Camp Highland

Anna spent the week at Camp Highland, which is a camp affiliated with Highland Church of Christ that meets in Cordova at The Grove at Red Oak Lake (called Camp Cordova when I was young!!). It is a 5 night sleep away camp and many of Anna's friends from school were going to be there. The first year one is eligible to attend is after he/she has completed 3rd grade. Anna was invited by Sophie and Lainie and having survived Camp Tahkodah, we knew she would have a good time.

We dropped her off on the evening of Father's Day. She was in a cabin with many of the same girls she shared a cabin with at Camp Tahkodah in June. We got her set up and met her counselor and that was about it. This cabine had air conditioning and they were lucky that their cabin also had showers inside the cabin. Many of the other cabins did not have shower and a community shower down the path was used by them.

The theme of the camp was 10,000 reasons after the newest Matt Redmond song. It really had the kids thinking about how they could servce Christ, how they could share the love of Christ and how they can make a difference in their families, at school and at church. Anna really had a great week!

I picked up Anna on Friday night at the end of the week. Gary and Caroline left that morning for the Zyriek family reunion in Alabama. We decided with Anna's agreement, that she would be too tired to travel to Alabama and that it would allow Gary and Caroline to leave much earlier. Anna stayed with me for the weekend and Caroline spent the time with Gary. At the Family time at Camp Highland on Friday night, we all sang worship songs, learned about the week and watched the Highlights video produced by Russ Turman. He did an outstanding job. He must not have slept all week because it was amazing. Anna was in the video several times and was able to fill me in on the details on some of what we saw. We will get our own copy of the video later in the summer and can share with Gary and Caroline.

Anna had a great time. Enjoyed the huge slide that was new this year. Loved the night dance parties, loved the girls in her cabin and had an overall wonderful week. She definitely would like to come back next year and do it all over again!

welcome to camp highland!

the girls of cabin 2...ready for a fun week! their cabin counselor named them the glamour campers and gave them all cute nicknames and fun dress up accessories on each of their bunks

anna with mary, one of her counselors

the new addition to camp this year, the huge slide. anna loved it and went down over 20 times she said!

always glamorous anna at pick up on friday!

can't get the picture to turn correctly, but anna was awarded the most enthusiastic in her cabin. imagine that??!!