The second Mother-Daughter Weekend brought 65 people to camp for a weekend of fun, designed to give prospective campers a taste of camp and give them the confidence to enroll in one of the summer sessions. Several current campers were with us as well, sharing a weekend at camp with their mothers, and helping show the prospective campers around camp. Grandmothers, moms, and aunts arrived on Friday with their future campers in tow. After moving into cabins, the group had a tour of camp, dinner in the dining hall, and Council Ring complete with challenges, singing and s'mores. 
 
Saturday morning the girls were divided into groups for four classes: horseback riding, nature, zipline, and arts & crafts. By lunch time the girls were excitedly talking about the horses they rode, the incredible zipline, the felt blankets they made, the baby raccoons and squirrels they cuddled, and the snakes they held! Canoeing, swimming, and fishing followed and then all jumped on Pepe's truck for a hayride to Junior Camp. The girls were very interested in inspecting the cabins they would sleep in, seeing the Junior waterfront and all the activity areas.
 
Dinner was a cookout by the lake, followed by mother-daughter Double Trouble. All the pairs in costumes trekked to the Kiosk for a rowdy game, much like musical chairs, but with more running and laughing. Sunday morning breakfast of coffee cake was followed by Church in the Wigwam, planned by Karen Barlow Parrish and May Douglas Smith Bumpus. The weekend's events ended with a mother-daughter egg toss and a giant game of Uncle Sam. After lunch, everyone departed to distant cities, from Louisiana to Conneticut, and all were sure that a summer at camp was definitely part of their future.
 
Many thanks to the volunteer staff members who came to oversee al the activiites, lead the songs, set the tables, and encourage one and all to try a summer at Camp Nakanawa, realizing that a single camp season has been for so many the start of a life-time association in a very special community...

 

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