Snipe Hunting (Memma style)

Several years ago, S was getting ready to go to her first year of Girl's Camp.

Thankfully she had an older sister to make sure she 

got the "full experience", including a Snipe Hunt.

If you have never been Snipe Hunting and you ever WANT to go

Stop reading NOW....

Ok, you have been warned!

If you aren't familiar with this tradition, the kids who have been to camp a time or two,

take out the new kids that have never been before.

It's like an initiation of sorts.....
A right of passage.....

While Snipes ARE real birds, they are NOT indigenous to Idaho so for 

the purposes of girl's camp, they don't REALLY exist!

To prep her properly, we talked this up for a month or so beforehand 

so she was really into this... I mean REALLY into this!

The night of the hunt came and E and her friend told the girls

that the Snipes are attracted to mint and if they dab toothpaste

on their noses it will bring them out of hiding.

So they figured if a dab is good...

a full face mask of it would be even better!

Burn, baby, burn....hahaha!!!

They get out to into a meadow, armed with their armor of toothpaste 

and their pillowcases...

crawling around on the ground calling for Snipes....

while E and her friend are walking along behind them,

tossing pine cones up ahead of the girls to make noise.

One of the pine cones accidentally hits S on the hand and she starts freaking out 

thinking that one of them BIT her!!!!

Hahahahahah!

E "caught one" in her pillow case and had the girls gather in a circle.

She then let the girls touch it's leg through the pillow case....

As they are gathering in close she is shaking the pillow case 

to make it look like the Snipe was struggling to escape, 

she opened the pillow case and the Snipe came flying out....

It turns out that the Snipe was really just a plastic rat.

Bwahahahaha!!!!!

Just imagine girls covered with toothpaste, running around the woods in the dark,

screaming like....well, a bunch of girls!