charges" for each counselor - usually inside jokes from the week so far, things like "not laughing at our jokes" and "not calling our table first at dinner tonight."

The counselors get creative with their hiding spots. Take these trash bags for example. You'd think they were just trash..

But look closer and you see they are counselors!

At our counselor hunt all of the girl counselors were found but none of the boys. Perhaps that is because some of the boy counselors (Winn especially) had elaborate camouflage! Winn brought a ghillie suit from home.

Reading charges by the pool:

Those found "guilty" were pushed into the pool by the team that found them:

Tuesday was filled with good weather, good spirits, and lots of fun. On to Wednesday!