My first Camp Longhorn adventure started today!

To attend to Camp Longhorn, you must have completed second grade.  That's me!  I start third grade in a couple of weeks.
 
I was up early and dressed for my bus ride to Camp Longhorn by 7:50am.  I ate a koloche, then Mimz, Daddy, and I were ready to leave Mimz' home at 8:15.  I was so very excited.  So were all of my adults!

Mommy drove to the bus pickup location and she was waiting for us to arrive.  There were nine buses.  Five of them were going to Camp Longhorn Inks.  The other four were going to Camp Longhorn Indian Springs, which is where I was going.    I was nervous since this will be my first time to be away from my family...and I'll be gone for TWO weeks.

When it was time for me to say goodbye, I cried a little.  Mommy cried...

 and my dad might have had wet eyes...

...and Mimz did too!  You would think I had never been away from them before..... Oh, that's right... this is the first time I have been away from my family.  I've had sleep-overs but my family was just down the street not three hours away and I've been camping with Cub Scouts but Mommy was with me.

Daddy took me to the door of the bus and I was tentative about getting on, but I went to sit with some other boys  (all the boys on the bus were my age).   By the time the bus was ready to pull away I was up moving around and meeting other boys.  I keep hearing that I will have a BLAST so that is my plan!

All the families waved as the bus pulled away for our four hour drive.  I heard we will stop for lunch, maybe at a fried chicken place.

Camp Longhorn Indian Springs address.

I can't have visitors or phone calls.  We will have a quiet time every afternoon and I can write on postcards to send them home telling about my activities at camp.

This is how trunks are delivered to each cabin.  These colorful trunks belong to the girls.   I'm in cabin RS Down (Rattlesnake Down).

One of my councilors helped me carry my trunk to the cabin.
I took a trunk and carried a laundry bag.  In the laundry bag were a pillow, sheets, blanket, and a towel and swim trunks.  That is what we will need before our trunks are delivered.  

My family can email me after 4pm today.  It's not using regular email.  It is over the camp's closed website.  The Camp Longhorn office will print off the letters and deliver them, sort of like the postman does at home.   (Barbara sent me an email at 4:01pm.)

 There are eleven boys in my cabin and four councilors.

We started having fun right away.

 This is our open air cabin (no air conditioning, of course).  We are ready to go swimming.