Back Again

We made it!  Everyone is home safe and sound.

A few highlights from the trip...

One of the holes for Frisbee golf was near a mud pit... my group of girls (myself included) does not have great aim. We were terrified our frisbees would end up in the mud... At first it looked like we'd be okay; all the discs went away from the mud (mine came super close though!).  But the last girl threw hers and it landed with a splash far enough away we couldn't reach it.  I told her to just grab one of the extras but her friend said, "Eh, my feet are already wet anyway. I'll just walk in there and grab it!"  So she did! And her feet only got a little more wet.

Although the weather was warm today, it was super windy.  We had to portage the canoes from one side of the peninsula to the other so we wouldn't have to paddle through the waves.  Hey, we just learned about portaging in MN history! They pretended they were voyageurs as they portaged across the nice, sandy path to the other side of the lake.  The first canoe I was in started leaking once we were out on the lake.  Just little streams of water seeping up from the middle seam.  The third girl (sitting in the middle of the boat) joined a different canoe.  We probably would've been fine with it the short amount of time we were canoeing, but my co-paddler didn't know how to swim and got nervous at the idea that we might sink. So we traded our canoe for another.  As soon as the bow of that canoe went in the water, more water bubbled up into the bottom! That one had a hole too! So we went with a third option, one made of fiberglass so it didn't have any seems to leak.

My kiddos played GaGa ball any time they had a minute.  They were out there by 6:30am this morning! This class actually slept the best out of all the classes I've brought so far.  The two male chaperones went out to watch.  One had even picked up coffee for the three of us!  Too bad I don't drink coffee.  But the thought was appreciated!

Our bottle rockets were pretty cool. They shot way farther than I thought they would! One even hit a tree on the other side of the soccer field!  Most left their rockets at Camp Omega to be targets for the men's hunting retreat also going on while we were there.  All of them want to make rockets when we go next year.

All in all, our trip was a success. No one got injured (besides little cuts and scrapes from gaga ball and fort building). They all had fun.  And everyone wants to come back next year!