Camp Diagon Alley

This summer I went to Wah-Sha-She for a Girl Scout Camp called Diagon Alley. It was all based on Harry Potter.
It was at the same time as some other Girl Scout Camps, so we were a lot of girls who saw each other about 4 times a day. At meals, and at night when we showered in the showerhouse. That was the only thing we had in common, and it was the only time we saw each other. The leaders of the camp are apparently Christien,because they had us singing a grace before every meal(blllbblaaaaa(that's me throwing up in case you didn't know)and ahhhuuu(sigh) and augh(groan)).

I also got another Camp Diagon Alley. Nana always does this thing where she takes all the grandkids for about a week. She has us stay in the upstairs guestrooms as our cramped little bedrooms and we get to do fun crafts and get one on one time with Nana. She does this every summer and calls it Camp Nana. This year I tried to get into the real Camp Diagon Alley, but every time we tried to contact the camp directer, somthing went wrong, either she wasn't there, or all the spots were filled,then we'd hear that someone dropped out and there was an opening. After a while of all that riffraff, it started to look like I wasn't going to get to go, so Nana (trying to let me still have the fun of Camp Diagon Alley) said she'd be willing to let Camp Nana be based on Harry Potter. However, when we tried one last time to get ahold of the camp directer, it worked,and there was an opening, so we sent the papers in right away!


Camp Diagon Alley started on a Sunday, and I missed all the camp rules and such, so I got it like five minutes instead of getting up for the day. I was the last one there, so I got the house that had the least amount of people on it. Slytherine.(did I spell that correctly?) Everyone else got to draw from the sorting hat.(it was a whitches hat--cool!) I kindof was jeolous of the other members, because they got a bigger chance of getting a toleratable house and got to draw from a cool hat. After my first breakfast, we went to make wands, and trying to get in the spirit of things, I decorated mine with green and white adhesive tape(who would've thought that they would give us somthing like that to decorate our wands?) and with yellow ribbons shooting out of it for sparks. I was the lucky one to get the special wand that the instructer was holding because its comfyist 'cause it's round. My wand actually looked like a wand, instead of a square rod covered in tape. Later on in the week, we made Harry Potter school hats,(they don't wear hats) Harry Potter glasses,(what's the point?) butter beer,(vanilla rootbeer mixed with carmel) and chocolate frogs(no-bakes shaped by us into the form of froggies--fun and yummy!).

Camp Nana Diagon Alley was differant, the older gandkids came over every day for a little while for about an hour before Camp Nana actually started, to make signs for the different shops we were going to have, and once to watch Harry Potter #1 to get in the Harry Potter mood(ok fine it was more to see what the signs looked like) We had; Olivianders wand shop, where we got our glowstick wands, Obscurous Books(I did that one!), just for senery, Grimmline's Bank, where we got to have a sampling of what real money was like(2gallos, 4 sickels and 6 knuts--I think), Florine Fortiscue's Ice Cream Parlor, where we could buy candy after lunch,(there were caldron cakes, Weaslys Wizarding whezes, painterze, eye of newt, licorice wands, and after we had made them, chocolate frogs) a welcome to diagon alley sign, a platform 9 3/4 sign(I made this sign), Dumbledore's Office, where the bad kids go, complete with gorgoels(I made these signs), a girl's dormatry(I made this sign as well) and a boys dorm. I made more signs than the others because I came over one day when they weren't able to come.

The first thing we did was the sorting into houses. We actually put on a witche's hat covered in crincled brown paper,to make it look old, and Nana sang in a deep voice what the sorting hat actually said in Harry Potter #1. Then she called us by name one at a time and had us put on the sorting hat, and she would say words about our character and pronounce if we were in house A or house B. Xander even got a turn, but because there were 6 grandkids without him and because he wold only come be a part of Camp Nana for an hour every day he was put in house C. Next everyone decided which colors they're house would be and we had to come up with a name. My house decided on "Duckbill" with green and blue. We made our posters with our name and mascot, and Aunt Bonnie did Xander's. His was "Banana" with yellow and brown, because he practically is a monkey. We got to play Quiditch on broomsticks kicking a ball into the other team's goal. We had a keeper, who was like a goaly, a chaser, like everyone else on a soccer team, and a seeker, who would run around looking for the snitch(a rock painted gold with gold sparckles). Our team didn't have anyone who had ever played soccer, so we were losing by a lot when nobody had found the snitch and Nana finaly said "Ok let's to a boy scout search fo it, it's in the part of the field", so we searched and searched for it, and then finaly Aunt Bonnie found it and said "Oh I found it, I guess I get the points for it!" then Logan who was on the other team said "Oh no you don't" and ran at her and took it from her hand. His team was awarded exta points for quick thinking. We also made baby mandrakes, which were like dirt babies, and I still have mine. Each team gets one dinner that we get to make by our selves, and while we were making our mandrakes, the other team was planning their dinner,and vise versa. As I mentioned earlier, we made chocolate frogs. These frogs were made with molds and chocolate and peanut butter. They tasted like holiday recess you know, the ones shaped like a christmas tree, or pumpkin or easter bunny. While one team was making them in the kitchen, the other team got to envent a board game that is like an other board game, but Harry Potter. The game we invented was a traditional game but the obstacles were different. Oh, I forgot to mention the hourglasses that held our team points we earned by doing nice things for people, Nana kept track of the nice things with little cicles of cardstock.She wrote what we did on the back of the circles. Each of us got a paper owl with pipe cleaner feet. The feet were made so that a note could be written and snuck into the owl's feet,so that the person who owned the owl could receive notes like they did in Harry Potter. In the end, the two teams tied, but Xander received the House Cup(a sippy cup)