We were invited out to Camp Niwana today for a Family Fun Day. It was really cool to go back there, it’s been about 25 years since I was there last. Things haven’t really changed. There were activities set up for the kids, they did a scavenger hunt, charades, fish prints an obstacle course and boating! I think boating was the biggest hit for the kids, Dee, Mary and I got some good laughs playing tether ball.

When I was a kid at went to camp there, we had a horrible camp leader named Blacktop (we got in trouble because we called him “Asphalt” which was scandalous back in the day). He thought that we had ripped a cot and he banned us from swimming for the day and made us repair the cot. Honestly, we didn’t do it. I do remember the “fairies” at camp, who would come while we slept and sprinkle fairy dust (aka glitter) outside the cabins. We made houses for them and thought it was the coolest thing. While we were doing our scavenger hunt we took a detour through the Fairy Forest and saw the little houses the new campers had made, some fairy dust and we even made a couple fairy houses as well. Jessie, who is the camp director and someone we absolutely adore, taught the kids about the fairies and they were sold.

We didn’t get a chance to stay for the skits and campfire, the boys were toast but we made a quick stop on the way home for an early dinner at A&W (rootbeer floats!) which was a treat.