Camp Day 1 - "Getting there is half the fun"

Dear Diary,

Things did not go quite according to plan. Lemme 'splain.

I didn't sleep at all. We can just start right there. The bus was supposed to pick us up way early in the morning, and I was too excited, and worried about oversleeping and missing camp altogether! I decided that I'd just stay up all night and go in the morning, then maybe fall asleep on the way there, or after we got to camp.

The time came, that was on the note we got, and Mommy still wasn't home. Aunt Kelly was there tho to watch us kids, and she reminded me that sometimes things happen in ways we don't want, and that Mommy loved me with all her heart, and would move mountains if she could, to be here to see me off. Aunt Kelly suggested I write a note to tell Mommy I loved her, and I did. And then the hours passed, and the bus didn't come.

Then the storm came, and we understood why Mommy wasn't home yet. The snow had gotten really deep, and she didn't want to drive in it, plus the phones were out. This also explained why the bus was.. 3 and a half hours late picking me up. Boy was I tired at this point!

Since Mommy wasn't going to be with me, and Aunt Kelly had to stay with with the babies, I went on the bus alone, which was okay. Aunt Kelly gave me the lunch Mommy had packed for me, and I ate the twinkie on the bus.

The bus took us to a train station, and we all got to ride a real steam train to camp. Each cabin group of campers got their own car on the train, and that's when I realized almost all the other girls in my cabin were little kids.. really little. The oldest aside from me was maybe 6, and I'm 8.

Anyways.. the train ride was exciting, ad there was an avalanche while we were in a tunnel, and everything went dark and it was very scary. Scarier prolly cause all the little kids were screaming like they were dying. I think it might have been like a fake avalanche, just to scare us, cuz when the lights came on and everyone stopped screaming, we were stopped and at the station. More like a amusement park ride than a real avalanche. It was cool tho... except the screaming.

so much screaming.

After that tho, we walked into a tunnel that went up into the snow.. looks like the blizzard that hit Somersley hit here too. It's in the mountains, and there's snow everywhere. They walked us right up to our cabin.. the purple one, cabin one. And then I saw my bunk.

I was a lil frustrated.. cuz they had my Daddy's last name for me, instead of Mommy's. I asked the counselor there if they could change that, and he said they couldn't.. but I could put tape up to cover it if I wanted. I did that, and then I put up my strings of lights and my poster and my Dr Steel flag, and then.. I put up my picture of Mommy an' me.. and then I actually just fell asleep right there, right in the middle of turning on my laptop!