Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Session Two - Wednesday: Life is Good!

Dear Camp Families,

It was so wonderful to see all of you on Sunday.  It was like a reunion with friends!  I just love having so many returning campers!  The campers that were new to camp, have taken to camp like a fish to water.  You wouldn’t even be able to pick out the new ones because they have been welcomed whole heartedly and fit in so well!  It is a joy to have them here!  Almost like the gang is back together!  Life is good!

On Monday we did our trial rides and had about 6 campers do re-rides.  I think we have everyone on the love of their life, in the form of a pony, that is!  On Monday afternoon we painted ponies, because why wouldn’t you!  We did a slip and slide, played with small animals, went to Budweiser, and did re-rides!  On Monday night we had bag skits.  Kris, our General Manager and former camp director, was with the kids. (I was in a staff meeting, not nearly as much fun as bag skitsL)  She posted on Facebook, that after 32 years of Bag Skits, she still doesn’t know what room does!

If you don’t know what Bag Skits are it is a fun and funny game!  Each room of campers gets an empty bag and goes to their room and puts 10 items in the bag.  Then everybody comes back out, and we switch all the bags around.  The campers go back to their rooms to make up a skit using the items in the bag they were handed.

Everyone has a certain amount of time to make up their skit, and then it's showtime!  As I said, it is fun and funny - to pick the items in the bag, to figure out your skit, to see what another room did with your items.

Tuesday was a BEAUTIFUL DAY!  We rode in our riding groups in the morning and did our afternoon activities!  Many of the campers were getting ready for the show last night, so the rest of the camp had a Casino Night scheduled, but opted for a horseless horse show instead!

It is Wednesday and pouring rain!  We have 20 campers at an away horse show.  It is never a dull moment at camp!  Our other 15 campers are at different stations in the barns.  We have a leg wrapping station going on, how to take a bridal apart and put it back together, naming the parts of a horse with Annie and she is being labeled, but is a good sport about it.  (Annie the horses, not the human.)  We also have a trivia station!  This afternoon we are going to have Know-Down Show-Down on all the info they have learned so far!  And there will be candy involved…mainly because we NEVER have candy at camp and anything to help make a rainy day better is a good thing.
Boo will be writing later this week and we all know how she is the better writer of the duo!  In the mean time you can follow our activities on Facebook.  Here is the link if you need it - https://www.facebook.com/ponyfarmsummercamp?ref=hl

Best,

Becky

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