We arrived and set up camp late Friday evening. While we were getting set up, the girls
played in Grammy’s trailer and put together some lego kits I had brought. They were little sets with a hero and villain
each in their own vehicles and they girls had a blast playing with those. We started a movie (lego sueprheroes) but all
of us fell asleep before it was over.
On Saturday morning the girls ran off to play as soon as
they were awake and the grown ups started breakfast. Other cousins arrived and joined in. My brother and his seven kids had spent the
night, my other brother brought three of his kids to play for the day and two
of my cousins joined us as well bringing their adorable families. So there were tons of kids to play with and
the day was such a blast. We did crafts
in the morning—decorating Frisbee shields, coloring paper masks, cutting tshirt
capes and made marshmallow shooters as our weapons. After lunch our first activity was “Who Am I?” All the kids had a superheroes picture on
their back and had to ask questions to figure out their identity. Then we launched into games. We had plank boxing, lassoing the villains and
shooting the villains with their marshmallow guns. Then we did the hulk smash (smashing
mini-wheat cereal), the hammer throw (at inflatable ninjas) and the kryptonite carry
(carrying green jelly beans with a spoon in their mouth). We did an obstacle course that managed to
challenge everyone (but as with all obstacle courses, ran a little long and we
started to lose attention of spectators).
Obstacles included the stealth rings (hula hoops with bells tied on), hero
mix n match (logos cut into puzzles), the Batline (using a water gun to push a
cup down the plastic line), a spider web (string “laser maze”), the shield
throw (through suspended hula hoops), leaping tall buildings (cereal boxes) and
finally, smashing through the brick wall (made of cardboard boxes). My favorite activity was when they had to
free their comrades from Mr. Freeze (a hero lego figurines frozen in a block of
ice). The kids loved capturing the villains
(wrapping their parents with crepe paper).
And then everyone cooled off with the water balloon launch. Then dads launched water balloons while the
superhero trainees turned their capes around to catch them. Our final activity was the human piñata. The kids were armed with squirt guns and
chase my smoking hot husband around. If
they got him, he threw handfuls of candy.
After that, Grammy and I lounged around while the kids ran
around, repeating some of the challenges, making up their own or just playing
with cousins. Through dinner we had a
blast talking and catching up with each other and after dinner we made super s’mores,
enhanced with salted caramel and peanut butter (so good!). It was such a great day and the kids had a
blast.
When we did happy and sads, all of the kids had to tell us
their favorite activity (usually three or four). L loved that she got Wonderwoman in the ice
block. E loved the obstacle course and A’s
favorite was the human piñata. A’s sad
was that she didn’t get to learn how to fly.
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