This summer, several staff members at camp crossroads were inspired to write a Camp Crossroads version of the book of awesome expressing the little daily things that make camp life awesome :) Here's what we came up with.....
Part 1: Meal time
- Vector at Breakfast
- BROWNIES!
- When rainbow sherbet is an ice cream option
- When the plates are so clean you don’t have to scrape
- Real cinnamon buns
- Pudding/jello eating contests
- Hopper/Scraper challenges
- Pizza twice in one week
- Missing taco salad or hamburgers/hot dogs for pulled pork at cook outs
- Cooks that sneak you extra portions
- Serving your own hot sauce/ketchup/butter etc
- Making your own.....anything
- Ruthie buns
- French press coffee days
Part 2: Summer Team
- When the guy/girl ratio works out perfectly in the prayer room
- Hitting a goose with a rock/arrow/firecracker or any other destructive object
- When Gabsy cliff jumps
- Contraband peanut products
- Frosted cupcake candle
- Experiments with Bowman
- Sit down prayers
- LIT pranks
Part 3: Cabin Leading
- A cabin that loves FOB and bedtime
- Kids week lights out at 8:50
- When all of your campers come up on the bus
- When you get your cabin cleaned before Saturday breakfast
- Breakfast in Bed/Cabin leader sleep in
- When you get your campers info and there is no medical history
- When the campers are old enough to hop and scrape by themselves
- When your cabin is woken up by the breakfast triangle
- When your campers make your bed for you during cabin clean up
- Prayer partners that run the show at bedtime
- Returning campers whose names you are excited to see on the list
- Having few enough campers in your cabin so that the bunk above you stays empty
- When cabin times are taken up by skits/tubing/blob/tuck shop
- No more skits youth week
- When lunch is short and FOB is long
- When campers plan their own skit
Part 4: Program Staff
- Group naps in the nook at FOB
- When the golf cart was just filled up with gas and it MOVES
- Activity periods off erryday
- The sigh of relief when your activity group is not called to clean the costume room
- Saradie
Part 5: When Andrew....
- Asks if anyone’s hungry
- Quickly closes a staff prayer
- Answers a fire call
- Encourages you
- Catches a goose
- Does song actions at the back of chapel
- Harmonizes hard to Happy Birthday
Part 6: Miscellaneous
- Dock spotting for the waterfront drill
- Listening to walkie talkie convos
- When the buses arrive/leave together
- When staff decide not to vocalize bouquets
- Mail (camp-o-grams or other)
- When its cold enough to wear a hoodie to breakfast
- When talent show is over/ Finding creative ways to evade talent show
- Matchmaking staff members
- Catching a couple while on ark shark
- Going to the craft hut and finding a black permanent marker that works
