The Olympics at ITC

On Monday morning, we woke up to Eric’s blankets and sheets tossed everywhere except for the actual bed. He spent a lot of the night getting out of bed and approaching us to tell us to put him back in bed. We only fell for this a few times before we decided to let him do it himself.

Nathan preparing the slip-n-slide

We have another talent show this week and Richard is without a doubt the most excited about this in our cabin. He spent his rest period practicing in the screen house for his big Aerosmith performance.

At night, we had a slip-n-slide, which was yet another opportunity for Calvin to enjoy himself playing in water. He went down every time with a huge smile on his face. I was happy too  because instead of using water from the dirty lake this year, we used hose water.

Tuesday afternoon was a rough one for JJ. We started off with a nature memory game. He stormed out a couple times and I was able to get him back in by finding books for him to look at while we played. The third time, however, I was not so lucky. This time he threw his glasses, something he does every time he is angry, causing the lens to pop out and the nosepieces to break. After he realized the nosepieces were not fixable, he threw them causing them to be lost forever.

The afternoon only got worse for JJ when I brought him to the bike track and he fell only a few laps into his ride. “It’s the end of the world, I’m dead, I’m dead!” he yelled, even though his only real injury was a scratched elbow.

Even though JJ had a bad time biking during sports and rec, our other campers were busy winning a competition.

Going along with the Olympic theme, our cabin had to rack up as many points as we could in the hour. Seth got points by throwing a football while Jason got points by shooting baskets and Eric bowled a few strikes.

However, the most important player in our cabin success was Calvin. Another way to score points is by riding bikes around the track, one of Calvin’s passions. Calvin racked up 60 during the time, giving us a total of 138 points, hopefully enough to bring home the gold medals. 

In the evening, we had more Olympics. Seneca and Chippewa had Scotland for their country, so we decided to paint beards on the campers to represent the typical Scottish person.  I do not think many people understood the beards, but I was happy with it