Pine Cove Day 2: Monday

Monday was our first full day and it was fantastic.

Here’s a little sample of our schedule.  I snapped a picture of the schedule each day so that I didn’t actually have to carry around the piece of paper.

Lincoln was not interested in the sippy cup that one of the counselors brought him.  Then the counselor offered to hold him for the meal.  That’s right, every meal for the entire week one of the counselors came and held and played with Lincoln.  Never once did I hold him while trying to eat. . .friends, THIS.IS.HUGE! 

Sweet cousins eating breakfast.  They were wearing their swimsuits because right after family devotions (which was right after breakfast) they were going swimming.

Later that afternoon we all went down to the dock to ride the water rockets.  Mia’s class was doing archery at the same time so she skipped the rockets since her class would be doing them later in the week anyway.

Lennon preferred wearing his helmet backwards.  Luckily he happily allowed me to fix it before we got on the rocket.

For the first ride everyone other than Gaga (and the counselor driving the boat) was on the rocket.

After we crashed Bear and Lennon were a little shaken up.  Luckily I grabbed Lennon and Jay grabbed Bear and everyone was fine.

Jack was in heaven.

For ride two Bear decided to stay in the boat.

After we flew off the second time only Jack stayed on.  Here he is quite happy with his victory.

Lennon decided that flying off of the rocket was not as fun as it sounded and kept Gaga and Bear company on the boat.  But he still cheered for us!

When just Jay, Jack and myself were on the rocket we asked the boat driver to give us, in the words of Jackson, “the craziest drive possible.”  As you can see from the awesome action shot (thanks to Gaga for taking all of the pictures while I was in the water), we got it.

Jay and I collided in a way that left me unable to hear out of my right ear for the rest of the day.  Super fun though. . .and I see the merit of the helmets!

For the last ride Gaga was with Lennon and Jack and they asked for a slow and gentle ride.  Lennon and Gaga were thrilled that nobody flew off during this ride.

Later that night was “Clue Done It?” theme night so we all dressed up.

Not a shock to see Jack’s feet at the top of the tree.

Lincoln with his finger mustache.

Luckily the mystery of the missing moose was solved!

And here are the pictures that we got off of the Pine Cove DVD.  I love being able to see what the kids were doing when we weren’t with them. 
You can see Mia in the Dallas Cowboys jersey.  She is much like her Aunt Hillary in that she always has a camera in her hands.

Playing dodge ball.

And some shots of Jackson and Lennon having a blast in the pool.  They are right next to each other in most of the pictures.  Their counselor said that they got along perfectly and were best buddies about 95% of the time and fought like brothers the other 5%.  Sounds pretty good to me!

Pretty cool nature shot.  The camp grounds were just beautiful.

More of Mia’s group having fun.

All dressed up for Clue mystery night.

And last but certainly not least, the camp photographer got some great pictures of Jay pushing Bear on the “T Swing.”  All of the boys loved this swing and spent lots of time swinging.

First full day and we totally understood why so many families there had been coming for so many years!