Crazy Girlz Camp

Girls Camp was last week! I love working with the young women! We have the best girls! I love them! This year, camp was very....well,....interesting. We drove up to Big Lake on Monday, set up our tents and our campsite. (We were actually roughing it this year! - unlike our two-story cabin last year! ;)) All was going well until late Tuesday afternoon when it began to get pretty windy. We were hoping it would let up, however, by evening one of our tents broke (the poles snapped in half from the wind). A couple of the wards tents next to us broke also. That night was CRAZY!! The wind was blowing our tents all around - the pole on my side of the tent would hit me in the head every few minutes as the wind blew it down. Lindalee Clement (our Camp Director for our ward) woke up at 2 am and got up to make sure everything and everyone was okay. She found our 10x20 ft awning blowing all over - the huge 10 ft poles were all bent and the whole thing was only being held down by one stake and rope. She recruited Chrissy Hamberlin to help her take the tarps off the awning so they could take it down before it blew right into our tents! It got pretty scary. Our whole stake ending up taking down Camp and leaving around 9 am Wednesday morning. We later found out that 2 humungous trees at our campsite fell down shortly after we left and the porta johns fell over. This could have been fatal had we not had the inspiration of our stake leaders to leave the campsite. So.....On Thursday we finished up Camp at the stake center. This was definitely a memorable camp experience!