Term 4: July 24th Recap

Our July 24th Recap is here with another inside scoop into CBS life!

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 Friday, 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
• Fresh peaches

We round out the day with dinner!

On Friday, 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: 18

Rough Riders and Silver Spurs: 20

And the Rough Riders and Silver spurs maintain their lead but just barely moving into the 2nd week of Term 4!

Featured Activity Highlight - Arts & Crafts

Arts and Crafts this summer has been focused on creating a curriculum that is adaptable for all ages! For older campers, we’ve been working on mini beaded potted plants and bottle cap pins. With the younger campers, we’ve been making pony bead lizard keychains and tie dye shirts. Additionally, the ceramics and painting classes have been increasingly popular with more kids opting to try out watercolor painting or pinch pot making. We’ve also introduced daily phunanza crafts where kids can get a chance to spend their free hour working on a new project specific to that day. Overall, the crafts shed is busier than ever with campers of all ages, boys and girls alike, all getting a chance to try out a variety of crafty skills!

Evening Program Highlight - Men’s Dinner and Girls’ 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.

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: Hogg! Best Cheer: O’Connor! Best Overall: Porter!

And in true camp fashion, there is also an award for worst chili. This year, Work Crew and Jordan tied for the title! Their prize? Helping clean up the event!