2023 Mario Kart Race
Our first Saturday together at 2-Week Camp was a blast!
Back home, campers might spend Saturday morning playing video games, but yesterday we got to play a popular game in real life - it was Mario Kart day! On weekends at camp we take a break from our typical schedules and spend the morning playing an all-camp-game together.
After breakfast, each cabin got the supplies to build their own Mario Kart out of cardboard boxes to compete against other cabins in their line! Four campers had to fit inside a completely closed Kart, running around one lap together before switching out in the pit lane for another four campers, who would then run the final lap.
Just like a Mario Kart video game, there were plenty of items, obstacles, and powerups out on the course to influence the race! Item boxes would appear on the course at certain times, and a cabin could take one item box per lap if it appeared. They could receive the following powerups:
- Banana: If you received the “banana” powerup, a yellow dodgeball could be thrown at a kart behind you; the yellow staff member would then make the kart behind spin around one time before resuming the race.
- Green Shell: The green shell (a green dodgeball) could be thrown at a kart ahead; the green staff member would then make the cabin spin one time before resuming the race.
- Blue Shell: The blue shell (a blue dodgeball) could be handed to a blue staff member, who would then sprint ahead to the first-placed team to make them spin one time before resuming the race.
- Bullet Bill: The purple dodgeball could be given to Mario or Luigi, who would let that cabin’s kart take a shortcut.
- Squid: Turning in an orange dodgeball to Bowser, Waluigi or Wario, would let them use Super Soakers to spray all of the other cabins and throw them off their game!
The end of the race finished with popsicles! From there we headed to free choice time, and then lunch.
In the afternoon on Saturdays, we get to do “special signups” and try some different activity offerings than usual. Yesterday afternoon the boys could choose from:
- open pickleball or tennis
- 5 on 5 basketball
- Games under the Dining Hall
- 1v1 “King of the Field” at Flag Football
- Reading and conversation at the Overlook
- Free draw at arts and crafts
- Playing “Sort the Court” under the Dining Hall
- Doing an “ab ripper” or “leg day” workout in the Lodge
- Playing rugby on the landsports field
- Floating and/or swimming in the lake
- Slacklining at the Climbing Wall
- Football layouts in the lake (catching the ball while jumping off the diving board)
We’re looking forward to a stellar Sunday today.