Escape Room Champions; Frontier Night

Tuesday was gray t-shirt day. We spotted Wynne descending the climbing wall in her morning group activity.

In our walk through the woods, we saw Madison's group. She showed us the birdhouse she had made.

It was pretty on the trails in the lower part of the camp by the river.

We saw Caroline and Luke's group walking across the bridge on their way to their next activity.

While the young ones were busy doing their activities, we had an adult laser gun activity running through the forest hunting each other down. Doesn't quite sound like "loving" family togetherness, but some in the group really "loved" the experience.

I liked how the children groups took a break for lunch each day (except one) so we could eat every meal together as families.

After lunch we went to the store and bought an ice cream treat. That was the day we were hunting down tummy trouble drugs. Glen had been miserable all night long and Spencer was stuck in the cabin throwing up that day. 

Fortunately, Spencer didn't mind being in the cabin with an iPad to keep him occupied.

With Sarah feeling better and able to participate in the day's activities, we were happy to have her on the escape room team with me, Dallas and Laurie.

There were two escape rooms (cabins) with two different teams trying to solve the exact same escape.

At first we were going to mix up the four die-hard escape room fanatics with the others of us who were not as intent on solving the escape in the least amount of time ever at Aspen Grove.

Then we decided it would be better for the super serious ones to all be on the same team if they wanted to have a chance at beating the record.

So off went Ben, Rebecca, Haley and Glen to crush the Aspen Grove record. 

Imagine their chagrin as they sheepishly escaped their cabin many minutes AFTER our much more inexperienced group had escaped from our cabin.

Needless to say, neither of our groups beat the Aspen Grove escape room time, but our #1 group definitely had a great time gloating over our triumph in beating the other team.

The Thomas family wallyball players tried their skill against another family. I don't think we had anything to brag about there.

A very popular activity with some of the adults was pen turning. I had never heard of it. First step is to pick out a block of wood and purchase the inside of the pen.

After cutting the wood into the appropriate-sized pieces, you put the wood on a lathe and used different long-handled tools to carve down the wood as the wood is spinning.

Making pottery was another craft offered.

We never missed a meal! I was continuously thankful other people were taking care of all the food for us during that week.

Jonah had drunk so much iced drink that he was freezing and needed grandma snuggles to warm up.

There was a fun evening of activities going on at the big field in celebration of Frontier Night. First stop at the bowery was snow cones.

A train was constantly running a big loop around the field which was so fun for the little children to ride as often as they wanted.

At one point, a robber held up the train and demanded the passengers to put their arms up. Jonah was always obedient!

There were so many fun frontier activities for everyone to do.

This is one of my favorite photos. I just wish Klarissa had been there at that time to be in the adult log photo.

People were getting sore from all the physical activities, but that didn't keep them from participating in evening games before congregating in the cabin for conversation and games.

Each day was fun-filled and fulfilling as we watched the family having such a great time together.