International Day!
Yesterday, the dining porch was adorned with flags from all over the world as we celebrated International Day! This session we have campers from Chile, China, France, Mexico, New Zealand, the UK, and Russia!
Big Campfire
"Big Campfire" is a highlight of the session for campers here at GAC. At Big Campfire, each cabin group performs a skit, song, or dance. The evening provides a fun opportunity for kids to work together to provide a fun, entertaining performance for the community. Our younger campers (Bears & Tigers) celebrated Big Campfire on Saturday evening, and our older kids (Lions & Eagles) had their Big Campfire on Monday evening. Here are a few highlights from this session's Big Campfires: [gallery columns="1" size="large" ids="5106,5107,5108"]
Carnival Fun!
Ring toss, cotton candy, splash zone, nachos! It's carnival time at Gold Arrow Camp! As always, this afternoon was a blast for all campers and staff!
Check out the carnival highlights above!
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Whadda Week!
My office is above the dining porch, so as I write this recap of this first week of Session 2, I'm listening to our Junior Counselors sing along to Taylor Swift songs on the Dining Porch while they package up popcorn for the Bears and Tigers cabin groups for Big Campfire (Saturday evening). Our Junior Counselors are a terrific group of young adults with a huge number of years of GAC experience between them.
WOWs
We've had a terrific week full of new friendships, new challenges, and a whole lot of bucket filling! One of our favorite ways to fill each other's buckets has been writing WOWs. Each morning at assembly, Cheerio reads a few of the WOWs from the previous day, and then all of the notes are delivered in the camp mail. WOWs are a fun camp tradition that reminds us to thank, compliment, and celebrate each other.
