Camp Day 4 - "Pretty good day"

Dear Diary,

I stayed up way too late last night. I woke up at 7am, and couldn't go back to sleep., I laid in bed for like half an hour, then figured I might as well just get up and get started on my day.

First up, the Movie cabin to watch "Hotel Transylvania". I found a couple of friends there sitting a couple of seats apart, and I sat between them. It sounded like it was gonna be a good movie, but the way they have it set up, I guess to keep the noise down around camp, we get special headphones, and mine weren't working. I tried a few times to get them to work, but I couldn't, so I wandered off to find something else to do.

Technical difficulties abound in Second Life, and the 'real problem' was that the video wouldn't play for me. I reinstalled quicktime, downloaded and installed codec packs, even uninstalled and reinstalled Second Life, and tested it on 2 other alternate accounts. I must have been doing something out of order, cause all my personal tests worked fine, but the movie at camp just wouldn't play for me.

No matter, we've got a TV at home. I didn't come to camp to waste 2whole hours of the day watching movies I can watch when I'm bored!

It was about breakfast time anyways, so I decided to go to the mess hall. FINALLY they had eggs and bacon. After starting every morning with the counselors singing "wakey wakey, eggs abd bakey" we FINALLY got to have eggs! I was so excited and hungry, I had two helpings of scrambled eggs! I gave Pygar some of my bacon. Actually he stole some, then I gave him more.

After Breakfast, I played "hunt the goose" to find Mari. I ended up finding her way at the top of the sledding hill, taking pictures, of course. I took a picture of her while she was taking pictures of camp in the morning light. Then her friend Johnny showed up, and we joked around for a while, then Mari packed up her camera stuff, and we all three rode a sled down to the bottom of the hill, knocking down some snowmen someone made on the sledding hill.

Then Mari got called to the counselors cabin, and so Johnny and I went to a "fairy hunt" game. At least that's what they said it was. What it turned out to be was really just another 'story time' event, meant for the babies.. with one of those "can you find the pink flower?" hidden picture books. Most of the kids there had cutesy little fairy wings, or butterfly wings from halloween or ballet costumes. Johnny decided he wasn't interested in this event, and wandered off to do something else. I wandered over to the crafts cabin and found a couple of cardboard boxes in the free-supplies pile, and made some wings. They came out pretty good... though more like a jetpack than fairy wings! SCIENCE!

Then I ran around with my new wings on, to find Johnny. He was at a "make a train chain" event, where basically the kids all lined up and played follow the leader, marching all around the camp trying to find any other kids to join the line. At the end of the event we had like 30 kids in the chain.. though things got difficult when we had to go over the rope bridges and some of the kids were scared of heights. I didn't want to go either, but I was following Johnny, and he didn't seem scared a bit. There was lots of screaming as kids tried to run to catch up and the bridge started shaking.

There was plenty of "only in SL" insanity, with our chain essentially consisting of 30 bowing balls connected via bungie cords as far as the physics engine was concerned.  We were dragged willing or not, through caves and over bridges and jumps across the ravines and cliffs. And with the tendency for the line to curve rather than corner, those in the end of the group tended to get dragged off the sides of cliffs and miss bridges, and end up trapped inside the walls of the caves. Combine this insanity with the laughing of the counselors on voice, their teasing each other that they were killing children again, the laughing, and screaming gestures of the various kids in the line.. and it was exciting, ridiculous, and above all, hilarious

Eventually it had to end, and there was some free time afterwards. I got out the football helmet they gave me for that one giant-football cabin-wars game, and I ran around playing Buzz Lightyear with my new wings. The little kids didn't know what I was even talking about or who I was supposed to be. Oh well, I had fun.

Then it was off to Yoga, and I really enjoyed that. Miss Honey, one of the camp counselors, has the most relaxing voice ever. She should make yoga tapes! I'd save my allowance for two months to buy one if she did. Then the funniest thing happened. Miss Honey got to the part where she said "find your happy places" and was telling to think of a place that made us happy, or a thing or a person who made us happy, and just at that exact moment, Mari showed up looking for me!

After yoga class, Mari and I ran off to explore the caves. Outside one of the caves, we heard a counselor running a story time at a campfire with S'mores. So we ran over and had some of those, and listened to the story.

Mari and I talked and chatted and told secrets and such, we talked about our families, and about how long we've been friends, and hopefully getting together after camp is over. We talked about our sadnesses in our past too, and how Valentines day is stupid, and we talked about watching movies and on and on.

 After dinner, it was of course time for cabin wars. This time we had a giant hamster ball that we had to get 4 kids from each cabin in at a time.. and then race against 2 other cabins on our side of camp to try and get through a big obstacle course with a lot of twists and drops. It was crazy, but we all had a go, and boy oh boy, can those little babies run! Maybe it was cuz our ball was lighter than the other cabins, or who knows.. but in the four races we had, we came in first twice, and second the other two times. We came in first place for our side of camp, and in second place for the entire camp! That was the first time we got that high of a score in cabin wars!

After that, I spent some time putting my pictures away.. now I can't find them.. but I know they're here! I'll find em soon. But now it's time for bed, so goodnight diary.