Christmas at Lurecrest...

Merry Christmas from all of us here at Camp Lurecrest.

We hope you are all remembering the glory of Christ's coming while with your family. You are our family too, all bought by the same blood which He came to pour out that we might be freed from the law of sin and death. He came to die on our behalf, that we might be transposed into His kingdom and called His sons and given His righteousness. Hallelujah indeed. We have a tree this year... to all of our brothers and sisters in Christ, Merry Christmas.

The Death of the Gauntlet...

DUHN!!! DUHN!!!!! DUHHHN!!!!!!!!!!

Our ESBS teach Tom Phillips who is also one of our Outdoor Adventure Program's directors has been beggin us to dismantle the Gaunlet for some time now. We figured you would enjoy seeing some of the carnage that took place. Fortunately you are being spared from the odor and filth of a 6 month old mudpit.


What the Gauntlet was... the ultimate medieval test of a cabin's courage;

1st Challenge - Scale the Net of Cargo and Retrieve the Chalice of Antidote

2nd Challenge - Answer Rublub's Riddle

3rd Challenge - Traverse Narrow Bridge of Clobberness

4th Challenge - Swim through the Muddy Moat

5th Challenge - Conquer the Spool of Doom

6th Challenge - Fly the Gliding Galileo

7th Challenge - Storm the Castle Wall

8th Challenge - Solve the Puzzling Puzzle

9th Challenge - Climb Sir Jacobias' Ladder

10th Challenge - Rescue your Noble from Lure Lagoon

11th Challenge - Dodge the Bombardment of the Minion on your return

As you can tell, Big Nate didn't waste any time tearing this thing down. We took the "Backy" to it and 'no mas' Gauntlet. We here at Lurecrest have been so encouraged to see the success of the Gauntlet though and plan on making new program driven/theme oriented activities every year from now on. So we'll all have to see what we come up with this next year.

And oh yes, we kept the Spool of Doom, we will put it somewhere as a relic of the Gauntlet so that it's memory may be preserved.

Drew's Poopy Pipe

Sometimes here at Camp Lurecrest accidents happen which lead us to fix things that weren't inherently broken until we tried to fix something else. Today was one of those days for us, as Drew hit a small sewage line from the Barn while he was clearing some trenches so that we could patch some of the roads with asphalt. Whenever you see a piece of pipe with a hole in it, you know something bad has happened.

The good news is that now Drew Jones knows how to repair a sewer line, because Jeremy and Nate guided him through it so that they didn't have to get in the poopy hole. Yeah, bailing out sewage is a little gross, so hopefully this won't happen again. After Drew had bailed all the nastiness out someone unfortunately flushed a toilet and sent us a bunch of fresh poopy which Drew had to then remove again. Fun day huh?