Chinese New Year

Wednesday was the first day that our cabin was the messiest one (or at least the first time on a day where they were checked). For this, we had to spin the “wheel of justice.”

Jason devouring his watermelon

Around and around it went, each space representing a different punishment. Slight hope held out for the “salvation” space dashed when it landed on “ITC makeover.” In the past, people have gotten in dresses and make-up for this, but we  found that all the dresses disappeared from the prop house. decided to take a cooler approach to this. Instead, I wore a red cape along with a large hat.

In the evening, we played a game called “world domination.” We teamed up with our sister cabin, Kickapoo this week, and formed on team, which we called “Pooca” (we took the last part of each cabin.)

As Pooca, we first had to hide an Easter egg in our territory. Next, we had to challenge two other cabins to a watermelon-eating contest. Two campers and a counselor from each team faced off. From our cabin, it was Jason and he was the first one done. Our three members won the contest, so we now had five minutes to search for their egg. We hid ours up in a tree, so I mostly looked there, and it was not long before someone else found the egg up in the big bell.

After we found the egg, we officially conquered this teams territory, so we now had to capture more. The other challenges were a large game of tic-tac-toe where campers got to be the pieces and a chant-designing contest. In the end, Pooca conquered all, meaning we won two nights in a row.

Josh’s dress clothes  had been taunting him the last few days. They are hanging up on his feeding tube right next to his bed and every time he lays in bed he just stares at them and smiles in anticipation for the dance. On Thursday, Josh did not have to wait any longer because it was finally time.

First, however, we had ropes in the morning. It was here that we finally came up with the theory that Bob is in fact a reptile. Instead of sitting in the shade by the swing, he went up the path and found a spot of sun to bake in while everyone else got ready to swing.

The dance had a Chinese New Year theme At the dance, almost everyone at the dance got what they wanted.

Bob got to sit by the speaker with his head down most of the night, even during a song called “Put your Head Up.” I tried dancing with him a little and it was too loud by the speaker to tell if he liked it or not.

Lesley got to sit at a table with all girls because there were no other spots by us. A girl counselor asked him if she was feeding her right and he replied, “You can feed me any way you want to.”

Josh also got to dance with a lot of girls, and he got to look good in his purple and grey dress clothes, spiked hair, and freshly shaved face.

As a whole, most of the campers once again looked like they were having a great time dancing all night.