It's another day in August here in Georgia, where the weather is insanely hot even if you've lived here all your life, and Glitter Girl is here to bring you another segment of "Summer Camp Shenanigans"!
So, where did we leave off? Oh, that's right; the end of the first day...
Let me just say that the first night of camp is always the hardest. Your quality of sleep will be rubbish and you will be zonked out by about 4 in the afternoon if you don't try a little, which most of my roommates didn't. I spent the first night drifting in and out of sleep, and when I was awake, I spent most of my time staring at the exit sign and the glow from the really bright porch light outside. As someone who would much rather sleep in total darkness, that was not a good way to spend my night.
Funnily enough, despite being the least morning person-y person there, I was dressed and ready to eat breakfast before anyone else. Mainly because I was hungry, and hunger is a good motivator.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
After breakfast, we had our first riding session of the week, and since it was humid, the fire alarm in the barn was going off (one of the reasons I hate humidity). Since I was in the second group and we do ground lessons before we ride, we were gonna have to listen to that, and it was starting to give me a headache.
BUT...
One of my lovely counselors decided to do basic horse safety outside by attaching some reins to bucket.
Once again, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
So after our ground lesson, we went back into the (now blissfully quiet) barn and we got our horse assignments. Now, you remember my horse incident from last year, right? Well, I specifically asked not to be assigned to that horse again. And I didn't. But I did spend the seconds before they assigned me to my horse thinking to myself, "Please don't be this horse. Please don't be this horse."
And then they assigned me to a horse named Niner.
I think my roommates thought I was crazy when they said that, because I started doing jazz hands and grinning like I'd just won the lottery. But the truth was, I'd seen pictures of this horse and he was beautiful; he was a palomino, which is a gold horse with a blonde mane and tail.
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| This is Niner, and he is awesome. |
So after asking one of my counselors about Niner's personality (mainly to get my nerves to shut up), we went out to the ring and rode.
And Niner was the sweetest thing! He listened to everything I told him to do, didn't yank the reins, and stood perfectly still when he was supposed to. Well, except when there were flies on him, but if I could reach them, I swatted them off. And since all was going well, I spent most of the lesson showing off.
Yes, I am a show-off.
After riding, we went back to our unit to put on shorts (because summer) and then went to lunch.
At the camp I go to, we have something called Turtle Time after lunch. It's an hour long and it's the only down-time we get during the day. We write letters, get mail, and get changed for whatever's coming next if we have to. And it's pretty uneventful.
And then after that, we went down to the pool to do our swim evaluation.
Which didn't happen, because we were thundered out. Have I ever told you how much I hate rain-free thunder? At least with rain, it has an excuse. But we couldn't go in the pool.
Which was, miraculously, not a problem. Apparently the counselors have gotten a little better at dealing with this sort of thing, because they had a tarp, some dish soap, and a hose. And do you know what you can do with a tarp, dish soap, and a hose?
Slip 'n' slide!
We spent most of the afternoon just sliding down the tarp, getting soap in our eyes, and when the counselors went down the slip 'n' slide (because they are awesome like that), they would hand one of us the hose, and they'd get sprayed!
This is the insanity of camp!
I think we did something after that, but for the most part, we spent most of our day on a tarp, getting covered in soap, water, and mud.
And that was pretty much day two.
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed!
Love,
Glitter Girl
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