Our last day at RAC Camp

We met some new friends at RAC Camp.

ThierrySucette and GeneviveDoree gave Zoe and me a horseback riding lesson today!

It was a lot of fun! Here I am riding a nice gentle horse named Shadow.

This is Zoe on a horse named Aura.

Isn't the Island pretty? We just love it here.

Thanks so much, Thierry and Genevive!

Our exciting day at RAC Camp

I couldn't stand my dirty uniform anymore!

I just had to wash it.

I thought our swim suits needed washing too.

After I did all that, I helped Zoe with our Arts & Crafts badge.

Here's a nice picture of our Camp Site.

We've sure had fun here the last 10 days!

Zoe finished her paper hat before I did.
We used copies of La Semaine de Suzette papers.

Zoe ran to Canteen and got us 2 icecream cones.

It was a hot day. We are working on our sea shell badge next.

Admiral Camp Visitor's Day

Sunday, August 29, 2010 was Visiting Day at Camp.

Our new sister, Helena, showed up with a red balloon for us,

and she also brought cookies!

Zoe lost the pretty balloon in the woods when we went for a short hike.

She only had 3 because she had burned the rest.
The cookies were delicious.
We didn't mind that there were so few because we had a yummy lunch at the Mess Hall later.
We took Helena to Sunday School lessons by the river the first thing.
The mosquitoes weren't too bad today.

We showed Helena where we sleep.

We wanted her to try sleeping overnight but she wanted to go home with Maman.

In the afternoon we sailed on Lexie's pretty sail boat.

We sailed with Ada Matilda too! It was lots of fun.

We're going to learn knot tying today. I can hardly wait!

Admiral Camp and Paper Hats

This is our friend, Admiral Claire.

Her Maman, Gael, has organized this Camp for all us Bleuettes.

Maman Gael also made up the pattern for the Camp Uniform.

The first 10 people to sign up got a FREE uniform kit with the green fabric and red rick rack and the scarf fabric too. Our Maman had trouble making the uniforms but we helped her and we just love them!

We're having fun at Admiral Camp.

Today we're going to make Paper Hats in Arts and Crafts.

Maman is going to visit Camp and show us how!

If you would like to learn how to make paper hats and can't join us, here is a link for instructions.

Tante Julie gave us the link. All her girls made paper hats and now we all want one too!

If you click on the first picture at the top of this post, you can use that for your paper hat after you've saved it to your own computer.

Maman used this after making it bigger so it fills nearly half a page.

It should be 5 " by 7" on your page. I'm sure you'll know how to do this!

Have fun! We'll post pictures after we make our own hats.

We love Admiral Camp!

Admiral Camp and picnics

At last, we're on our way! We packed our clothes in the now empty treasure chest, and fastened it to our little row boat along with our flotation device.

Maman gave us 2 sturdy oars.

Here we are, going down the mighty Fraser River. We met a few dolphins along the way.

Aren't they cute?

On Sunday afternoon we stopped in at Madeline's house for a picnic.

We spent the night there too.

Maman forgot to take pictures in the dark.

We are so excited to nearly be at Camp!

Admiral Camp will last for one week!

More treasure!

Today Zoe and I set out on our hike to earn our Hiking Badge.
We weren't sure where to go at first, but then we figured out which way the map was showing us to go. Up!

Zoe found this map underneath the treasure in the chest.

We were in a beautiful fern meadow.
The map directed us up a steep path.
We looked up when we heard someone shouting to us.
There was a girl up at the very top!
She was waving her hands and jumping up and down.
We finally reached her.
She was very excited. She told us she'd slept all night in the Caves.
Maman knew all about it!
She said her name was Helena and she had traveled from Texas to be our new sister!
We couldn't believe it and were so surprised.
She is the new treasure!

We both hugged her and said we'd be happy if she came to live with us and share our adventures.
We headed back on our pirate boats and set up Camp.

I'm holding the firewood while Zoe saws it into smaller pieces.

Helena was so exhausted she fell asleep in the tent.

After we built the campfire, Helena came out in her sleeping bag and joined us for a sing a long. I played the guitar. We sang rousing campfire songs before going to bed.

It sure was a wonderful day!

Yvette Marie signing off and turning in.

Good night!

Our next adventure...a sewing badge!

Zoe doesn't like sewing.

But she wishes to earn her Sewing Badge in Admiral Claire's Camp.

So she is working hard on her neck scarf.

At the other end of the sewing room is me, Yvette Marie.

I use the treadle machine while Zoe uses the portable model.

I love sewing so much. I helped Maman with my rick rack trim and I did the tassel on my hat all by myself!

Here we are in our finished outfits.

Admiral Claire is in the photograph.

We studied her uniform a lot to be sure to get ours right.

Now we have both earned our first badge!