Soaking & Spoons

Wednesday

Yet another early morning wake up for me, but this time I don't think it was because of an earthquake under my bed. I woke up to the early morning rays of sun making their way through the window on the far end of the Grammarian's side of the room. Then the one thought that I kept having over and over again struck me: Wow. I can't believe that I'm actually here!

Not being one to waste a perfectly nice morning at camp sleeping in, I made my way out of the top bunk - which might I add is a rather interesting and sometimes slightly painful experience. When your climbing down off of a shaky bunk onto the top of a creaky metal folding chair, being quiet is a difficult thing to do, but some how each morning I managed to pull it off.
Up at the basket ball court later that morning we did Winnie the Pooh exercises and finger stretches- lead by Ruben, of course. Strange and crazy, but I must admit that it was fun.

After breakfast, the rest of the Angels decided that we should work on our skit. So I hurried up and finished my breakfast and followed the rest of them down to the little chapel. Although we came down there to practice and plan, more than half of our rehersal time was spent just laughing over some of the silliest little things. Every single time Raeshelle walked past practicing giving us evil glares, everybody would crack up. I don’t know what there is about being told not to laugh, but it doesn’t help matters any. When ever some one said, “now don’t laugh this time!” everybody ended up cracking up anyway. It’s like your body just has to do the oposite of what your mind is trying to tell it to do. Makes me wonder if maybe if we were told to laugh we’d be serious....Hmm...I doubt it! So we practiced (well, sort of) our skit again, and again and we were having such a good time, nobody thought to look at their watch. So in the middle of what was probibly our 5th or 6th retry with our skit, our counselor, Mrs. Mcfaul came in and said “You girls were supposed to be at the soccer field more than a half an hour ago!” Well, that got us moving. So we all hurried ourselves up to the Field of Running and came in right in the middle of a game of kick ball. After all that running, I hardly felt up to running some more in a game of kick ball, so I joined Mandy and Laurel who were sitting off on the sidelines. After a few minutes more of watching the game from a distance, we decided to look around a bit. We walked through the woods near the Field of Running and discovered gigantic 3-foot-tall-2-foot-wide fuzzy weeds. Laurel and Mandy decided to try out some karate moves on them, and in the end destroyed a couple. So I grabbed one of the yellow flower-covered tops and walked back into camp after the games looking very proud of the "head of weed" I'd collected.

I really don't remember much else of what went on that day, although I'm pretty sure that in the afternoon we had the big water fight. We all were given rubber tubes, which we filled up with water and carried them around on our backs to spray the other players. It was cold, but very much fun. I was the first person to get some body wet when I lost my grip and my tube sprayed several of the people who were waiting to get theirs. Then Dexter was the first person to get thoroughly soaked when his tube popped on him. It was one of those hilarious America’s Funniest Home Videos moments. I wish that I’d had my video camera there to get that footage! I was very pleased with myself at the end of that water fight because I managed to get Ruben pretty soaked. That was great!

[[Me Soaking Ruben]]

That evening was the most memorable for me though- the night of the spoons. After having a blast at Fun ’n Stuff singing silly songs, we all headed back down to the kitchen for snacks...And one awesomely fun game of spoons...If you could really say that’s what we were doing. We were constantly stopping to pose for pictures or just to laugh...at what we’ll never know. Just all of the sudden somebody would start laughing and before you know it, the whole group of us is just going nuts laughing our heads off and banging on the table for no aparent reason. It was one of the best nights of my life! There are few things in life that could beat getting hyped up on cake and ice cream and then going insane with a bunch of new friends while playing a game of spoons. I’m sure this will be one of the best summer memories of my lifetime.




"We could set the dining hall on fire, and put it out with water! Wait, wait - we like the cooks. Yeah, that would be kinda awkward...burn toast and all that in the morning."