Senior High Camp

This video was taken in Norris, IL at the Herman Lake before AC Senior High Girls Camp started.
Yesterday was exhausting. We found out that the girls were going to be at Norris at noon instead of 1:30pm so we left from here around 9:30am, drove to the farm, then to Ruth's to pick up her 2 horses then headed for Norris. But... we almost got to the first stop sign when Ruth remembered she forgot their bridles so we did a quick turn around, got the bridles and still beat Karin and Mike with their 5 horses. Karin called when we were almost to Norris to ask if we remembered the bridles, I said "of course we did." I didn't tell her we really had forgotten them and gone back. We needed to try the trail first so Karin, Mike, Nate Herman, Amy Beth and Jarad Plattner all jumped on bareback. The horses did not want to go into the lake and it took Karin getting off her horse and leading them through but after the first time the second was easier and by the third Karin felt pretty confident they would work. Just about that time the first bus pulled up and we had our first group of riders. All went well until they rode through the water. One of the girls hit a thorn bush and got all scratched and bleeding from her leg. Karin took the tree clippers with her on the next trip but still came back with one girl bleeding. By the third trip with another bleeding camper, Karin got smart and picked another path. This one was better except there was a huge hole and Larry fell into it which caused Cindy to bolt and her rider fell off and knocked the wind right out of her. The third path Karin picked was a winner, from that point on we had no injuries. Mike needed to haul to Middle Grove so he took the big trailer and we used my trailer as a base. One of the girls came over, saw my 2 horse trailer with 7 horses tied to it and asked "just how many horses does that trailer hold?"
The buses were suppose to pull out at 4:00pm so we started packing up at that time. Mike didn't have the big trailer back yet so I just loaded up Ruth's 2 and left the others with Karin. I needed to get back to charge my video camera for the SNL part of camp that was to start at 7:30pm. I got to the Old School Center about 7:20pm as a huge storm was starting to build. They actually didn't start the skits until 8:30 so I had an hour to waste. Then the skits went on until after 11:00pm. I didn't get home until midnight, had to get up early to drive to the farm to take care of Lily and get back in time to drive to Morton, IL to pick up my sister Nancy. I made it!