Animals, Crushes, and Underwear - Oh my!

Let me start out by saying that I absolutely love my campers. All of them. Sometimes they sure can make it difficult, but I love them all, nonetheless. That said, these past two days have been trying, due to the kids acting up more than usual (probably cause of the ridiculously humid, sticky weather), and goodness knows the weather itself has been a beast. I don't have many stories from this week (yet), but there are definitely some from the past two weeks that warrant sharing.

Of animals . . .
My Wednesday campers are an interesting lot. One of the most memorable of them (by far) is camper Amanda (Alligator Amanda, as decided after our Week No.1 Name Game). She's a very sweet girl who'll talk your ear off if you stand in one place long enough. For our first Pow-wow (with the Name Game), we played good ol' 2 Truths and a Lie.
For the most part, we heard the typical set: I have a brother, I like to play soccer, I've been to Alaska (w/ Alaska being the lie). Then it was Amanda's turn. I have five cats, we live in town, I can talk to animals and understand what they say to me. That's right ladies and gents, guess the lie. (Hint, she and her five cats live nowhere near town.) My Wednesday camper has a very vivid imagination. Throughout the day, she proceeded to share with me her "animal speech" (think Dory ala Finding Nemo . . .) It was very enlightening, and I can now speak a little bit of squirrel, geesese (as I was informed is what their language is called), and whaleish (which surprisingly sounded quite similar to Dory's version).

Of crushes . . .
Again with the Wednesday campers . . . Another of my girls seems to find herself attached at the hip to a certain co-counselor of mine . . . Last week, Avery and Tiffany decided that the best pre-camp morning game was keep-away with Aaron's hat and sunglasses (the keep-away was, of course, from him). During the day, Avery wouldn't go anywhere without Aaron, and if she was being stubborn about anything, she had to talk to Aaron about it (I definitely wasn't cool enough - or maybe cute enough?? - for Avery to listen to me, and she sure seemed to develop an awful lot of headaches whenever Aaron was around . . .
So, tomorrow will be interesting. :o) Ooooh - I almost forgot, while we're on the topic of Wednesday campers (and crushes!) - we have a Choctaw/Cherokee wedding tomorrow for pow-wow! Mr. Patrick is the (reluctantly) lucky man. He seems to think it wasn't a real proposal, but a game, or something . . . I say that I sure took it seriously when he proposed . . . Yeah, last Wednesday was a fun day - three proposals in the course of an hour! Kinda makes a girl feel pop-u-ler -- lar ( ;o) -- Aimee) So at the present, I am engaged to Patrick (Choctaw), Hunter(Comanche), and Counselor Kevin (also Comanche). Kevin is the only of the three who knows of the others, but he has assured me that he's cool with the multiple engagements. :o)

Of underwear . . .
Right. Last Monday, I hear shouts in the locker room as we're all getting changed out of our swimsuits. "Kelly, Kelly! I can't find mumble mumble mumble!" So I go to find my camper Natalie standing stark naked (not unusual for a Monday camper . . .), towel in one hand, emptied out bag in the other. "Kelly, I can't find my underwear!!" "I can see that Natalie, please wrap up in your towel and let's see if we can't find it." "She can have my underwear!!" Someone else's camper who was changing in with mine decided to offer my girl a pair of her underwear. She assured us that it was a clean, spare pair, and I told her thanks, but we'd just find Natalie's . . . After another few seconds of looking, the undies in question turned up rolled up in her shorts. Problem solved, underwear found. Hooray. :o)

Never a dull moment with my campers. I love it.