School Camping Field Trip ~ Story Time Sunday

Camp MacLean

   One of my many favorite field trips I have been on was when I went to Camp MacLean in seventh grade. It was my outdoor ed field trip for school. 

   We got to the camp after a very long ride and we found out where out cabins were. I was with many familiar people and I was with one of my favorite teachers. I was one of the first in my cabin and of course if you see a bunk bed you usually call dibs on the top bunk. Keep this in mind, this is very important. 

   We explored our cabin for a while and got settled, then we went to the dining hall.  They taught us how their food system was, eating lunch, and learning what activities we would do during this two day field trip. 

   To summarize how their food was during the trip, it was delicious and my table would keep coming up to get more and more. The cooks would get upset because she would see the same person come up and get the food for our table, not letting other tables have a chance to grab seconds, so we eventually switched people and went up for the food ever three minutes. One time they ran out of food because we went up too much.

  Another funny story was we were eating spaghetti and we were starting to cleaning up and I asked to pass the parmesan and the water because I wanted more water in my cup and more parmesan my for noodles. Instead of pouring water into my cup I poured my parmesan in the cup, so I went to get a new cup. As I was getting a new cup, my table decided to clean up and pour their cups of water into the pitcher and without realizing it poured the water in my cup and drank it... I only realized there was something wrong when I found a mushroom in my mouth.

   During this trip we had many fun activities and things to do like fishing where I barely hooked a fish by looking at a bunch of ducks and realizing my line was heavy and playing a huge game of capture the flag with the whole camp, girls vs. boys. The game ended in a tie, but the girls were near a win because of our idea to act like boys and sneak to the other side and of course after all activities, we had a huge fire, sang songs, and had s'mores.

   We eventually went to our cabin and at this point I went up my bunk to find a nest of  GIANT SPIDERS. As a result of freaking out I tried to get down, but I came to a realization that I didn't know how to get down a bunk bed and I fell off, landing on my friend Trisha. That night I ended up sleeping on two chairs with my coincidentally ironic spider blanket. 

   These are a few of my memories at Camp MacLean, but in conclusion, we had fun and somehow at the end my cabin called me Mom with a deceased husband of Roberto ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but I'll save that for next time because this story time is already too long.