Happy Halloween! “Wait, it’s not October 31^st” you may be thinking and you would be correct. However, here at ILC we like to break all holiday barriers and celebrate whenever we feel like it! Today in the 18462 we are celebrating Halloween with our campers and staff. I have lots to share with about our Halloween celebration later in this blog.

On the weather front, the temps quickly rose to the mid-80’s today with mostly sunny skies. Dare I say it once again? It was another beautiful day in Starrucca, PA!

We had a busy day in sports today. Our female swimmers went out of camp today for a swim meet. Our ILC Open continues on the tennis courts today. And as promised from yesterday, I want to fill you in on our 11^th grade and under boys’ soccer tournament that ran into the nighttime hours. The boys played hard and made it through to the semifinals amongst over half a dozen camps. Their game went into overtime, a shootout, and then sudden death, at which point we missed a goal by 3 inches. Oh well, we can’t win them all!

Today is our big Skatepark Competition for our beginner and intermediate campers. These rad dudes and dudettes will use their newly learned skills on the ramps, rails, and half-pipes to show their friends what they’ve learned throughout the session this summer. The competition takes place right now during the 3^rd minor, which is as I post this blog, so tomorrow I’ll have a list of winners for you. I’m actually going to run over there and watch the competition as soon as I post this.

A reminder of yesterday’s ILC Morning News trivia: What is always coming but never arrives? The answer: Tomorrow! Here’s today’s trivia question: How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide?

Tonight’s evening activity is our Halloween Party! Today many campers have been dressing up in costumes. They vary from wearing onesies to dressing as revival night henchmen, Pink Ladies, purple skittles, unicorns, zombies, and more. We had a costume competition for which the group leaders voted on some winners.

Tonight we will have a big haunted house in the canteen. The rest of the festivities will take place in the gym, which will be set up like a carnival filled with booths. We will have a ton for the kids to participate in at the gym tonight. Here’s a list of the events: fortune tellers, photo booth with props, mystery boxes for kids to put their hands in and figure out what’s in them (such as spaghetti), peculiar potions (figure out what’s in some drink mixtures), Halloween corn hole games, trick-or-treat spin wheel, counselor carving competition (with fruits since pumpkins aren’t exactly in season right now), pin the nose on the witch, sweets in a jar (guess the number), face painting stall, and death certificate booth (instead of a marriage booth). To add to all of this, we will also have spooky social Halloween music playing throughout the gym for kids and staff to dance to. It should be a super silly, fun, fantastic night for everyone. I’ll post blog pics from Halloween for you all to view tomorrow and we’ll have lots of pics up on our website CampMinder page too.

Today’s special feature is yesterday’s MESSY TWISTER with girls group 4! It actually more so turned into just a messy paint party photo session but hey, the girls had fun and that’s all that matters. Enjoy the pics, Happy ILC Halloween, and until tomorrow, ILCUTHERE!