It sure has been hot and humid this week! Campers, staff, and horses have been hanging in there and making the best of it, but it has definitely been a challenge to stay cool. Some of our riding classes had to be cut a bit short today due to the extreme heat in the best interest of the health of campers, horses, and staff. Tomorrow is supposed to be about the same as today was, so Day Camp will most likely be heading to the pool unless it rains.

The activities we ran today were planned to best maximize our time in the shade. In sports we played water games, consisting of relays and Drip, Drip, Drop (which is like Duck, Duck, Goose, only played with water). In Nature we made Dream Catchers using sticks and yarn. Arts and Crafts was tie-dye day, and by the end of the afternoon there were 60 tie-dyed articles waving in the warm breeze outside the Day Camp barn.

That's a lot of tie-dye!

Resident camp left in the afternoon to go to the pool, so we got to watch the horses from our main herd run out on to their grass pasture before the bus came. It's always neat to watch the horses interacting with each other and enjoying the extra room to run.

Campers and staff watch as the horses come down through the gate.

A horse of almost every possible color.