After a fun day in Yosemite, we were all ready to go get our Girl! We needed to be at Skylake Camp at 10am. We followed the directions to the camp site. We were greeted by many counselors directing us to the parking lot. We were greeted WITH a huge hug from our Girl!

Emersyn gave us the tour of Camp. Emmy was in the Manzanita Cabin.

This is no princess camp. The sleeping cabins are small and simply. The bathrooms are located in another building. They are simply, but clean.

Everyone had their gear packed and ready. Even the counselors were required to pack their gear to clean before the next session arrived. Emmy slept on this top bunk which she enjoyed. She said she was generally the first one up each morning. She would lie in bed watching nature and the morning sunrise.

Emmy’s counselor, Emily, was from San Jose. She is a student at San Jose State University.

We went to the Skylake stage for awards and good-bye ceremony to the campers. All the counselors were introduced as the counselors have activity duties along with Cabin duties. It was interesting that 98% of the boy counselors were from abroad – England and Australia being the most popular. Not one of the boy’s counselors came from the Bay Area. For the girl counselors, about 98% were from California.

After the presentation, we went to the cafeteria for a bbq meal of hamburgers and hotdogs. It wasn’t bad considering how many people were being feed this afternoon.