Girls Camp 2010

The end of June brought Girls Camp to our house. Blakely and Mom got to go to camp this year again. We had girls camp up at the Oakley Stake Ranch. Early Tues. morning we headed out on a hike. Since there was still snow up in the mountains we decided to hike across the base of the mountains and hike into the camp. It was a good hike as it was not too steep(until the end). We hike through farmer's fields, cow pastures,creeks and barb wire fences. We visited the old Willow Creek cemetery(which interesting enough was fenced off in the middle of a cow pasture.) As we made it to the gate that told us we were almost there, we had to cross a much bigger creek(some of us did fall in.) The leaders wanted to hike the last mile and half up to the cabin which was straight up. We pushed the girls until we did have to call in the truck to pick some of them up.
We set up camp and then taught the some camp requirements. We practiced our skits and songs. We had a wonderful dinner of bagel pizzas. We had fun that night even if some of the skits and songs were a little unusual. The girls stayed up until 3 or so in the morning. They were above us in the cabin so you could hear everything. The next morning we had Ziploc omelets and started our next set of camp requirements. After lunch we had down time which I followed the younger girls around and took pictures of them playing in the creek. We then had a camp competition. Which our team did not fair very good at the knot tying, but very good at the fire starting. That night we enjoyed a night hike followed by testimony meeting. Then it was onto a snipe hunt. Scary! There were snipes everywhere.
The next morning was clean up and birthday pinata and heading home. Another great girls camp. Hoo Haa! My another children stayed the days with Grandma Peterson and were spoiled. They will have to keep working for Grandma all summer to paid back her generosity.