Camp Lessons

Lessons learned today....in no particular order.

1.  Tie Dye does not wash off hands very well
2.  Chocolate cups are not as easy to make as Pinterest would have you think.
3.  Multiple stabs at balloon forms for chocolate cups will make said cups collapse.
4.  Six year old boys will not spend more than 4 seconds shaking up a bag of ice to make ice cream in a bag.  Their hands get cold.
5.  Ice cream in a bag makes soft serve look like a brick.
6.  It is really hot today.
7.  Sticks and rocks make very nice "stencils" for tie dye shirts.
8.  A floor covered in plastic eggs is tempting for 6 year old boys to kick eggs as far as possible.
9.  Security guards are not pleased with kicked eggs.
10. Why would there be an exhibit of fish hanging from the ceiling and not expect 6 year old boys to swing them about and bump them into each other?
11. Security guards do not care for swinging fish.
12. Mellie and the boys look quite official in our Mellie Camp shirts.
13. 6 year old boys have about a 12% success rate in snapping non-fuzzy photos.
14. Children love splashing in water of any sort.
15. 6 year old boys can only go 12 1/2 minutes without a snack.
16. 6 year old boys don't care for writing in journals, but when someone insists, they do a better-than-adequate job.
17. 6 year boys will climb on anything...as high as they can go.
18. Great pleasure is found describing in detail the delicate places where chigger bites can be found.
19. If an adult leaves the room, 6 year old boys will just take their shirts off at the dining room table while eating lunch.
20. We have some work to do on our table manners before dining at The Hermitage Hotel.
21. I am very lucky to spend days in the presence of 6 year old boys.