Over this past week I had the most amazing experience of my life! I was able to go volunteer at a summer camp for kids with Muscular Dystrophy. I was lucky enough to get double paired to a camper with my best friend Mileaha. Our campers name was Tyler Williamsen, he is the cutest little boy ever. Before camp started I was pretty scared, but it totally paid off. All the volunteers arrived on Wednesday night where we had some Cafe Rio, some training, and we got to meet the other Volunteers in your group. My group was the best by far, we were in Kung Fu Panda! All of us Kung Fu Pandians met up together in the Gemini ballroom (which was our group room). I could tell that we were all kinda nervous for the day ahead of us. Faster than expected the morning came and we had to sit there and wait till we were walkie talkied in to pick up our camper. After making our amazing name tags and room sign we went to Hollywood Connection!
Tyler loved the racing games!
Eating ice cream with our new found buddies Robby
and his camper Tyler.
The first day was pretty fun but pretty exhausting. We were all ready for bed. The next day we had a little carnival! All Tyler was interested in was his balloon, the lake, food, and going back inside. Here he made his new best friend Mitch. Mitch and Tyler hit it off imediately, they absolutely adored each other and were basically inseperable.
One of the days the Murray Fire Department came, and Tyler absolutely loved it! He was totally transfixed by looking/touching/climbing on the fire trucks. He got a plastic fire fighter hat and he looked adorable in it!
One thing we all loved were the dances! Tyler would ask when we were going to have another one. Well one of the dances we dressed up like our favorite movie/tv show character (since the theme of this years summer camp was Hollywood). Me and Mileaha threw whatever we had together in like the last second before camp. I went as Nacho Libre, Mileaha went as Meg from Hercules, Tyler went as Spongebob, our roommate Laura went as Tinkerbell, and Laura's camper Danny went as some black thing from Lord of the Rings.
Another one of the dances was the red carpet dance. This meant we got all fancied up in dresses and suits. Tyler dreaded this, and kept saying "I don't wanna wear church clothes." It took me, Laura, and Mileaha to hold him down so we could force the hated church clothes upon him. All he wanted was to wear his Spongebob costume. But once we finally got it on, he was a stud!
Another one of the days we went to This is the Place park. We got to ride trains and ponies and try lots of new things. Two of our good friends Mitch and Michael even got an old fashioned shave. We spent all day with Mitch and his camper Travis, and Michael and Brandon and their camper Trent. Trent liked to pick on me and Mileaha, not to mention try to run us over.
Mitch and Tyler :)
Trent :)
Michael :)
In all camp was the best! I made new friends, but most importantly Tyler made new friends! Like..
Maddy :)
and Taylor :)
and Robby :)
and Steven :)
and Laura :)
and Michael :)
and Mitch :)
and Mileaha :)
and Me! :)
I am gonna miss my little buddy so much! But I'll see him again next year!
