Posted on June 20, 2009 - by Larry

Work Day 5 – Glacier Camp – June 19

Today was our final work day. My group headed to fix a couple of sign posts that had fallen. We had to dig through a huge amount of rock and I’m lucky that I have Connor and Patrick who love to destroy things. I’ve started calling Connor, “The Wind,” because like a hurricane, he can blow through a project and get a huge amount of work done but in the next minute he is like a breeze and has disappeared. After that we went inside the retreat center to see if we could help finish off the wall. I’m happy to report that the wall is 90% complete. There are some small things left to finish but we don’t have the materials (door, window, paint, etc.) so they will need to complete the project later. I went on a grocery/Game Awesome material run so I missed some of what went on at the camp but from what I was told the blob was finally secure and kids were using it. I heard Sarah and Kaitlin were “massively launched” in to the air. Today was Elizabeth’s birthday so we got yet more cake and ice cream (Sheri loves reasons to buy cakes.) After dinner we played the traditional Game Awesome. This is a game where us “adults” create game stations that they kids are supposed to complete. Upon completion they are rewarded with an item. At the end of the game they are to create a symbol from the items they collected and this year they were to make a rap, song or poem about their item and the time here. The stations:
- The entire team (7 or 8 kids) gets into a canoe and rows around another canoe (Dan was in it) while they are singing “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.” As they pass Dan they pick up their first piece. One canoe capsized and another completely sunk.
- The team lays on the ground shoulder to shoulder and rolls over each other and then rolls back. This is called “The Caterpillar”
- The whole time the group that is at the second station is completing their task the group at the third station is launching water balloons at them from up the hill. Hysterical.
- The team must relay a big beach ball between their bodies from one end of the basketball court to the other without touching the ball.
- The team must compete with each other. They run as far as they can while screaming the entire time.
- Egg Toss Relay
- On the camp rock wall the team was to relay from one end to the other and back. The only rule was that the person going across had to be “on the wall.” Most teams carried their person back and forth.
Of course the only night we need it to be nice outside it rains.
After the game the teams created their team symbols and performed. We are currently mired in another game that I am not allowed to say (the kids would probably kill me.) Us “adults” are fading fast and I can’t wait until this game is finished. Tick tock, 1:45 am. We leave for the Bozeman KOA tomorrow around 1. I am not sure what kind of internet is there but we shall see.