Bubble Inn saw generations of 8-year-olds enter as strangers and emerge as confident young ladies equipped with new skills from the great outdoors and lifelong friends – bonds that would one day prove vital in the face of unfathomable tragedy.

Three days after devastating floods killed more than 90 across Central Texas, 10 campers and one counselor remain unaccounted for from Camp Mystic, officials said during a press conference. Monday, July 7,

Campers as young as 8-years-old were swept away by catastrophic flooding in central Texas when tropical rainfall sent the Guadalupe River surging onto Camp Mystic, where the young campers slept.