Camp Hero: Day 5

Today was the last day of Camp Hero. Even though we're sad, we are so glad to have made so many awesome new friends!

We started off the day by challenging ourselves to some relays, and then seeing if we could beat our stats from Monday. Everyone was able to do the same or better at the 40 yard dash, the shuttle run, and the vertical jump tester.

Monday's Circle-Up

Then, everybody worked together to put together 50 Taking Care of You! Support for Kids of Injured Heroes Kits for military kids who have had a parent return from deployment with a visible or invisible injury. Kids also had the opportunity to talk about what they enjoyed most at Camp Hero, and to play everybody's favorite game of circle catch with the medicine ball.

We had a great lunch of pizza, followed by Trevor Romain talking about things you can do to help others, as well as help yourself. We also learned a little about his own deployment experiences.

Then after some free journaling, everybody got the chance to write nice messages around their friends' pictures, write a note of thanks to a service member, and participate in one last thank you circle.

Because we had a special guest come out to take pictures today, we don't have those for you yet, but we'll get them up on the Picasa site as soon as we can! In the meantime, enjoy these pictures from the rest of the week.

We can't wait for next year's Camp Hero!

- CCMK