Camp Three: Rappelling.

Every week, we've taken the kids rappelling with the park rangers from the South Cumberland State Park. We usually go to Foster Falls and Fiery Gizzard to rappel. Yesterday, we got to take our Camp Three kids. 17 of them chose to rappel, which was a brave thing to do for young kids!


Here's a few of the last group doing their rappelling:

Andrew being silly and demonstrating to the boys that the harness is safe:

Gabe gears up to go:

James is ready!

 Gabe descends:

David is next!

We are so lucky to have a great relationship with the South Cumberland State Park rangers - they do so much for us!!

Camp Three: Swimming at the Fiery Gizzard

Yesterday afternoon we went to the Fiery Gizzard to swim. The Fiery Gizzard is a part of the  South Cumberland State Park and is in Tracy City, just a short bus ride away from camp.

We unloaded the bus at the park and started our hike to the water hole:

We stopped at the first hole, unloaded our stuff, and climbed down to the hole. 

Camp Three: The Playground.

Right across from Camp Gailor-Maxon is a really neat playground nestled under a huge canopy of trees. The younger kids love the playground and we've been able to go twice this week. We went yesterday after chapel and it was so much fun:

What fun times!

Camp Three: All Saint's Service

We finished our fun day in Sewanee with a candlelit service at All Saint's Chapel, the school chapel for the University of the South. We had been talking about Baptismal Covenants in chapel that day and so we renewed our baptismal covenants that night. 


Here we are about to go inside the chapel:

Sitting down inside for the service:

Singing:

Renewing our Baptismal Covenant:

 More singing:

We ended the night with a trip to the Memorial Cross to sing some silly songs:

Camp Three: Picnic

After a fun time running around Abbo's Alley, we headed up to University Avenue. We split into two groups - one went to Sweet CeCe's Ice Cream Shop and the other group went to the Bookstore and then we swapped. After a nice time of cooling off and getting some souvenirs, we hit up the playground to play and have a picnic. 


Here we are at Sweet CeCes:

And now at the playground for the picnic:

The last stop for the night was All Saints Chapel for a candle-lit service!