Dinosaur hunting, a food fight, surfing, yacht building, and a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat
July 26, 2019This was a wonderful day from start to finish. Great weather, great activities, and so many fun and incredible special events happening on and off campus. We invite you to read about some of our favorite moments of today in the photos and captions below.
We can’t wait to see our families on Visiting Day this SATURDAY, JULY 27!
Just a couple of friends hanging out at the Ropes Course
Tomorrow night our Freshmen, Sophomores and Inters will be putting on their production of "Annie", and today was the dress rehearsal. We cannot wait to see it!
The Kenwood 1st Year Seniors were paddle boarding on the ocean with Adventure Dave
It was a great day hanging out together on the lake
Today was our annual 3D Archery Tournament
Boys and girls at camps around NH traveled to K&E to be a part of this beloved event
What makes this tournament 3D is that the targets are lifesize animal statues that you shoot while on a hike through our woods!
This guy was so excited to tell me he had the best score of anyone in his age group!
This velociraptor didn't stand a chance...
Campers from different teams on a hike through our woods as part of the tournament
This tournament is an unforgettable experience, and that includes us serving meats like elk, emu, camel, kangaroo and bison!
Our friend JT was on hand to perfectly grill up the many exotic meats we had to serve today
This entire event was the idea of Bob Mitchell, Kenwood's Athletic Director. Bob's a pretty creative guy. He came up with Hollowpallooza, too.
Elk steaks. Incredibly tasty.
This giant fish was one of the targets
Kenwood's 2019 3D Archery Team (they won the entire event for the boys' camps)
Evergreen's 2019 3D Archery Team (they won the entire event for the girls' camps)
This young woman had never shot competitively until this summer. Today, she won the entire tournament for all camps and both genders!
These two guys won for their age groups, and the boy on the right had the best score of anyone at a boys' camp
Meanwhile, one of our Kenwood Freshmen came this summer with 1 goal in mind: to be in a food fight. So his Unit Leader Shaun decided to put one together for him...and his entire age group!
"Food fight!"
One of our friends has some food allergies, and because of that didn't want to be a part of the food fight. So instead we let him be the first camper ever to help me run the hose on our antique fire truck. He was so excited.
Hosing down our food fighters at the end of their fun event
There was lots of fun working in Ceramics today
We made new friends today at the Ropes Course
This young carpenter is almost finished with a doll house she has been working on all summer. How cool is that?
Working on a marble maze in the Wood Shop
It's the fifth night of the week, which means it was time for another #AnythingCanHappenThursday dinner. Tonight's theme: Thanksgiving. Why? Because we wanted to tell our campers how thankful we are for this amazing month together!
Roasted turkey, sweet potatoes, homemade stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy and steamed carrots.
And, of course, homemade pumpkin pie!
One of our alumni came for a visit today. He was these guys' counselor 7 years ago, and they were super excited to see him (it was mutual)
Tonight, Kenwood's evening activity was "Yacht or Not". Each bunk worked on creating boats made out of cardboard and duct tape. If they could make it across the waterfront without sinking they were declared a Yacht. If they could not, well, then they were declared a Not. We had a lot of fun, and a lot of Nots.
"So why the cardboard helmet?"
"For safety"
"Oh..."
This bunk won a party at Jason & Deena's house tonight