Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Session Two, We Welcome You!


Dear Camp Families,

It is so wonderful to have all your campers here!  We have returning campers, first time campers, and even second generation campers!  A wonderful mixture of girls! 

It has been a busy three days so far.  On Monday morning I met all your beautiful daughters.  In the morning the girls did their trial rides.  We want to make sure that we have the right camper, on the right mount, in the right lesson group! By Monday afternoon, we only had 3 out of 32 campers doing re-rides.  The rest were matches made in heaven.  I talked to every camper at lunch and they were all happy with their mounts, or there was a plan in place to achieve their happiness.

Monday afternoon we offered horsemanship to those campers who might have needed a little refresher course or a little extra help in learning how to tack up and/or lead their pony or horse.  We want to make sure we set our campers up for success, especially when they are here for 2 weeks.  Another afternoon activity option was slip and slide, which you can see pictures of on Facebook.  Their fourth afternoon activity option was obstacle courses with the minis.  Many campers gravitated towards this option probably because Boo was involved with it.

On Monday night, before dinner, a rain storm rolled through Temple NH.  Some of the campers took this opportunity to run around and wash their hair in the rain. 

We played Bag Skits on Monday night.  Each room is given about 15 minutes and a bag to put 5 items in the bag.  When the time is up, they are called out to the main room.  Then we switch all the bags around and re-give each room a bag.  (They don’t wind up with the bag they filled with their 5 items.)  Then the campers have a set amount of time to come up with a skit using all 5 items.  These skits are hysterical to see.  I love the creativity that goes into each skit.

It is hot here, but the girls are doing great with the heat.  Drinking plenty of fluids and not complaining at all about the heat.  The weather is supposed to break today.  We have a fun week planned ahead of us!  On Saturday is the horse show, come by if you can!

Best,

Becky

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