Thursday, July 10, 2008

Getting to and resting at camp big canoe

Jon and I got up at our usual time on the morning of the 9th, to get an early start to camp and begin our day off! We jumped in the black river as a wake up, packed up the tent and tarp, and were out of there in record time (it helped that the bugs were bad too!)!
The bike ride was a short 60 km to camp, but it was muggy, and threatening with rain almost all day! But we got there for a lunch of submarine sandwiches! Its always a funny feeling when you come back to a camp that you've worked at for a number of years, but have been away from for a while. As usual, both jon and I were welcomed qwith open arms by everyone!
After lunch, we helped Gordo (a good friend of mine since grade 3) spray a wasps nest, then jon and I joined right in on some extreme kayaking daily rotations with doug. Dinner came around quickly, and we were eating more food before we knew it. For the rest of the night, we hung out with Gordo and Maddie until we were too tired to keep our eyes open.

July 10 - our rest day here at camp.
We couldn't have timed our stay here any better! Today was the last day of session 1 for the campers, so there was a lot of fun things planned! It started with polar bear swim in the morning to wake up, followed by lake swim after b reakfast. Each session the campers have the opportunity to swim across Hart lake or to party on the bea9h. We experienced both, as I was in a canoe escorting two campers across the lake, while jon played volleyball and body painting on the beach.
After lunch, we helped Sean out with a few odd jobs, the took a nice nap before we met up with Lauren, yet another friend of ours working in Gravenhurst as a lifeguard this summer. Gordo, Jon, Maddie, Lauren and I all enjoyed a banquet dinner of turkey, just like we were all together back in Hamilton. After dinner, we had a camp-wide campfire, where "p- p- p- peanut buttered" to keep the bugs off of us! We hung out in a tent full of staff for the rest of the night, and listened to the soothing noise of the rain falling on the canvas tent-cabins.
Tomorrow we'll be up and out of camp soon after breakfast, to meet up with the other boys again, near Haliburton.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Glad to see you are able to enjoy your days off. Just looked at the London picks and I am glad to see that you are all still using sunscreen :).
Can not wait to see and meet you all in Ottawa this weekend.