Girl's Camp

The RS President sent out an email to everyone with a Relief Society calling this week asking for volunteers to go up to girl's camp yesterday. The stake presidency wanted a few of us to go up to brt a little with the girls, particularly the older ones that will be coming to Relief Society soon.

Despite the fact that I had arguably the worst attitude about girl's camp of any of the young women in my stake growing up, I thought that sounded kind of fun, so I volunteered. First of all I just want to say that girl's camp in the Huntington Beach stake is a LOT different than girl's camp in Utah. For instance, in Utah we did not have a pool, nobody cooked our food for us in a cafeteria, there were no grassy baseball diamonds, If there was an electrical outlet somewhere I didn't know about it, and we most certainly didn't have a carpeted lodge with a vaulted ceiling and padded chairs to meet in at night. I can't remember ever meeting as a stake at night to watch a movie together. We did have cabins one year, but they were not outfitted with beds and closets. We also had showers, but they were so cold that I think I showered once, and decided it wasn't even worth it after that. Based on all girls I saw who were wearing makeup, jewelry, and were dressed in neat trendy little outfits I'm convinced they had hot showers up there.

Only three of us from the singles ward went up last night, and none of us are originally from HB. Our girl's camp experiences were pretty similar. None of us attended a resort camp, and we were all a little shocked when we passed the swimming pool on our way into camp. I guess it is Orange County, so I don't know why I'm all that surprised. The church rents the camp from the Seventh Day Adventists, so the meals are all meatless, which had apparently led to some interesting dinners. One of the girls told me that the food was fine as long as they didn't serve "fake meat" again.

After our spaghetti dinner we all met together in the lodge and watched the bishops from the wards play some game where they were aksed a question and then the bishop had to get the answer from the girls in his ward, rush up, grab a foam sword and return to his seat, provide the correct answer and if the answer was right his ward got a point. Some of the contestants remained relatively composed, and then there were the bishops trying to throw each other to the ground and Bishop Lang who got spotted choking another participant and received a technical penalty and had to sit out a round. Although he stood up and waived his arms around encouraging the girls in his ward to cheer for him when he received the technical. The ward whose bishop was absent and had a counselor competing won, and I think he deserved it just for the question asking them to provide additional lyrics for to an Avril Lavigne song. To everyone's astonishment he rushed up grabbed the sword and rattled off the lyrics without any assistance from the girls in his ward.

I also landed a babysitting job for Saturday night while I was up there. I'm turning 30 next month and attending girl's camp, and accepting jobs as a babysitter. Something's wrong with this picture...