End of Staff Training!

On the final night of staff training, most of the sessions had been held, most the plans had been made, cabin assignments were given, so there was only one thing left to do...we needed wrap things up by playing the:

So YOU Want to be Co-Counselors Game Show!

Bowls and spoons. Classic Camp buzzers.

Buzzing in is harder than you thing though.

And even when a team managed to buzz in...

Our Senior Staff hosts were not easily impressed.

Co-counselors needed to work together...

Confer...

Debate...

Smile...

And pose...

Their way to victory. 

Our judges kept dutiful score.

And what did the winners get?!

To spin the wheel, of course!

Yes! It landed on the mystery box!

Mystery box! Mystery box! (What was in the mystery box? Don't ask. It's a mystery.)

 Then!

The next morning it was off to...

COURSE AREA PRESENTATIONS!

The E.E. Staff taught us all to build survival shelters.

Tim's comfortable!

Everyone's comfortable. We're moving in.

A good team helps you in Survival class.

And everywhere else on Camp, too, for that matter.

Then Creative Arts taught us to jam in junkyard band!

And make our own fireworks in preparation for the 4th of July.

Glitter it up, Kuba.

Creative times with Creative Arts in the Craft Shop.

The band's album cover.

The band launched into a percussive,

Fireworky tune...

And the artists joined in to back them up visually, as it all came together.

But it ain't Camp without some Archery.

Bows!

Arrows!

Balloons!

What more do you need?

Campers!

Campers is what more you need! As fun as Staff Training is, we always get to that time where we've trained up, prepared all we can, talked and planned and dreamed about the summer as much as possible can, and it is simply time for the campers to show up. 

Yes, that time comes at the end of every Staff Training.

And this summer, that time is right now.

Yup. It's time to start Summer Camp.