Camp Champions Blog

Each session, we honor our oldest normal campers (those just finishing 8^th grade) with a special meal.  It has green bean casserole, garlic breadsticks, potatoes, a special cake and t-bone steaks.  We call them the “T-Bone Club”.  [Note: we have options for vegetarians as well, but we named the event roughly 2 decades ago, before we had many different dietary needs.  The options are wider, but the name stuck.]

A couple of evenings ago, I was sitting in a field with our 9^th grade campers.  One of them posed a simple question:

This morning, a former camper and current camp parent sent me an email that simply made me smile.  I loved the content and it came with a winner of a photo.  With her permission, I share it now.  My contents are in [brackets]:

Welcome to Third Term!!

Several years back, I was talking to a camp mom about her efforts to encourage her children’s friends to come to camp.  She was a particularly enthusiastic recruiter, so I asked her why she spent so much time and effort on it.

As each session draws to close, the Blog River starts to dry up.  My inspirations begin to wane.  [Note: A regular reader might suggest that the stream is already arid.  Perhaps I already “jumped the shark”.  After all, I did write an article featuring foot tans and a costumed dog.]

We had our last meetings with the Senior Campers today.  Over the last 3 weeks, we have met with each group at least 5 times for an hour each.