Pine Basin

Ella saved her money for a year and the day finally came that she got to go to Pine Basin with her best friend Kailee Daniel and cousin Sydney.

She was nervousited!  So excited but almost sick with being nervous.  What if Kailee and Syd aren't there she says as we are pulling up.  lol..  I was glad to see she jumped right in when we got there with a giant smile on her face.

When we showed up Thursday night she was so happy to see us!  She showed us the shelter she and Kailee had built up on the hill. 

And her bunk she slept in every night. 

It was fun to see where she had been staying and what she had been doing. 

Syd informed us of a little drama that had taken place every night as Ella cried from being home sick and her friend Kailee puked from too much sugar.  ha ha!!  The joys of being 11 and away from home for a week.

The kids put on a really fun program with skits and songs and an overview of what they did each day.  Normally there are about 60 kids at Pine Basin and this week there were only 30 so it was a lot more personal.  They had about 2 councilors with every 5 kids.

Hello! This is Ella. Mom asked me to write so... HERE I AM! Pine basin was a blast!  My 2 friends came with me. The first day, we left to pine basin. We got to know the councilors and they each memorized all 37 of our names(- 2 they came later in the week) When we got there we started getting our stuff on the tarp.then, We got all our food for the week in the kitchen. When the councilor who was in charge of feeding us saw all the food scattered all over she said "holey crap!" That knight I was a little homesick and was  crying and so,I told a councilor and they made me feel better.

The next morning,I had a few pieces of candy. I had to take my allergy pills while I was there, so I took my pills got my stuff done (by 9:00) and left to breakfast. Then we had 2 classes. We built a fire a fort  and talked about wilderness survival. Then, we went to music and it drizzled on us so we went inside. Later, we went on the nature hike. It rained on us pretty bad and everyone was calling it the "water hike". After that we went to the lodge and played games until the rain stopped. When it  finally stopped we went to the campfire, had smores,and watched skits. Then we went  to the knight hike. We were planning to scare the boys so papa bear made marks on the trees to look like bear territory. then we got to this site and they told us a scary story about Ivan. I'm not gonna tell the whole story though, it is probably too scary to write about. 4 seconds after it was over someone jumped out of the tree with pots and pans. we got really scared.

On the third day, we went to JACKSON HOLE! We had to stick in partners so we weren't walking around by ourselves. My partners were Kailee, Sydney, and Kenzie. we had 1 hr to explore within our group.First, we went to the icecream store. Then,we split up. Syd and kenzie went to starbucks,( me and kailee aren't allowed to have coffee) Me and kailee went to the candy shop instead. They had a whole wall full of  JELLY BEANS!!!!!!!!

The next day i woke up and kailee was on the bottom bunk and had PUKED.:( I was a little nuts. We had pancakes for break fast. then we had the real water hike. We kept thinking kailee got a leach. Then we got our beds fixed and ready to show our parents. From 6-9 our parents came. Then we had the gitchie ceremony Then we had a PARTAY! TILL 1.

 The next morning I woke up and kailee had puked again. we had my favorite breakfast;  biscuits and gravy, YUM! After that we loaded up our stuff and left HOME!!!!!