Day 8: June 15th, 2024

 

Day 8: June 15th, 2024

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Day 8 Highlights Notes: Last day of camp at Aspen Camp, Community Farm, Camp Olympics, and final night festivities

Note: the pictures are put in random order, and some may not have captions.

We would like to say thank you to Corina Person and The Farm Collaborative for hosting the campers and staff. Check out their website: https://www.thefarmcollaborative.org/, thank you! 

Paul petting an alpaca



Art activities- dyeing, loom, and wool needling

Friendly sheep who loves being around humans

Meet Pepper the two weeks old baby goat!

Everybody wanted to hold Pepper

One of camp olympics activities


Everybody wanted to float to other end of pond and back for fun

Eliana




We always take precautions with campers' hearing aids during water-related activities :-) 



Liam snuck in a quick kiss on the goat while Demi poses





Hillary and Sabrina racing each other

The campers picked Jesse as one of staff to throw the water ballons at

Pepper being bottle-fed as he was a runt and adopted by the Farm Collaborative Director of Education, Corina Person.

Liam really loved holding Pepper

Jovi and Pepper

Pepper fell asleep on Ezrah

Nicole and Pepper

Scott and Pepper

Eliana and Pepper 

Angel and Pepper

Lacey and Pepper

Cookie-Loving Orange Foxes giving a skit about cookies

A skit by the Flying Purple Pigs Staff team 

Two final group pictures!

It is not a good-bye but until we come again!




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