SWO Day 1

We made it!!! We left Monday morning a little before 9am and traveled all the way to Asheville before stopping?! We couldn't believe we made it 3 ½ hours with 27 people in 2-15 passenger vans and a weeks worth of stuff! We arrived at Snowbird just before 3pm, perfect time since check-in is from 3-5pm! After the vans were bombarded with Snowbird staff, they staff a 1 to 4 ratio so there are a lot of staff for the 400 students that are here this week, we headed to The Coop (pictured below) for orientation.

We unloaded our vans into 2 cabins, the girls cabin “Atlanta” and the guys cabin “Wakefield”.

Then rec sign up at 5:15pm. Rather than signing up before you get to camp, they hold a mass rec sign up for the week once all the groups arrive. Our group is going White Water Rafting Thursday, one day for the ropes course (zip line, climbing tower, 3-man swing)

and that left 2 other rec choices. Dinner was at 6:15pm in the Big Green Metal Building, then a worship service at 7:15 in The Coop. Worship time is awesome! They started with a skit, the praise band leads us in a couple of songs then Brody (Camp Director) spoke and challenged the students.

The Snack Shack (where you can buy t-shirts, hats, snacks, etc.) opened after worship until share groups at 10:00pm, this was a great time for the kids as well as our leaders to share what God is teaching and showing us at camp! Snowbird is very strict on these next two rules, student must be in their cabins, or fear the SWOMP, then lights out at 11:30pm (really)!

We have already had a blast at camp and only been here a few hours! I'll update the site every day so you can see what's going on with SHY (Stony Hill Youth). We are trying to get pictures of every student every day!!! Leave us your comments, we'd love to hear them!!!

Here are some random pictures of day 1...I'm trying to get pictures from everyone who has a camera...there are much more from Day 2!!!