Adventure Camp

Michael’s mom works at the YMCA and every summer, they put on week long camps for kids. Annabelle is old enough now for Adventure Camp and we signed her up to attend. Every morning, we packed her a lunch and swimming suit and she off to camp. She loved it! When she got home after lunch, she would tell me about all the fun things they did. They went swimming, played in some fountains, had races, did crafts, played games, built things, went on hikes. The list goes on and on. She said her favorite part was going on a hunt. She couldn’t remember what they were hunting, but it was really fun.

 

She’s such a social person, I had no doubt she would make friends right away and that was indeed the case. On the first day, she became best friends with one particular girl and I was told they were inseparable the whole week. When the kids were going home on the first day, the girl asked Cynthia (Michael’s mom who was picking Annabelle up) if Annabelle could come over to her house and play. When Cynthia said probably not, the girl was so upset, she started crying. Cynthia talked a little bit to this girl’s grandpa when he came to pick her up and we learned that the girl’s mother is a well known pediatrician in town. Yikes, a doctor’s daughter and lawyer’s daughter, two professions that are well known for their dislike of each other. But as the song from the musical Oklahoma goes, “Oh, the doctor and the lawyer should be friends”. (Well, it actually refers to farmers and cowboys being friends, but you get the picture.

Here’s a video of Annabelle singing the Y Camp song.