Picked Jazzy up from Arts and Crafts Camp today. Here are some of the items she made: minion finger puppets, a partially made basket, a landscape, three bookmarks, many lanyards, a sand candle, a necklace made from peices of a magazine, and a partially made straw doll. She made more items in this camp than ever before. The sand candle is kind of interesting. They dig a little hole in the sand, pour in hot wax, set the wick, wait for it to harden, then dig out the candle.
Jasmine would have had another patch called a "Polar Bear" patch, but she wouldn't complete the requirement for the badge- which was to jump in the lake at 7am:( She had a "swimming test" where she had to jump into shoulder deep water and swim about two strokes, so I don't see what the big deal was. She is going back to a "Cooking Camp" in a couple of days. I told her that if she did the Polar Plunge and got the badge, I would have a surprise for her when she got home. I'm not sure what I'm going to do if she doesn't do "the plunge" because I already bought her a little pink desk and chair. She has no place to do homework right now- since we don't even have a kitchen table yet. I just have to put the stupid thing together before she gets home. I'm not sure what I'll do if she doesn't do the plunge- maybe make something up:) After I picked Jazzy up from camp, we drove the 12 minute drive to Hackensack (population 313) where the Owl's Nest Hotel is located. It's right on Birch Lake- which we've already explored, played on the playground, checked out the fishing docks, did all of her laundry, ate at one of the restaurants, and went into a couple of the shops. Tomorrow we will go to Leech Lake- which is fairly close since we've already done everything we can do here on our 1 1/2 day summer vacation:))
Jasmine would have had another patch called a "Polar Bear" patch, but she wouldn't complete the requirement for the badge- which was to jump in the lake at 7am:( She had a "swimming test" where she had to jump into shoulder deep water and swim about two strokes, so I don't see what the big deal was. She is going back to a "Cooking Camp" in a couple of days. I told her that if she did the Polar Plunge and got the badge, I would have a surprise for her when she got home. I'm not sure what I'm going to do if she doesn't do "the plunge" because I already bought her a little pink desk and chair. She has no place to do homework right now- since we don't even have a kitchen table yet. I just have to put the stupid thing together before she gets home. I'm not sure what I'll do if she doesn't do the plunge- maybe make something up:) After I picked Jazzy up from camp, we drove the 12 minute drive to Hackensack (population 313) where the Owl's Nest Hotel is located. It's right on Birch Lake- which we've already explored, played on the playground, checked out the fishing docks, did all of her laundry, ate at one of the restaurants, and went into a couple of the shops. Tomorrow we will go to Leech Lake- which is fairly close since we've already done everything we can do here on our 1 1/2 day summer vacation:)) 
