Hannah had a great time at Tourette Syndrome camp last weekend. We drove to Burton, Texas last Friday for her very first sleep away camp. She was so excited she couldn't stand it! After we got her checked in, we walked around the campground and checked everything out. It is so beautiful there and she was running everwhere because she wanted to see it all. We met a girl that was assigned to the same cabin and they worked on a craft together. I took a picture (ok, more like 4 or 5) of them and Hannah looked at Rachael and said out of the corner of her mouth, "My mom's taking pictures of us." Ky asked her if she was ready for us to leave and quit embarassing her to which we got a swift reply of "Yes!"
We came back to camp Sunday morning and went to the closing ceremony. The kids talked about their camp wish and their wishes were tied to balloons that were released at the close of the ceremony. Hannah wished that she could be at camp everyday. On our way home she told us that in just 12 years she could be a counselor there, because you have to be 18. While she was there she went fishing, did archery, visited the animals including donkeys, a ferrett, rats (which she loved), rode horses, played in a tree house, played kickball, went canoeing on the lake, did the zip line on the ropes course twice, sang and "played" the guitar, (Miss Rachael taught her "Sweet Home, Alabama" so she sang it most of the way home) and all sorts of fun stuff. She said her counselors did their best to tire her out but it didn't work. Saturday night they had a dance. She said it was all fast music and one of the boys asked her to dance (third from the right in the picture of the boys cabin. He went by Bob but that wasn't his real name. Must have an alter ego). Her counselor told me that Hannah pulled her aside and said that she didn't want to dance with him because she didn't want to go falling in love and have to go home the next day. Then, all the other boys in his cabin came over and asked her if she would dance with their friend. She still didn't. No smelly boy's gonna break her heart yet.
Speaking of smelly, she forgot to change clothes at camp. She did put on clean clothes Saturday but slept in them that night and wore then Sunday too because she already had them on, so why change? So glad I took the time to label and pack all that stuff. She couldn't remember if she took a shower that night or not but she claims that she did brush her teeth 4 or 5 times a day. Must have been some good brushing because Sunday at breakfast she lost a tooth! The camp nurse told her the tooth fairy had come and brought her $5! The tooth fairy is quick and very generous at camp! We're all looking forward to next year!
