So sad!
He didn't get in a fight, but after 3 weeks of playing with rocks and sticks, an injury was bound to happen. He fell on our last night and I thought his eye was bleeding and freaked out and then realized it was a scrape right next to the eyelid. He woke up this morning with a puffy black eye.
So, spending so much time up at camp had me reminiscing on past camp experiences. I remember as a young camper waking up super early to go fishing ( I think there was a boy involved, because I was never interested in fishing...) and I actually caught something! It was so heavy- I couldn't even pull it out of the water. My counselor thought it might be one of the 100 pound turtles that lived in the lake. It wasn't. It turned out to be a CHAIR that we pulled out of the water. I won the trophy for 'most unusual catch'.
My brother was at that same camp with me. He bought a rubber snake at the gift shop and when my mom was doing his laundry after camp, she freaked when she found that little surprise.
In college, I got to spend 2 glorious summers as a 'camp nurse' in Big Bear at Pine Summit. We all dreaded those 6:00 am devotionals, and clean up days, but for the most part we had a blast. Chris & I actually got engaged up there and they threw us an engagement party at 'Fir Health Lodge', where I think confetti is found up to this day.
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Poor buddy... Okay, now you are really being "christened" as the mom of a boy - many more to come!
I remember being at Campus Crusade for Christ retreats and sneaking up to the shore of the lake where the boys thought they would take a swim "au natural" and we all ran off with their clothes - Gotta love those church events! We still laugh about it to this day and still have no idea how they made it back to their cabins.
Great post! I love walking down memory lane!
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