Camping...

...it's in tents! One of the activity choices was Catchphrase, which the kids loved. Here are some upperclasswomen totally focused on it. I think they are ready for Pre-Calc based on their intensity here. After the three rounds of activity choices, it was time to set up the tents. Girls Camp was in an area called Cubland...which I thought was funny. I was pretty amazed and the competence with which all the kids put up their tents. We just stood around watching most of them. There were a few poles that couldn't be figured out, but for the most part, tent assembly was pretty quick. The boys' tent city (below) was a wild scene. They had less real estate to work with, so the tents were practically on top of each other. When I did my walk-through at 5am, the girls' side was quiet and the boys' side was loud with the sounds of snoring, and it was tough trying to negotiate moving around the boys without disturbing them. Lights out was at 10pm but the funny thing is that so many of them just stayed up and text messaged to communicate. Back in the day, we had to actually talk, which would get us in trouble in this kind of situation. The next day we had Mentor Group Olympics and then face painting. Below is one of my kids getting worked on by every other kid in our mentor group.