Girls from Camp Mystic’s Nightingale Nook Cabin have raised $8,000 by sharing Tweety Cookies, which are famous at the camp they love, with their neighbors in Dallas.
The girls spent days baking about 550 of the oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies and making pink, purple, and green Camp Mystic bracelets.
For campers, Tweety Cookies are both delicious and a reminder of summers spent with lifelong friends at a place that feels like home.
The treats were so popular at the campers’ stand on Hillcrest Avenue Thursday afternoon that the girls sold out in an hour, even though they had planned to stay open for two. The Nightingale Nook girls took orders from those who missed the cookies, and went to work baking more.
“A lot of people died in this flood,” said 10-year-old Miller Wortley, “and I love Camp Mystic so much.”
Miller, who has attended Camp Mystic for two years, said her favorite part of camp was making new friends. Other Nightingale Nook girls spoke about how much they loved tribe games, and raved about the camp’s food, especially the chef salad and chocolate mousse.
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Miller and her friends returned home from camp only a week before Kerr County’s catastrophic flooding. Miller’s mom, Samantha Wortley, said hearing about the disaster was paralyzing, and that the losses have been unimaginable.
The cookie stand “is so small in the grand scheme of things,” she said. “But it’s a way for us to give back.”
The Nightingale Nook girls are donating their cookie money to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund. Click HERE to learn more about the fund, or to make a donation.
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