Update from yesterday: Pop bottle rockets was fantastic. Our leader didn't give too many instructions, but my kids came up with interesting ideas to make their rockets fly differently. We broke two records shooting them off... one girl got hers the highest I've ever seen (it didn't go that far) and we broke the distance record too! It was the first one we shot off. The rocket took off like a missile. It went so far we couldn't find it in the woods! The builder kept saying, "It musta gone in the lake!" over and over. I was a bit skeptical. Mine shot a similar distance (furthest distance mine has ever gone!) and we found mine close to the path down at the bottom of the hill past the trees. Very far. This morning while paddling back to the canoe landing, we spotted something gray and green and plastic-y bobbing up and down along the shore. It was the lost rocket!!! That definitely broke the record for distance and the 6th grader couldn't keep the smile off his face.
Last night the kids slept pretty well in the cabins. We sang a bit extra at the campfire, made smores, played a bit of gaga ball, then got ready for bed and did a half an hour of read-aloud time on the boys' side of the cabin. The girls didn't want the boys on our side, and I'm kind of glad it worked out that way because there were a lot of stinky feet polluting the air! They boys were so kind and set up a mattress on the floor for me to sit on so everyone could hear me and I could still be comfortable.
After read-aloud we had a bit of free time in the cabins, then lights out and talking for a while. Man, the two chatty girls kept whispering and whispering. At 10:15 I finally shut them down. 6:00am one of the chatty's alarms went off and she couldn't find her device to shut it off. Sigh. They laid in bed for a half an hour whispering on and off. They tried to get our male chaperone to go outside and supervise gaga ball, but he wasn't budging until 7am anyway. The girls were kind of annoyed they got up so early for nothing. But they did get to play from 7:15-7:50.
After a delicious spaghetti lunch, we read to self for 20min and did read-aloud for 20min. Ugh, we are two chapters from the end! Not enough time to finish at Camp. I could tell they were restless and ready to head home. On the way back, we swung by my house-in-progress since it's on the way. People were working on it! We got to see guys pouring the basement concrete and we got to climb up onto the main level. It was so cool to see the progress they've made and hear what's going to happen next. They'll need volunteers to build soon, so I need to find out what the process is for getting volunteers signed up to work...
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