Term 3: July 2nd Recap

Check out our July 2nd Recap for the CBS insider scoop!

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 Thursday, your campers also enjoyed:

• Egg and bacon quiche
• Greek yogurt fruit parfaits
• Sausage links

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:

• Chicken tenders
• French Fries
• Carrots, celery, and ranch

We round out the day with dinner!

On Thursday, our campers had dinner at our Men’s Dinner and Girls’ 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: 14

Rough Riders and Silver Spurs: 10

And the Texas Rangers and Lonestars maintain their four point lead for another day!

Featured Activity Highlight - Eating What We Harvested!

Angelina and Bowie cabin picked warm, ripe cherry tomatoes off the vine, mint, rosemary, zucchini and squash blossoms from our vegetable garden. We then sauteed the tomatoes in garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper, and a bit of rosemary and ALL (even the campers who don’t like tomatoes) ate this on top of crunch sourdough.

Next, squash blossoms were tossed in a lemony egg mixture and then skillet fried. Again, ALL campers tried these!! And liked them.

Campers blended the fresh mint with lemon juice, chopped ginger root and honey and poured over ice before sipping.

Finally, zucchini was sliced into medallions and lightly coated in an egg bath and bread crumbs. These were quickly pan fried in buttery garlic oil and then gobbled up!

The cabins, picked, prepped, cooked, ate, and tidied up happily! Make sure to have them make these dishes for you.

Bon Appetit!

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

Thursday evening at CBS held another set of classic camp traditions. For this special evening program, Girls Camp and Boys Camp split up for two more classic traditions: Men’s Dinner and Girls’ Cookout. Both nights are full of phun, traditions, and make up the CBS camp experience!

Men’s Dinner

Men’s Dinner is a favorite CBS tradition, and a night just for the boys. The evening is split into three parts, with a little something for everyone.

First, all of Boys Camp joins together for an intense camp-wide game of Capture the Flag. This term, the Texas Rangers took home the win!

After the game, campers headed into the Rio for dinner and the famous Men’s Dinner food fight. Each table received a plate full of barbeque and turkey legs, with no utensils and bonus points awarded for the rowdiest cabin to finish their tray.

Then came the main event: the food fight. With the Rio carefully covered in black tarp, a table full of lettuce, bread, and other throwable food was brought out and quickly swiped clean as the fight began.

Afterward, campers headed back to their cabins to shower and change before meeting at the Gridiron for a surprise movie. This term’s movie was The Sandlot!

Girls’ Cookout While the boys enjoyed Men’s Dinner, Girls Camp gathered at the Thicket for Girls’ Cookout, overlooking the lake as the sun set. Our girls swim at both Papa’s Pool and Lake Ted, have classic hotdogs, grilled pita pizzas, crunchy kettle chips, watermelon, and crisp apples. The evening was full of swimming, time with friends, and cookout traditions!

The highlight of Girls’ Cookout is the chili cook-off. Each cabin makes their very own chili, given the same base and 90 seconds to concoct their dish. Ingredients up for grabs this year included a cornucopia of spices, Dr. Pepper, Goldfish, Doritos, M&Ms, Skittles, fresh onions, and cheese. Unique to Girls’ Cookout, each cabin also has a chili cheer performed while their chili is tried by our Leadership and Full-Time staff. Awards are given out for best chili, best cheer, and best overall! Our winners from last night were:

Best Chili: Porter! Best Cheer: Blanton! Best Overall: Ladybird!

And in true camp fashion, there is also an award for worst chili. This year, Johnson took the title, their chili both incredibly spicy and salty! The secret ingredient? Heaping amounts of cumin, red pepper, and cayenne. Their prize? Helping clean up the event!