Sand Creek - Girls' Campout

As mentioned earlier, we are going back in time. We are remembering the lazy days of summer. Actually, we are just posting some of the stuff we haven't gotten around to yet!

One of the highlights of the summer was going on the annual All-Girls' camp weekend. The group consists of aunts, cousins, and friends. We always have a blast! These gals are awesome!! It truly is a highlight of our summer.

We go to Sand Creek by Beulah, WY. The scenery is gorgeous. Our Aunt Barb and her friend Vicki plan the weekend and tell us what we are eating and what to bring. The weekend consists of eating, tubing down the creek, geocaching, sitting around the campfire, laughing, and having a contest of some sort.

Here is a picture of Vicki cooking up some vittles.


Here is a picture of the pink flamingo that is the camp mascot of sorts. It used to have a partner, but evidently it was stolen out of camp one time.

As mentioned, each year there is a contest. The contest this year was most creative apron. Here is a picture of one of the winners. Vicki's apron was cool and practical with potholders and towels velcro'ed to it. Larissa is in the background. She also won a prize for her apron.

Here is a group picture of all of us sporting our aprons. Back left: Ris, Vicki, Aunt Janet, Annie, Lindsey, Anne, Shannon, Kendra Front: Aunt Barb, Julie and her adorable daughter. Kannon was not there for this picture.

We didn't get any pictures of the tubing adventures, but it was GREAT! Aunt Barb has a camera housing that she uses on her diving trips, so we are still waiting for her to e-mail those pictures to us...

Here is Kendra in front of her camper.

Here is Aunt Barb enjoying a glass of the good stuff!

Annie and I are enjoying nature.

This picture is all of us having a meeting at mid-day. Here Barb, Anne, Janet, and Vicki find a geocache!

Anne and Larissa were geo-cache virgins. This was their first one. Here they confer on coordinates.

Ris and Annie set up the GPS.

Before the campout, Aunt Barb usually sends out the itinerary. For one of the meals, the instructions said "Dress for Dinner." Which probably meant to put clothes on instead of just wearing your swimsuit. Annie read that differently and wore "Old Blue" the promdress. Pretty sure she was the best-dressed person in Beulah!

Here was one of the campfire nights. Making S'mores, drinking toddies, and laughing. Life doesn't get any better than that.

Goodbye summer, we miss you already.