Girls' Camp Day 2: 6-26

We woke to the sound of an airhorn. 5 girls in our tent, including me, were about ready to murder Megan. The night before, she had given one of our leaders an airhorn as her Secret Sister gift. By the way, we are VERY mean in the morning.

We had breakfast, then chose our first activity for the second day of girls' camp. We wanted to go rock climbing before it got too hot, but another ward got to it first. We picked the next best thing: C.O.P.E. I don't remember what it stood for, but the E was Experience, I think.

The first part of C.O.P.E. was team building stuff. The funnest, scariest, and for me, most painful part was the trust fall one. You climbed onto this platform thing while everyone else stood shoulder to shoulder with there arms at 90 degree angles. You had to be stiff as a board as you fell. It was fun. Megan went up and as she fell back, she kinda flailed her arm, which smacked me in the nose and mouth as she fell. We set her down and of course I started crying. I'm so glad Matthew was there. He ran over and put his arms around me. I started hyperventilating really badly. I scared everybody, including myself, but I couldn't stop. Poor Megan felt terrible, but I could only cry and gasp for air every time she apologized. I finally got myself under control, had some water, told Meg it was fine, then got right back in to the activity. C.O.P.E. was a lot of fun, but it's really hard to explain..so...

We had lunch and our two hour break, then we went rock climbing. 5 people got to go rapelling, but I was too slow to be one of the 5, so I went rock climbing first. I only got halfway up when i couldn't find any hand holds, so I came down. I walked, or crawled, back up the mountain, walked through the C.O.P.E. course up to where the rapelling was. Kaylee and Brooke were already up there, so I sat down next to them. I spotted an inch worm on a rock, which kept us fascinated for a while, and we made up a new dance move! :)

Brooke, then Kaylee went down. I asked the guy in charge how high it was. He said 60 feet. Though some other people said 100. I think it was 60 though. I almost inverted (go upside down), but I didn't. My dad is a certified First Responder, so i have rapeller's blood in my veins. It was so much fun!!

The Bishop and his wife showed up. The Bishop climbed all the way up...in mawkasins! Wendy, his wife, kept both feet firmly planted on the ground.

It was dinner time. We went back to camp to get ready for testimony meeting. Bishop Pitt and Wendy always bring us Nelson's frozen custard when they come up to Camp. We'd just got a roaring fire going when it started pouring and thundering and lightening. I was fine, but everybody else sissied out and made us go find shelter. We had testimony meeting without a fire, it was weird. I kinda started crying during Matthew's. I could barely talk during mine because I got all emotional when I started talking about Matthew.

It was still raining a little when we finished up, so everybody sprinted back to our tents. We were leaving the next morning so we packed what we could see in the dark and went to bed.