Spy Week Part II - Protocol One-Nine-Five-One

SPY WEEK 2014: Through the critical intelligence received from our informants discovered during All Camp Clue, the identities of the counselor double agents were finally revealed. But, just as they were unmasked they revealed the most revealing revelation of all...they accused half of our campers of being double agents themselves! 

"Impossible!" we said. "We have the greatest, most loyal, best the best better best campers in the entire world, our campers could never ever be double agents!"

But we had to be sure. The stakes were too high. So, we did the unthinkable. We invoked Protocol One-Nine-Five-One: The Camp Spirit Test. The Spirit Test has not been needed since Lindley G. Cook himself called one in the mid-50s, but we had to bring back this relic to prove camp was double agent free.

Every camper was issued a personal Spirit Identification Card. They had to pass through 16 stations in the categories of Head, Heart, Hands and Health to prove their spirit and loyalty to camp. Once passed, a friendship bracelet string would be tied to each category to indicate completion.

Would camp pass? Only the Spirit Test would tell.

Agent BearClaw prowls the grounds, and calls in Protocol One-Nine-Five-One  (over his super-sweet-functioning earpiece!) to initiate the Camp Spirit Test.

Campers proudly display their I.D. cards.

Filling up water balloons?! To throw off the bridge!? Into the spillway!? At our counselor Renaud!? That's got to take camp spirit.

A Mural on the White House wall!?

Being finger printed and identified on a top secret location on camp for ALL TIME!? (It's under a picnic table. I gave up that secret easy.)

Launching giant marshmallows for virtual S'mores out of a three-person catapult!?

Writing Warm Fuzzies! (More intense than it sounds.)

Blind Color Guard!

What an awesome station map. Good thing we have a professional cartographer on staff.

The Patience Station, where campers had to wait in line to give a camp suggestion to Molly. Suggestion not good enough? Get to the back of the line.

The Cleverness Station at Lakeside.

Slip and Slide Bowling!

Show off your BFI skills by stealing a flag from Roshan!

Shooting Fake Arrows at Tin Cans in the Bowl!

Jem leaps off the dock to go swim where no camper has swam before...beyond the swim lines.

The completed mural.

A completed Spirit ID card and great camp souvenir, all in one.

Who could argue with that spirit?

As we expected, our campers passed their Spirit test with flying-colors (flying colored string, to be exact). We realized that we didn't even need to find the lantern holding the camp spirit, because in our campers we had a 150 camp spirit reserves on hand all week. However, the counselor double agents were so impressed by our campers in the camp spirit test that they had a change of heart and returned the lantern to camp...conveniently, just in time to light the closing campfire.

Despite these successes, we managed to learn nothing more about this "Dark Agent" and his plans to take over Summer Camp. That will have to remain a mystery...until Spy Week 2015 that is.