Roughing it

Yes, I love Girls Camp. I am now a Beehive advisor in my ward and we went to Mutual Dell for camp Tuesday through Friday of this past week. You may remember that Mutual Dell is up American Fork Canyon and that there was an 11-year old boy who was killed by a bear just a month or so ago up that Canyon. It made all of us a bit jittery. However, for me, I was in a text just next to the food tent--on the end of the tent closest to the food tent. I must admit, I was a bit nervous that I would become food for a neighboring bear.

This photo was taken just after the hike with two of my favorite Miamaids. Doug and I taught them both in our Sunday School class. We had a blast on the hike. Apparently, the Camp Leader thought I would enjoy a round two of the hike seeing as I was "physically fit", I went and led another ward on the hike. It ended in Timpooneke camp ground (the one where the bear had killed the boy) and a beautiful view of Mt Timpanogos. I had the girls do some fun poses as we waited for our ride. With this view, I didn't mind waiting a while to the cars to come get us...I let everyone else go first and took the last car back.


Aren't these girls great? We had 27 girls up there at the Stake camp with somewhere around 200-300 girls total. It was a blast. Needless to say, I was ready for some good sleep by the time I got home. I missed Doug, refrigerators (I hauled all my food up there in a cooler--being that the menu was pulled pork, hot dogs and the like), dry ground (it rained a lot!) and my soft, comfortable bed. This was going to be longest Doug and I had been apart...so we couldn't let that happen. Doug came up the 2nd night and spent the night as the Priesthood leader up there. The YW president and the Camp Director let me spend the night in Doug's tent--best night sleep I had up there. We were furthest away from the screaming girls! It was wonderful.