Saturday, November 6, 2010

Sky Ranch

On Oct 25-27, Breanna and I went with her fourth grade to a place called Sky Ranch. It is a church camp that hosts kids year round. It is a huge thing for 4th graders around the state to go there for a three day field trip.

I was lucky enough to go as a chaperon :) There were 8 cabins full of kids from our school, with 14 kids and 6 adults in each cabin. Our cabin was the best because it was right on the lake and we got a lot of exercise by climbing a huge hill three or so times a day (many of the moms were complaining about the hill, but it really wasn't bad at all).
Each day the camp had the whole day full of activities. Some were a bit more fun than the others, but the kids seemed to like everything. They learned new games and songs, ate tons of junk (I classify the cafeteria food as junk too), learned about Texas history, about Texas Native Americans, about Texas native trees, played mini-golf, tether-ball, and soccer, learned about orienteering and had scavenger hunts (where we won by cheating [I didn't listen to the rules]), etc.

When Breanna was at the Native American class she was given a Native American name and was painted on her face as part of the ceremony. Her name was "Radiant Day" which I thought was very appropriate because she is just like a radiant day (most of the time:).

If you ask Bree what her favorite part was, she will say everything. My favorite part was that none of our kids in our cabin or bus threw up (there were several incidences of throwing up, yuck!!).

It was a fun adventure for our little gal.

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