Summer Camp!

This is Jr.

The turtle got bored of me taking pictures of him, so he turned around and started walking away

We have successfully concluded two weeks of Summer Camp and we are having tons of fun here at Pfeifer Camp. Every day is a new adventure as we participate in Arts & Crafts, swimming, craw fish hunting, camp out, cookout, and various other experiences. For the past two weeks I have been a "floater". This means that I have not actually had a group of campers yet, but that I get to "float" around from group to group. On the first week this assignment of floater was intentional...the second week I was recovering from strep throat though and became a floater by default once I felt better. Needless to say though, now I should have a group of campers for the next three weeks until Honor Camp. In fact, today my group of 11 girls arrived today ready for adventure. I have the oldest girls group, which means they are going into 7th, 8th or 9th grade this next fall. The group of girls are AWESOME so far and I am excited for us to get to know each other.

We caught three catfish while craw fish hunting.

Here are some random pictures from the last few weeks. I can't post pictures with campers in them on-line, so that is why I don't have many pictures from summer camp as of now. These are pictures from Summer Staff Training.

Well Hello little Craw Fish

The rest of the trip

Our supplies.

 Here are a few pics of our time spent mountain biking at Clinton Lake.

Once we arrived we picked our our campsite and got right on the trails.

Emily may or may not have flew off of her bike into this small creek.

The trails were muddy and quite difficult at times, but we sure did have a good time. And we both always have a good time getting dirty and gross, so even though we were walking our bikes along the trails half the time, we still had fun. As a side note, my bike was especially fun to ride. It was borrowed from Emily's roommate and I can't say that it has been well taken care of. Don't get me wrong...I appreciated it... but the rusty chain, the inability to change gears out of the lowest gear, and squeaky breaks made my experience a challenge at times. This is all on top of the fact that the conditions of the trail were less than desirable because of all the mud. Next time I go mountain biking though I expect it will be a bit easier. 

 On the second day we found a nice little beach spot where we got to hang out and relax. As a bonus we also got to wash the mud off :)

Once back to the campsite we did many fun things, like making Spam Mac N Cheese, playing frisbee and travel scrabble.

I successfully ruined this pair of pants. 

Rough N Tough bikers right?

We even proceeded to play Banana Grams style.

mmmmm. You're jealous. You just don't know it yet.

First Stop... Mt. Magazine

   Happy one-week off from Pfeifer to me- and I am off on an adventure. An adventure that will mostly happen in Lawrence, Kansas while visiting my "Adventure-Buddy" Emily/Ticon....but for the first night it was spent at Mt. Magazine. After a scenic route along Highway 10 heading west, I arrived at about 4:45 and set up camp at site 2 at the campground. After making a nice meal of Annie's Mac & White Cheddar cheese and canned turkey I headed off for a short hike along the North Rim Trail. It was recommended by the lady at the Visitor's Center, so I figured I'd check it out. There were a couple good view points of the Ozarks and it was a pretty moderate hike. After finishing up there I headed back to my site and sat down to have a drink and read a book.

   The next morning I broke down camp around 8:30 after a breakfast of oatmeal and a banana and decided to do a quick jaunt up the trail that leads to the HIGHEST POINT IN ARKANSAS at 2,753 feet. It only took me about 20 minutes to hike and was only about 160 feet more for me to hike up to the highest point. After the hike I headed further northwest to Kansas!