On Friday, July 25, we celebrated Christmas in July at Camp Balcones Springs! “Santa” fulfilled cabin wishes for special snacks, delivering requested treats, and cabins enjoyed a family-style meal in a festively-decorated Rio Grande Dining Hall. Other highlights included a live nativity scene at flagpole, Santa visiting activities throughout the day, a snowball fight with shaving cream at the blob dock, cookie decorating, and so much more!
The night ended with a Christmas-themed Mission Impossible – a surprise event at camp that interrupts a scheduled activity with a special game campers play to win a prize and “save” camp from some sort of spy. In fitting with the festivities, this Mission Impossible set the scene with the Grinch capturing Santa, enlisting campers to complete an assortment of tasks to bring him back! Porter won first place, saving Santa in record time!
On Wednesday, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter set up shop in The Meadow as Camp Balcones Springs transformed into Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, and other iconic locations from the popular book and movie series. Campers made wands, casted spells by blowing glitter, tested out potions, were sorted into their houses for dinner, and danced under the stars! Famous book characters like Harry, Ginny, Hagrid, Hedwig the owl, and Professors Trelawney and Umbridge also made appearances. Needless to say, it was a magical evening!