El Tesoro Is In The Books

Abe and his sister went to El Tesoro Camp as kids and had a great time. It might be safe to say that Gaea loved it so much that she has been dreaming of the day that her kids would be old enough to attend. That moment was this summer. 

Solomon and Adam, along with Grace and Roger, made plans for the 2nd week of summer. They invited our kids to attend, too. Daisy and Lijee were still in school, but Zeke was out and we thought it would be a special treat, so we eagerly signed him up!

Somewhere between signing him up in the fall and time for camp in the summer, Zekers decided he did not want to attend. What made matters even worse was that I realized I signed him up for the week before his cousins were attending. {Mom fail} By pure luck someone cancelled at the last minute and we got him in for the right week. 

As you can clearly see from the photo, 

he was excited to be there.

 You couldn't see his face very closely to really capture the essence of his excitement? Here, now you can see the joyful anticipation exuding. 

We all breathed a sigh of relief after passing the lice check. It was a year ago almost to the day that we discovered the pesky little critters having a party in the Daniels' hair. For real, even though we had no reason to believe we had lice, I was scared they were gonna find it. #forevertraumitized

After staring down lice in the eyes and walking away unscathed, Zekers joined his cabin.

 A day or 2 later we were able to view photos from camp. At least he didn't look quite as miserable as he did at drop off.

I was that Mom who didn't read the info closely enough and forgot to send him in a white shirt for group pics.

 {2nd Mom fail}

 Apparently El Tesoro is a lot like Fight Club. Once he got home he never talked about it, but from pictures I can tell you that he swam,

zip lined,

 attended the flag ceremony,

and rock climbed.

He would never admit it, but he smiled at least once while at camp.

 After closing ceremony the cousins stopped at Braum's for ice cream.

I am guessing that this was Zeke's one and only El Tesoro experience. You live and you learn. And you spend a few hundred dollars in the process, but that's neither here nor there. We learned from our experience and that's the main thing, right?