Nintendo Day!

Get out your wii-motes everybody, because today was Nintendo Day! It was also the start to Week Five!

We started with camper introductions, having everybody shout their name proudly so we would all know it. Then we had groups! In Active Games, we competed in throwing events in the Olympics! In Arts and Awesome, we prepared and wrote scripts for movies! In ADL, we played Family Feud! It was a great start to the day, and set us up perfectly energy-wise for our special event - Nintendo Day!

To celebrate our love for all thing Nintendo, we played Duck Hunter (with the lovable Sam "Flatbread" Thurston serving as our duck), Dance Dance Revolution, and learned how to defeat goblins like Link. Then, everybody participated in distracting the staff as they competed in a real life Mario Kart! It was a lot of fun, and we were ready to start lunch at the end of it. After lunch, we had volunteer break, and went for a swim. More awesomeness to come tomorrow!

Dave Polansky!

Friday we had a very special guest at camp - the one and only David Polansky! Dave is a fantastic musician in the Boston area who plays piano, trumpet, sings, and writes awesome songs! Everybody loved hearing all the Polansky classics, including "The Alligator Song" and "I Love Dessert." Check him out now!

We also had some stellar groups. It was hygiene day in ADL, so we had a lot of fun learning about shaving cream and toothpaste (and coating it on volunteers!). In Arts and Awesome, we painted! In Active Games, we solved a puzzle and played Volunteer Bowling! It was a blast.

The day ended with a nice swim. We can't wait for Week Five!

Thanksgiving Day!

Today we celebrated our favorite Camp Arrowhead holiday - Thanksgiving Day! We started it all out with groups. In Active Games, we played mini golf (there were even a couple of special holes - we even had a hole going up to the basketball hoop!). In ADL, we played sound bingo! In Arts and Crafts, we made action figures out of clay!

After groups were over, we got ready to start the holiday. Ben and Clayton started us off with a story of the first Thanksgiving, and then we had a variety of groups - fishing, a pie-eating contest, making "thankful for" mats, and going on a turkey hunt. Then we had a feast cooked by the staff, led by Sam and Tim!

After Thanksgiving was over, we went swimming! Before we went in, Sam and Clayton entertained us all by putting fish in their bathing suits! Ha! It was hilarious, and the swim was awesome. Week Four ends tomorrow - this summer is going by too fast!

Dance Partay!

As we brace ourselves for the festivities tomorrow (it's Thanksgiving Day!), Arrowhead went in to full gear being awesome today. We started out with groups - in Active Games, we ran relay races! In Arts and Awesome, we made songs and dressed in sweet costumes! In ADL, we made delicious cookies! The fun didn't end there, of course - we then had an Arrowhead Dance Party! The dance party was amplified by the crazy antics of Ben and Clayton, who sprayed everyone with water from the roof of the Arrowhead lodge. The day ended with an extended swimming session. Bring your appetites tomorrow! It's Arrowhead's very own Thanksgiving!

Manly Mohawks!

Today was another fantastic day at camp, and a lot of the fun came from our new hairdos - campers and volunteers alike joined the mo-hawk bandwagon, and now we have a small army of totally awesome hawk-wearers.

Aside from the hair festivities, we also had some super fun groups! In ADL, we made a large dream catcher using yarn. In Active Games, we played baseball! In Arts and Awesome, we colored in our own specialized drawing books. Groups were special today because they were longer than usual, which gave us more time to have fun with them! After groups, we had lunch, volunteer break, and an extended swim. Looking forward to giving out some more righteous haircuts tomorrow!

Circus Day!

Ladies and gentlemen in the center ring we present... the Camp Arrowhead Circus Day! It was an awesome day, and it all started with some camper introductions, because Week Four has just begun! Then we had some awesome groups - including finger painting in Arts and Crafts, various forms of target practice in Active Games, and performing skits in ADL!

Then we began Circus Day events. Campers learned to ride elephants, tame lions, and defeat evil clowns. Then the staff presented our very own circus! The circus included Siamese clowns, a strong man, an acrobat, a unicyclist, a juggler, and an awesome ring master. It was so much fun! Then we ate lunch, and had volunteer break (a few volunteers and staff members alike received mo-hawks during the break!). Then we went swimming! What a great start to the week!

Team Hoyt!

On Friday, we had a very special guest visit Camp Arrowhead - Team Hoyt! Team Hoyt is the incredible father-son duo of Dick and Rick Hoyt, who compete in marathons and triathlons all around the world. There story resonates very well with the Arrowhead community because Rick has cerebral palsy, yet despite this disability, keeps the motto, "Yes you can!" It was awesome to see such inspiring guests!

The rest of the camp day was great as well, including groups and swimming. We can't wait for Week Four - it starts tomorrow!