Laity Lodge Youth Camp LLYC - Addison's 1st Summer "BEST TWO WEEKS"

Cabin: Delta Babes (Since we got in last minute, off the waiting list, Addison was in one of the younger cabins with incoming 4th graders.) She didn't seem to mind at all and had such amazing things to say about all the girls.

Addison's Weekly activities:
Week 1: art and fishing

Week 2: mountain biking

Addison's Counselors:

1. Sophia
2. Madison
3. Claire
4. Jenna - Addie's favorite. So sweet and nice and she always sat next to me. She always swayed back and forth with me. She spent the night with me at sleepover.

Addie's description of her cabin's "sneak-out:"

• Delta Lodge was Addie's "brother cabin," and Jack one of the counselors, was sitting on their cabin porch late that night. 
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• Charlotte, Addie's best friend, while at camp, has an older brother Jackson that was in Carter’s cabin. 
• The girls were almost asleep and all of a sudden their counselors came in yelling to get up and get dressed in dark clothes and to get into bathroom quickly and get their shoes on. They had captured the boys' counselor, Jack, and blindfolded and gagged him with a tie around his mouth to keep him quiet and loaded him up in the truck, Beast, and all the girls had to get in the truck and lay flat in truck bed and “hit the deck,” and drove to “Pebble Beach” at Echo Valley and all waited there. They told the boys cabin that they had to bring "S'mores" in order to release Jack. All the boys from Delta came and with the S'Mores and they had to get introduce themselves to one each other. Then, the boys had to make the S’mores for the girls.

2 Weeks of Camp Confirmed Addison's Milk or Lactose Allergy:

• At check in, we just happened to mention Addie shouldn't have regular milk with cereal due to a possible mild issue, well, they treated her a child with complete milk allergy and Addison had no milk, for 14 days! It 
• Special free lactose free milk. Banana nut instead of Blueberry. No chocolate. Eggs with special lactose free milk. No mac n cheese. Only regular noodles. Outdoor meals, no nacho cheese.  Desserts- sugar cookies or popsicles. No brownies. No Corpus Christi cake.

Other Memories She Told Us About:

• Addie’s cabin did scenes from the movie called Trolls - Addie was Poppe. It was from when the Trolls escaped from the tree. 
• She purposely opted for ONLY cold showers and only took one "about" every other day! She showed us how she LOVED to climb the shower walls at camp.
• The fan at night made it amazing to sleep and she had NO complaints. She said she went to bed without sheet or blanket, but then would pull up a sheet sometime over night. 
• She said some girls brought "Foam mattresses" which made it SO comfortable!
• "Girls night in" - one night they had done a spa night which was so much fun, she said. They dressed as crazy as possible, even wearing her panties outside her clothes and on her head, which was okay, because all the boys were gone at "Boys Night Out," where they slept in the wilderness, under the stars.
• Counselor Pranks- While they were away at "Girls Night Out," sleeping under the starts, the boys came in their cabins and took off all shower heads and poured red fruit punch everywhere. They died the toilet water red and shower curtains all red. All the counselors mattresses were outside.
• During "Boys Night Out"- the girl's counselors, saran wrapped EVERYTHING! Bibles, and threw glitter in everything! They took one of the mattress pads and covered it in glitter and wrapped in Saran Wrap and hung it from the ceiling rafters and when they went to take it down, glitter went flying everywhere in the boy's cabins.

Differences they told me when I asked them about TBarM and LLYC:

1. 2 weeks is better than 1 week, more time to get to know everyone one
2. Pranks!
3. Way more traditions!
4. No schedule at all!
5. The RIVER!!!
6. More time hiking and in nature. Lot more land to explore
7. So much smaller, they knew everyone. They actually saw one another all the time too, and they never really saw each other at TBarM, last Summer.

Gifts for care packages:

• We left them each 2 full boxes of Krave cereal with Baggies to share with their new counselors and bunkmates, which they loved.
• Addison: I sent via Amazon, glitter pen tattoos and stencils and a book, in case she had time to read. Which she didn't outside of quiet time, when she would write letters and journal some. By the 2nd week she was too exhausted to stay awake during quiet time.
• They loved Candy
• YaYa, Aunt Julie and Meme sent them big care packages besides us.
• We emailed them 10 times over the 14 days, a couple of times, having YaYa, Ella Perkins and MeMe send them an email message. When I specifically asked about packages and she told me how some kids got ridicoulsuly amount of care packages and I asked Addie how she felt about that, she said, "It was so nice getting mail. It made my day. I liked the letters more than the stuff."

Addison's letter's she received:

Some of Addison's letters she sent: