Footage from the Party

Sorry that this took so long. I will blog one more time tonight so stay tuned....
Today was a normal day. It rained a little this morning so we had rainy day activities. This afternoon the sun came out and we had a lot of fun!

Amplified Theme

So last night was the party and I had a computer malfunction trying to upload the footage I got from the party. No fear...it is really fun and I want you to see it! Please forgive me for not getting it on there but by tonight or tomorrow morning it will be on here. Today is Sunday. On Sundays we get to sleep in and the first campers to flag pole get a piece of coffee cake. Some of you have experienced Kanakuk before so you understand what I am about to talk about. You wake up to the smell of cinnamon traveling through camp. Most kids are up, fully dressed and ready to go because they know the tradition....if your there early you will get a piece of what you have been smelling. The rule is that you have to stay on the porch until you hear the voice in the sky (aka the intercom system). When Diane Cooper and I round the corner and the morning wake up song turns on....you would think we were big celebrities they way those kids run towards you. Except they don't want an autograph...they want a piece of coffee cake fresh off the pan. I probably need to video what that moment is like. Lesson learned moms, when you want to get your kiddo out of bed... make camp coffee cake!

Today is also I'm Third Sunday and Joe White comes over to K-1 to give his I'm Third talk to the kids. The older 25 dayers are heading to K-2 to see what it is like. They will get to do part of the tree tops and play on the dock. Everyone else is going to do Sunday Funday! Also, tonight is the big Kanakuk Talent Show and some of your kids are performing. I will have footage of that as well. Stay tuned, I have alot to show you. Until then, I have put the new Kanakuk Theme Song on for you. We have not even revealed it to the kids!!! Its done by Toby Mac, Lecrea, and Tedashi...all three very popular hip hop christian artists. If youou want your kids to listen to clean music that they will like and think is cool....these three are great picks!

Click Here to hear it

Be Amplified

Honor Cabin

Most Days at Kanakuk Kamps we do Super Duper Honor Cabin. In the morning the kids wake up and go to flag. They then go to the All Kamp Devo and right before breakfast they do honor cabin. It gets graded every day and if their cabin has the most points at the end of the term then they get to go on a fun trip that will include pizza, coke and candy! (Those are valued items here on Kanakomo Hill!)
I wanted you to see what the before and after shots look like. This is Cabin 5 and Cabin 7. Cabin 5 even won that day!!!




Today is also the World Fair Party. I will have pics and videos tonight! Here is your kiddos schedule:

This Morning they are vacationing in the Gulf of Mexico where they can do the following activities:
Cliff Jumping in Baja
Lay out on the beach
Play at the Resort in Cancun (Janeland...where the blob is)
The Mississippi River (waterslides)
Zipping across the Panama Canal (zipline)

They will also vacation in the Mediterranean
Barn swinging in Monaco
Slip and Slide down the Tiber
relaxing on the greek coast line (the pool :)
Playing Soccer in Spain
Playing Wiffle Ball in Tanzania

We will have a world cultural lunch and then FOB. (Hopefully you will get a postcard from all their world travels today)

This Afternoon They will embark on the Amazing Race
Their teams will take their passports doing challenges all over the world.

Tonight we will eat more foods from around the world (they get to try a ton) and then we will be having a World's Fair full of dancing and HUGE inflatable games (like you would get to do at a carnival) It should be a fun night. I will have pictures and videos for you soon.

A fun Day at Kamp

I hope that you are having a great Friday! I had to be reminded that it was Friday. At kamp it is easy to forget what day of the week that it is. We had a fun day at Kanakuk! It was tournament day. The kids are getting ready for the talent show. Right now they are in K-Life. As I am blogging I hear the girls screaming. They must have won the competition. Here is a talk that the kids heard this morning on how God Sees Us. It is by Debbie Burk one of our Leadership Staff.

Until tomorrow......

Klinics

Here are the girls doing klinics yesterday. Today we are doing tournaments. We have a huge bracket of tons of different tournaments that kids play in. They have a jumprope tournament, checkers, hopscotch, ping pong, tetherball, putt putt and washers. Stay tuned for more footage!

Ziplines and Tribals

This was actually yesterday but I wanted you to see what kiddos did on the first full day of kamp. Please forgive my beginner video skills. I wish I had more time to edit but in hopes to get it up for you I do it pretty quickly.

Tonight we did a Mystery Crime Night. The girls had to go around with their investigative journals asking the different characters their alibi and who they think did the crime. I tell you what....we have some future crime investigators...their interigations were pretty thorough! Today we had Klinic Day. The girls got to pick the Klinic of their choice and were there at a mini sport camp all afternoon. It was really fun. I will show that footage tommorow.

Eating Donuts with Kids

Today Diane Cooper and I ate donuts with the kids who had been to Kanakuk more that four years. We ate donuts and found out what their favorite thing about Kanakuk is! The girls got to hang out with our favorite Kanakomo Gal...Kay Holiday. Stay tuned...I have footage from last night when we put kids in tribes. Today we are doing Klinics (the sport that the kids get to pick on their own) Tonight we are having a Mystery Night!