Fernwood Cove – 7/29Posted by Beigette Gill on July 30, 2016

Friday’s Blog was written by 6th Grade Bunk Mom and Arts Counselor, Leigh.

As the clocks struck 7:15 this morning, campers snuggled under their blankets ceased to be stirred by the familiar notes of reveille drifting in through their windows and instead slept blissfully on. Fernwood Cove relished in its first “Lazy Friday,” where the usual 7:50 morning flag raising routine is replaced by an extra hour of sleep, a buffet breakfast served between 8:30 and 9:30 in the Feeder (where donuts and cinnamon rolls and scrambled eggs abound), and plenty of meandering risers lining up to eat in their onesies eating at the patios.

For the morning’s events, the seventh grade hosted our first service of the session on the topic of Personal Growth. The camp, dressed in white, enjoyed singing along to Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten” and listening to personal testimonies from our seventh grade girls on how camp has challenged them to be the best versions of themselves.

Following a Thanksgiving lunch and extended rest hour, the camp transformed into a tropical oasis for “Senior Surprise,” an afternoon of games, cake-decorating and dancing planned by our Flamingos. Donning lays and Hawaiin shirts to fit the “Tropical Cove” theme, campers moved between 6-stations—yoga in the dance studio, dancing to ukulele tunes under the tree, and beach volleyball among them—as the afternoon drifted by.

We all enjoyed a cheeseburger in paradise for dinner out on the lawn. With the sun beginning to set on our beach at Island Pond, green and white duked it out on the tennis courts in the annual green and white dance-off. Though each side brought spirit—and a parade of outrageous apparel—to the floor, green emerged victorious. But at Fernwood Cove, where days like this are the norm, everyone is a winner.