Just as we didn't think it could get any better, today
we roasted marshmallows on our fire on Mt St John today.
Thanks Imogene for this idea.
The girls walked up the hill and they were a bit worried that their fire wouldn't be there.
Thank goodness it was just as it had been when they left last week.
We sat down around the fire and the constant question was
"When can we have the marshmallows?".
I explained to them that when you have a campfire you have to sing
camp songs and tell made up stories first.
We sang all our songs from our songbook that they girls are making.
Then we began a story with the words...
"Once upon a time on Mt St John, there was a huge and ferocious
Dinosaur that lived in the crater"
They girls had a turn to add to the story.
We did have to steer them away from killing off everyone, by explaining that
if you kill all the people, that's the end of the story!
The story had dinosaurs, dragons, Maori people, fourteen girls (we loved that Lily asked "how many girls do we have again?" before she could tell us her part of the story.
The Maori people came to help the girls and saved the day (thanks Lily)!
What a delightful way to spend childhood!
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