A Day in the Life: Family Camp

I have a lengthy, packed-with-information post over at 5 Minutes for Parenting today about the rising popularity of family camps. Check it out if you're feeling particularly cerebral or you're interested in the nuts-and-bolts of what family camp is all about. This is more of an artistic recap of our week, for those of us visually inclined (or those of us who are too tired from another day at the beach to focus our brains on posts with actual words).

During a typical day at family camp, you'll probably wake up happy...

eat a great breakfast...

take a boat ride...

let the baby drive the boat...

grab your best friend and go swimming...

build a sand castle...

shoot a water gun...

catch up on some girl time whilst simultaneously catching some rays...

decide sand makes great lip gloss...

go fishing...

terrorize the fish that have been caught and thrown into a bucket ...

ride the zip line...

hook up your son, who is too young for the zip line, and let him "ride" the line that holds the gear...

make sure he tries riding upside down, like the big kids...

visit the canteen for a ring pop...

or maybe a frozen Lightning Lemonade...

play carpetball...

take a nap...

make some jewelery at the craft shack (note the necklace worthy of a preschool rap star)...

laugh out loud...

admire the clarity of Cedar Lake...

resist nibbling on pudgy toddler toes...

play the cup game (if you don't know it, I can teach you; I was a camp counselor myself at this very same camp one summer a long time ago)...

eat dinner (with a few extra children) at your favorite table...

play "Gorilla Gets the Man" at chapel...

eat s'mores....

watch a sunset...

...do it all again tomorrow.

(Or next year, as the case may be. We miss you already, family camp. And to our friends at Camp Lebanon, thank you. Once again, it was one of the best weeks of the year.)