Sprucelands loves the Sports Toto.

We can do this. Yes we can!

During our fourth session, we had a tremendous lot of fun. In fact, there were all kinds of evening programs that caught our fancy and made us laugh. One such evening was the Sports Toto.

The camp was divided into teams. Then the leaders of the evening would ask for one or two players from each team to come to the front of the room. Sometimes they would say, "We want two players who like ice cream," or "Send us a player who loves to watch TV." Generally, the requests had absolutely nothing to do with the task they were asked to do. Didn't matter. Just added to the fun.

I am the champion of the world.

Each team then voted on who they thought would win the event. Of course, not knowing what the event would be was part of the fun. They just voted either for their team mate or another player and prayed their selected player would win.

So then the leaders would bring out the supplies needed for the task at hand. There was everything in the mix at this Sports Toto. Players were asked to carry small balloons on a spoon from one end of the room to another. Some fed whipped cream to each other. Others wound their partner in toilet paper.

This is really difficult with one ply paper.

At the start of this post,  you see photos of four players who had two ping pong balls and a cool whip container. The container was worn on their head. Their job was to bounce the balls on the floor hard enough so they would bounce high enough to scoop them up with their cool whip container. Lots of laughs and Bria won!

I especially got a kick out of an exercise where each player was given ten ping pong balls. Five had a red stripe on them and five had a blue stripe. There were two cafeteria trays. Their job was to switch the balls so that when finished the four blue ones and red ones were on opposite trays. They couldn't use their hands. They could only blow them.

What fun that was. Three players took about a minute and a half to make the switch. Rose got to laughing with everyone else. Amber was very determined and Jenna got so silly that she made everyone silly with her.

Then our counselor Anna laid down and in 38 seconds flat she made the switch and stood victorious. Amazing. In fact, she did her stint so quickly that I never had time to get a photo. We were all so amazed.

One step at a time. One step at a time.

Hey! This tastes really good.

I love Sports Toto night, partly because everyone participates at one time or another. There's honest, genuine competition over novel events and the teams win only when the vote they placed on a player works. It is a game night that was brought here from Switzerland. I loved it so much that we incorporated it into our camp years ago and it has been popular ever since.

Comments from you are always welcome.