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Monday, June 15, 2009

Father-Daughter Weekend

I apologize that we haven't posted anything since the beginning of the month! It's incredible how quickly these past few weeks have gone by in moving up to camp for the summer and getting ready for our season.

We ended our spring programs with a great Father/Daughter weekend June 5-7. The dads and the daughters enjoyed the "HIStory" theme we had for the weekend. It was a great weekend, especially with our brand new corn toss game. We had the 1st Annual Father/Daughter Corn Toss Round Robin Tournament (a very easy name!) and also had a blast at the dunes at Lumberman's monument. We'll post some pictures this weekend when we are in town and have a better internet connection!

Precamp Training and Horse Camp have started this week. The horses and horse campers are doing great, and we are excited for a full week of preparation for this summer season! We have a great group of staff this summer and can't wait to have more campers arrive. Continue to pray for this summer and safety!

Monday, June 1, 2009

Outdoor Education week!

This past week we had the opportunity to run an Outdoor Education program for the Northville Christian 6th grade class. Despite a little bit of rain, everyone had a blast! Volunteers and staff worked hard over our Memorial Day Work Weekend to get camp ready for the group to come, and it paid off!

Not only is our new fridge and freezer unit up and running in the Dining Hall, but the cabins were cleaned and prepped just in time for Northville Christian to arrive for their week at camp. Some other work we were able to accomplish during the work weekend included setting up our bike shelter, cleaning out the craft cabin, clearing away some of the fallen trees from the winter, and just a good general cleaning of our site. Now that's what I call spring cleaning!

We've enjoyed having Northville Christian come to do an Outdoor Education Program with us these past two years, and hope that we can continue to grow this program. Some of the activities the 6th graders were able to take part in included hiking to the beaver's dam and checking out the work the beavers (YES! We have beavers again!) have done this past year,
exploring our swamp, and using the Outer Limits course to do team building challenges and other initiatives. On their first night here, they had the chance to hike through the national forest to the AuSable River, and were able to visit the river again on Thursday at the dunes at Lumberman's Monument. They had a blast running down the dunes and the *cold* water didn't seem to bother them!!



Overall, it was a great week for NCS and they had a ton of fun! Hopefully we can run more programs like this in the future with additional schools! That's all for now, but check back soon as we are about to start our summer season and will have some great updates and photos to share! God Bless!