Girl's Camp

As some of you know, I am the Beehive adviser at church (the Beehives are the 12 and 13 year old girls), so I was asked to go to Girl's Camp. I was only able to go for Thursday and Friday because of work. It was so fun! The girl's are awesome and they just crack me up. We went to a place in Oregon near the Owyhee Resevoir. It is truly in the middle of the desert with rattlesnakes-yes, frightening- racoons and billions of bugs. I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, ahh the joys of pregnancy, and heard a noise in the tree nearby. I held up my light in front of me and saw four beady eyes staring back. Yikes! To my relief, if you could call it that, it registered that it was only two young racoons. Then, of course, panicked thoughts "racoons are mean, what if they attack me, what if they are rabid". Quite the imagination I have. I made it back to my tent unscathed and quickly crawled into my sleeping bag. Not exactly the best night's sleep ever, but I've said goodbye for several years to a good night's sleep.

The camp did have bathrooms with flushing toilet's and a kitchen with a fridge and stove. The campground was totally landscaped with beautiful green grass. Don't be deceived it was brown all around it. Some might say that is not really camping because in Montana, we really did rough it. You are right, but it was so nice to not have to cook over a campfire or use latrines. The coolest thing it had was this HUGE slip 'n' slide. It wasn't too steep, but was super fun!

One of the girl's boogie boarding down the slide!


Me going down the slide! What a blast!