Camp Bluebird, April 29, 2019

Through My Lens, All Seasons, and Our World Tuesday

Tishomingo County, Mississippi, USA, April 26, 2019

I spent the weekend at Camp Bluebird for Cancer Survivors at the Fellowship Christian Retreat at Crow's Neck on Bay Springs Lake.

The theme for this year's camp was the Olympic Games. We played our own version of the Olympics using paper plates for the Discus Throw, and foam 'pool noodles' for the Javelin Toss. But the most fun was the Ring Toss - throwing a foam-rubber ring over your partner's head and shoulders while they stood still with their hands at their sides. If your ring went astray and landed on someone else, it was a point against you!

We stayed in cabins at the north end of Bay Springs Lake. The lake is part of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway - the main body of the lake is much wider than this.

Just one of the many activities of the fun-filled weekend was building Bluebird houses. Each camper made one to carry home with them.

For our craft session, we made recipe card holders. There was a wide range of paper designs to choose from. We glued them to ceramic tiles and sealed them with the kind of sealer used for jig-saw puzzles when you want to frame them. I got this recipe from Taste of Home magazine.

A clothes pin glued on the back gives it legs to stand upright, and a smaller clothes pin at the top holds the recipe card.

There was a raffle to help raise money for next year's camp. I considered the $15 I spent on raffle tickets to be a donation, but I won these pretty boxes!

We were served Friday night supper, three meals on Saturday, and Sunday morning breakfast, and between meals there were plenty of snacks available.

We started our days with a nature walk and ended with a campfire. It was a wonderful time for cancer survivors to relax, have fun, and celebrate life!

Have a great week!

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