It is Western Week here at Camp Tawanchi! Our Counselors in Training planned a new archery activity for us! It was really fun. They filled a trash bag with balloons and said it was a buffalo! You really had to use your imagination! It was fun shooting at a different target and we got to pop the balloons! They also had us pan for gold beads and make a necklace of the gold beads. They did a great job!
Miss Kathy and Miss Sarah from the Brothers of the Winds came and explained what life was like on the plains. They had to catch all their own food, make their clothes from animal skins and build their own homes. They showed us some examples of animals skins and how they made cloth from sheep hair or wool. It looked like lots of work.
This week the USDA recalled tomatoes. We did our best to convince Miss Elaine and Miss Mary that ALL vegetables had been recalled and that we should not have a vegetable snack this week. They served us carrots and celery anyway. Then they told us we were going to have pudding the next day! We make it in jars and we get to shake it up and serve it in an ice cream cone. They are very good! Well, after swim Miss Elaine shared that she had heard on the radio that milk had been recalled and we could not have pudding because pudding is made with milk. This was very sad news, yet when we arrived at snack there was pudding! Miss Elaine had told us that so that we always remember to tell the truth. Root beer floats were the best snack of the week!
We had our first fishing day! The girls caught one fish and one turtle. The boys, well we will try again next week!
