Fun and Games at Camp

The kiddos are loving their first week of camp:  wacky dress-up, hiking, tie-dye, fishing, row-boating, rock painting, swimming, campfire cooking, and playing games.  They spent last night telling us all about the various yard games they were playing, many of them unfamiliar to me:

• 1 to 20--There's singing "one and twenty, two and twenty, three and twenty, four five six and twenty, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty . . . " and some kind of movement (some of these games don't have clear rules or goals!)
• What Time is it, Mr. Fox?-- Kids line up opposite Mr. Fox.  He calls out times.  If it's 1 o'clock, take one step, 2 o'clock, two steps. When he calls "midnight" or "dinner time"--run to the opposite side without being tagged.
• Avalanche and Tsunami--You have five seconds to find a place when "it" calls avalanche or tsunami.  For avalanche, hide behind an object; for tsunami, get as high up as you can.  They weren't clear on the goal of the game.

Bud's camp is only a week and he's already sorry to go, asking if he can stay all summer.  Sis will feel the same way about her camp next week, for sure.  But then they'll have each other, after three full weeks of being separated, a very first for them.  It'll be interesting to see how it all goes.