Girls Camp

Well, last week I went to girls camp.
You know when you first get there, get all set up and have a few activities, you start thinking, "Wow, this is going by fast". Then after the second day is over, you start thinking, "When do we get to go home?". At least that's how the leaders felt.
So I guess I'll tell you about the hike we went on. We were in Darby Canyon just inside of Wyoming in the Tetons. It was absolutely beautiful there and the camp was amazing. Since we were scheduled for camp early this year, there was still some run-off from the snow and the hikes were all muddy still except one. So everyone went on the same hike. Anyway, each group went an hour apart and we were the last group to go. I was told this would be pretty easy, but when we got to the trail, it was going straight up! It seemed like it would still be ok and we passed the time by singing and chanting the whole way up so it kept our minds off how hard it was. But, after over two hours of serious uphill climbing (at least to me), we were starting to sound like little kids asking when we were going to be there. The Bishop and one of the High Couselors was leading the way, and they told us we had maybe 20 minutes left. We were glad to hear that, but we were getting very nervous because we hadn't seen any of the other groups coming BACK DOWN. That means the first group who was 2 hours ahead of our schedule was still up on that mountain! Ugh!
So we kept going and going and going.........
Probably another hour into this, we finally ran into the first group. They informed us that they never got to the destination. It just never came so they decided to head back. Can you imagine? I am so glad I wasn't in that first group of guinea pigs who hiked 2 hours more than us. When we heard that, we were already exhausted so we called it good and stopped to have lunch. So we are all eating and we notice 2 girls are missing. Apparently while the priesthood leaders were helping some of the girls cross a stream, the two girls went on ahead of the group. That means they were probably still hiking thinking there was a stopping point. So one of the other girls and another leader went up to fetch them. These two girls went so far up so fast that they were quite a ways up the mountain. They passed all the other groups and luckily there was one priesthood leader at the furthest point who was making sure nobody kept going past there. He told the girls to turn around. If he weren't there, those girls would have kept going!!! They went SO far.
You know when you are talking and distracted how you don't even realize how far you have walked? Well, that was us. The whole way up we had NO IDEA how far we had gone and going back down was torture! There were just enough inclines going back that we were dying to be done with this. Not only that, once we got to the end of the trail, we had to walk this LONG dirt road to even get back to camp. I about thought I would lose it. I was starting to get mad that they would actually make these girls do such a tough hike!
Well, that night was the night we performed our lip syncs (which we were all so tired to do), and the Stake leaders announced that they were sorry about the hike. They apparently got the information wrong on where they were supposed to take us and there was never going to be a destination!!! We could have kept walking FOREVER! So, I believe we ended up doing like 8 miles or something (That is a lot for me!). Crazy!
So needless to say, it took my body several days to recover from all that, I just don't torture myself enough these days to be in shape enough for that crap!

Oh, and since I mentioned the lip sync, I'll let you know our ward got the award for best lip sync! We rock! We did a basket toss, some gymnastics and lifts. Kinda fun when the girls are real talented and their leader was a cheerleader back in the day! I may not be small enough for someone to lift me anymore, but I was still strong enough to throw those girls around! They want us to perform it at the next ward party. We also had the best props thanks to me. (Pat myself on the back!) I painted some awesome suff, these are the pictures. Our theme was "The Little Mermaid". The crab was worn by the 2nd counselor who did the actual lip sync-ing and the girls traded off being the mermaid. I didn't actually draw the mermaid or the belly of the crab, but I made them look nice after they were drawn. I drew and painted the sea horse, snail, flounder and crab claws though.
Gonna go....
As Drew would say, "Peace"