Term 3: July 1st Recap

Check out what your campers were up to on Wednesday, July 1st!

CBS Eats

At camp, we are proud of our nutritious and diverse meals that fuel your campers! Take a look at our menus of the day!

We start our day strong with breakfast!

In addition to our daily selections of creamy oatmeal and toppings, fresh fruit medley, a toast bar, and scrambled eggs with salsa and cheddar, every morning at breakfast we serve featured breakfast menu items! On Wednesday, your campers also enjoyed:

• Chocolate chip pancakes with syrup and butter
• Sausage patties
• Fresh strawberries

We refuel midday with lunch!

For lunch, we always have a salad bar, sandwich station, and buttered noodles open to our campers! Additionally, they enjoyed:

• Burger sliders with cheese
• Steamed broccoli
• Tator tots
• Gala apples

We round out the day with dinner!

On Wednesday, our campers had dinner at our Women’s Dinner and Boys’ Cookout! Take a look at our evening program highlight below for more phun info.

Friendly Competition

Every morning after breakfast, our campers start their day off with Team Competition, AKA “Team Comp”. This friendly competition includes games like kickball, mini soccer, O-Ball, Nuke Em, and Steal the Bacon. The winners of each game earn their respective teams (Rough Riders and Silver Spurs vs. Texas Rangers and Lone Stars) points toward a head start for our highly anticipated Amazing Race at the end of the term.

Our current team competition score is:

Texas Rangers and Lonestars: 11

Rough Riders and Silver Spurs: 7

After our third day of team competition, the Texas Rangers and Lonestars have pulled ahead! Will they be able to maintain this lead?

Featured Activity Highlight - Horseback

Funny things campers say… Recently at the barn, campers were playing a game of horse trivia to learn fun facts about horses. One of the questions was “What does a red ribbon in a horse’s tail mean?” They were unsure so I gave them a hint. I said “It is something dangerous.” One of the girls raised her hand and said “Is it boys?” We got a good chuckle out of that one. The correct answer is: the horse kicks.

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April Baxter, Horseback Director

Evening Program Highlight - Women’s Dinner and Boys’ Cookout

Here at CBS, the first week of every term holds one of the most anticipated nights of camp. For this special evening program on Wednesday, Girls Camp and Boys Camp split up for two beloved traditions: Women’s Dinner and Boys’ Cookout. Both nights are full of phun, traditions, and serve as comforting cornerstones of our campers’ experience year after year!

Women’s Dinner

For Women’s Dinner, Girls Camp arrives freshly showered and in pajamas, ready for a night of luxury, sisterhood, dancing, and a movie.

Campers are welcomed by our Leadership Team, who cheer them on as they walk through the doors, get their pictures taken, and find their seats under a Rio lit by twinkle lights. Each table is set with linens, tiara, and our finest cutlery.

Each cabin gets called up to our buffet, overflowing with colorful platters of bruschetta, flatbreads, shrimp cocktail, mozzarella sticks, strawberry watermelon and mint salad, charcuterie skewers, and pizza pockets. Each table is also brought caesar salad and two custom pizzas of their choosing. And of course, no Women’s Dinner is complete without Christine’s Famous Drink, a camp-favorite punch made with cranberry juice, apple juice, orange juice, ginger ale, and pineapple juice.

Throughout the night, our Leadership and Full-Time teams serve the girls, making sure they feel celebrated from start to finish. To end the meal, each table receives its own “dirt” dessert, a flower pot full of chocolate ice cream, Oreo crumbles, gummy worms, and a flower, delivered by Leadership and Full-Time while performing a kickline to “Be Our Guest”

After dinner, the girls danced to favorites including “Love Story” and “Dancing Queen” before hearing from our Girls Camp Director, Abbie Duffy, who spoke about the unique strengths, gifts, and confidence each of our girls carries with them. They ended the night with a surprise movie, Nancy Drew, before heading back to their cabins.

Boys’ Cookout

While our girls enjoyed Women’s Dinner, our boys headed down to the beach for Boys’ Cookout! The evening was full of swimming, time with friends, and classic cookout food including hot dogs, pita pizzas, s’mores, and most importantly, chili.

The highlight of Boys’ Cookout is always the chili cook-off. Campers split into 5 groups, each tasked with crafting the best chili by adding a cornucopia of spices and ingredients to the same chili base. Popular chili additions include Goldfish, Dr. Pepper, and m&ms. At the end of the night, our male Leadership and Full-Time staff taste each chili and choose a winner!

From tiaras and dancing to campfires and chili, Women’s Dinner and Boys’ Cookout were once again a favorite night of the term for campers, and a reminder of the traditions that make CBS feel like home.