Princesses Tracking

Last week was an interesting week because one of the three camps that was at Far Horizons was a Pampered Princess camp. I didn't get it at all. These girls were there to be pampered (spa treatments, manicures, pedicures, facials etc..) all that feminine crap. Why did they sign up for a camp that was out in the middle of the woods? Some were complaining because they thought that they were going to be staying in a motel not in cabins with but, spiders and bats! This was the group that had lots of issues (homesick, ecophobia etc..). I found myself not even paying much attention to that group.

Until...

I had the luxury of being one of the few staff old enough to drive the vans so I was stuck with taking these pampered princesses to Galena for an off camp activity. They went to a bath and body kind of place for more manicures, massages, fingernail painting and coloring a rubber duck. I, on the other hand, sat in a chair in the corner plotting my revenge since they had me for a nature session later on that afternoon!

I wondered if these girls would even give a rip about the nature stuff at all? So when the time came for me to teach them about tracking, fox walking and other wilderness skills, I was shocked at exactly how interested they were! They really got into the tracking and wasn't even afraid to get a little dirty. So it ended up being a good experience for them and I'm glad I didn't just pass on that particular camp otherwise they and I would have missed out on a great learning experience.

At the campfire that night, all three camps were interested in how I got the fire going as well as asking more questions about fox walking or tracks that they had seen around camp.

Just goes to show that you can't judge a book by its cover or a girl by how "pampered" she is.