The most mind-blowing summer camp!!!

This summer, my friend Lindsay (Art teacher at Colby) and I decided that we were going to do the most amazing, super, incredible, fantastic, unbelievable, out of this world, extraordinary, mind-blowing summer camp EVER!!! So, we did! It was called Extreme Camp Colby... and extreme, it was! We did a P.E./Art Combo camp and had themes for seven weeks. The themes were: Sports on Wheels/Urban Art, Creative Movement/Glass Art, Olympic Sports/Action Art, Rock Climbing/Ceramic Art, Water Sports/Water Color, Hiking/Backpacking/Art Inspired by Nature, and Xtreme Adventures/Abstract & Pop Art. We did the most incredible things! Some days, I'll be honest, I was glad we all made it back in one piece! :) The kiddos LOVED it and I had a BLAST with Lindsay and the kids! It was definitely a job to jump out of bed in the morning to go to!!! Here are some pics from week 1: Sports on Wheels Week/Urban Art.

For three of the days, we went mountain biking around Park City. It was beautiful/reeeeeaallly muddy! We were all completely covered in mud, especially those of us who called ourselves "extreme" and went straight for the mud puddles! *cough Lindsay *cough Heather. It was wicked fun!... Minus the parts when the kids were complaining that they were tiiiiiiired, when are we tuuuuurrrnning arroooouuund?, I'm thiiiiiiiiirrrsssty. Here's to you kids... bring your own dang water bottle, you signed yourself up for this, you will get zero pity from us!... We look happy, don't we?

Muddy, muddy, muddy...

We went to see the coolest Urban Art. We went to downtown SLC. They had these garage doors that people had painted. The kids all sat and reflected. Lindsay talked to them about graffiti and the layering of colors, etc. The kids all chose their favorite garage door, drew it in their sketch books, and took a pictures with themselves in front of the door to glue into their sketch books. These two were mine and Lindsay's favorites!

We went to Boondocks and rode the Go-Karts, Bumper boats, etc. I drove one of the smaller campers in the big go-karts... she screamed the whole time that I was a crazy driver!! Whaaaat? Me? No way. I'm just EXTREME BABY!

Another day, we went to a students house that has a trampoline, basketball courts, horses... I know.. it wasn't exactly "sports on wheels" but we told all the kids we were going to put the horses on roller skates and call it good. :) It was really fun though! The kids really enjoyed the horses, and Jason really enjoyed teaching kids tricks on the trampoline!

The last day was probably the coolest of this week! We went to Solitude Ski resort and rode Mountain Scooters!!!! It was so much fun! We rode the ski lift up to the top and took a road back down the mountain! The first part of the road was dirt and sticks and SNOW (in June!!), and the last half was a gravel road. We had some wipe outs.. Only one person passed out.. no big deal. Eek! It was ok though. She's a tough mama and went over her handlebars because of pulling the front brake. (Sometimes, we all learn the lesson the hard way). She had ripped up her hands and skin on her hip, but got up and said she was ok. Later down the road, the two of us stopped to wait for the last rider. As we were standing there, she said to me (very slowly and starting to slur her words), "Heather... I'm feeling really light headee...." Aaaand she passed out! Luckily, I caught on to the slurred speech and dropped my scooter to catch her. When she came to, only like 30 seconds later, she looked at me and said, "hah! I've never passed out before!" It was crazy! So, I walked our scooter/bike down the mountain and had her wear my camelbak drinking water like it was her job. We got to the bottom and had the Solitude people come check her out. She was ok, we think she passed out from the pain. She never even cried!!! Unbelievable... THAT is extreme!!!
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I love summer camp!!!!