Another Wet, Muddy Day, But Camp Goes On!

Following awesome grilled hamburgers, potato wedges, and scrumptious strawberry shortcake for lunch, rain showers decided to camp out over Shakamak for a couple of hours. Since there has been no lightning to threaten the campers, camp has continued as scheduled with the addition of even MORE MUD!  Remember, yesterday’s motto was MORE MUD = MORE FUN, so everyone’s truly having…

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Water Balloon Launch

At first glance, the water balloon launch looks like a fairly simple task, but it takes a unique skill. “Fizzles” are much more common than you would imagine. All morning campers in Groups 1, 2, and 3 rotated between the water balloon launch, crafts, and the morning Bible Study. Jaiden Owens launched his water balloon the farthest at an…

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A Muddy Day of Sports

It’s been a muddy day of sports, but MORE MUD = MORE FUN!  Here are day 1 sports stats: Softball (which included an interesting second inning using a tennis racket and tennis ball) Orange 12 Navy 4 Lime 15 Blue 8 Green 7 Gold 6 Hunter 7 Silver 8 Red 10 Purple 12 Kasha Wilder as he was pitching…

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Introducing Sr. Week’s Brand New Sports Directors…

That’s right, this year MSC Sr. Week is introducing a brand new set of Sports Directors…longtime team captains Greg and Stacy King. There are still 36 days until Sr. Week, but Greg and Stacy are busy “researching new games and firming up old games.” Next weekend they plan to sort through the camp trailer with Sr. Week Directors Todd and…

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Jr. Olympics!

Anyone who has ever been to camp before knows the excitement that comes with Jr. Olympics. What I want to accomplish in this blog post is to go over all the events our campers participated in this morning and give you a run down of the obstacle course. We started out the morning with a 40-yard, then 80-yard dash….

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