Girls Camp....finally

ok, this probably going to be the longest post in history but its basically my journal so deal with it. If you dont have a lot of time to waste. stop now.

MONDAY:
So the Junior Leaders usually go up a day early just to sit around and do nothing. Quite fun. Being in the dirty nature and all. We drove up rather quickly so we just "let ourselves in" and waited around for sista MO for 40 minutes. We had to sleep in the leaders camp the first night because there weren't any ward leaders at our real camp. Rachel, Jenn, Kayleigh and I kinda just sat around and sun tanned until more people showed up. Sis. Taylor made us train to teach first aide. Super Lame. No one knew what they were doing so me and rachel just took the fake swords and fought each other. While we were waiting for dinner we discovered a beautiful thing-the golf cart. Everyone in AZ is used to the Jensons golf cart but none of these girls were exposed to it. So I "borrowed" it. We didn't get far because sis. MOore saw us and yelled something like Katie Toolson! you are too much like your father! Later we roasted marshmallows and had a "candle light ceremony." It was basically the stupidest thing ive ever done. They made us find floatable bark (whatever that is) and massacre it with a knife so that a candle could fit in it. Then they light it and let it go on the lake. Dumb concept, but i think we were all hoping for better execution. Didn't happen. All the lights burned out just far enough off the bank so that no one dared to enter the disease ridden lake.

TUESDAY:
We had a ton of time in the morning to do a crap load of nothing. We decided to go on a hike to this old abandoned camp site. So everything was fine and dandy. We were leading the pack, minding our own business, when Sis. Duncan comes and says make up a ghost story to tell when we get there. Probably the worst decision on her part. We wanted to say that all th ex-girlfriends of Juan Castanos were trapped and got struck by lightning. Our final story was pretty close. A group of girl scouts got stuck and died. The end. So sis. Duncan is like does anyone know what happened here? and so we tell it as instructed and then shes like "Thats the dumbest story ive ever heard. You must have heard that from an idiot. Heres what really happened...." WOW. Thanks Sis. Duncan....
The rest of the day we just helped Sis. MO cuz we were her right hand men, of course. So, she tells us to clean up the SWAK tree house. Then we go to the kitchen to return the bleach (which jenn sprayed in my mouth because she was insistent that it was water...) and the ranger is in there and says this. "You must be our dishwashers! Let me show you what to do!" ugh. Rachels mom was the cook so we had to stay and do it. We were in there for 3 hours and missed the arrival of our ward. We also missed preparing dinner so instead we had clean up. Sucked big time. We played phase 10 and "truth" the rest of the night. :)

WEDNESDAY:
So, today is when we actually do stuff. Jenn, Rach, Kayleigh, and I were in charge of the 3rd years. Its a rather small group so they didn't need as many Jr. Leaders for it. They have these rotations that you go through in the morning and then its free time in the afternoon. Our first rotation is skits. I cant even describe how important these skits are. They are the highlight of the whole week. Were still talking about skits that happened years ago. They're supposed to be funny and they have to go along with the theme (Lighthouses/ finding the Light). Well 1st year skits suck. 2nd years are slightly better. So on so forth. The Jr. Leader skits are ALWAYS the best. Well, we still have to help our assigned years with their skits. So we get in the cabin to work on it and I just get blank stares from everyone. Oh it was terrible. We gave them like a bazillion ideas and they decide to find the princess in the lighthouse. Lame. But whatever we don't have to be in right? Wrong. We practice on Thursday and we suggest to make it a little funny they can sing Can you feel the love tonight when they find the princess. They don't know the words so we had to be in it and sing in the background. Bummer. After lunch we had free time so we went to Rock Climbing. I opted out of it because I was having too much fun teasing the people in the unflattering harnesses. And sis. Anderson was sleeping next to me and she looked hilarious. Then we did Archery. This is my favorite part of girls camp. I don't take it seriously at all. I see how far I can get it and shoot the ground and other peoples targets. It awesome. And sis. Duncan hates/loves me. She got mad at me because someone picked up the porty potty while she was in it and carried it across the field and she thought it was me because apparently I would do something like that.

THURSDAY:
Moment of truth-First Aide. I didn't know what I was doing at all. I was in charge of teaching bleeding and basically told them to stick some gauze on it. Sis. Taylor was in there unfortunately. Otherwise we were planning on telling them to stabilize the person then call 911. She taught most of the class because I guess we left out important information that they were going to forget. Our other rotation besides the blasted skits was this thing with compasses. I truly believe they just did that to take up time. The girls walked around in circles for an hour while me jenn and rach texted under the tree. That afternoon we took a nap and then went to archery and I got enough points to make it into the competition and so did Rachel and Jenn. We took up 3 out of the 5 spots because were constantly at Archery.

SKITS:
This deserves its own section because of how awesome it was. The 1st years skit wasn't too terrible. The 2nd years was hilarious because they were soo cute and kept laughing. 3rd years......no words. 4th years was amazing. Then was the Jr. Leader Skit :) The basic plot was that we had to find what we needed at the light (which was edward cullen). So, Gabbi comes on and is Bella and shes just balls up on the floor and starts whimpering "Im gonna die without my blood sucking over protective creepy vampire! Im going to die!' then a bunch of other stuff happen. Then Jenn and Alex come on as Ron and Harry that have lost their wands and are hilarious. Then this girl comes on and is gollem (sp?). She is the perfect gollem! Then we needed to find a part for these girls who don't talk so they were pirates. that was kinda dumb but whatever. Then I come on as Sis. Moore. haha. Sis. Moore is the camp director. I have also known her since I was 2 and shes my dads buddy. Me and Sis. Moore are pretty tight. Well, at camp she was constantly on her phone texting people and she said crazy stuff. So I come on and start imitating her and then I freak because I lost my phone and start grinding my teeth like her. I could hear her from the back yelling KATIE! This is your last year at camp!! Anyways, we all find edward which is rachel and she has like glittery sweat all over her. It was pretty good. Then the leaders skit was bomb digity. They made fun of these girls from the scotchtown ward and sis. Dial was ME in the play!! She drove the golf cart on the stage and was like "Well....sis. Moore says I can't drive this.......but I don't care! I don't follow rules anyways!"....... The leaders know me too well.

FRIDAY:
The archery competition was a total rip off! The first round I got 80 points and the other girls got 30 and 40. Then two people were eliminated and it was Me, some chick, and Jenn left. Jenn got like 10 points or something and I got 30 and then that Chick got 40 so I lost. DUMB. OK, so it was just a regular day but on Friday nights we have testimony meeting and we party ALL night. At testimony meeting I was lucky enough to sit next to Catherine the preppy 2nd year that loves me and jenn and rach. I love catherine but she is the worst person to sit next to. She was eating in my ear and constantly talking and she started laughing uncontrollably because I told her to please control herself becasue I am about to throw up from hearing you massacre that lolipop. Ugh. I felt so bad because I was completely serious and everyone looked at us. Horrible. Anyways, We walked to the mess hall to play big booty with sis. MO and to raid the kitchen. I had a whole carton of apple juice that we shared straight up. Then we had to go back to our own camps so we did our 1st year pranks. Desert- where you put them under a blanket and tell them to take off whatever is making them hot. They usually take off like all of their clothes until they realize its the blanket. Ooga Booga- they have to copy queen ooga boogas exact moves and sounds so they look like a fool. Then the queen stands up so they will and someone slips a water balloon on the bench and then the queen sits down and they sit on the water balloon. Coffin- You put them on the bench and cover their eyes and lift their leg to "measure it" then pour a water bottle down their shorts. Then we had SB night. This is a tradition of sneaking out of the camp and running around in sports bras. We went to the beach and chilled for a while. The rest of the time Me Jenn and Rach sang really loud to all the girls to keep them awake. We were the last ones to go to bed. Most of the people fell asleep on the tables and stuff.