--- title: Summer Camp and Youth Development Blog | Camp Champions | General (8) description: General | (8) --- [Register Online](https://champions.campintouch.com/ui/forms/application/camper/App) [Camp Champions](https://www.campchampions.com/) # Camp Champions Blog ## [Happy Birthday Susie!](https://blog.campchampions.com/2839) Posted by [Steve Baskin](https://blog.campchampions.com/author/steve-baskin) on Dec 24, 2011 6:00:05 AM Today is Susie’s birthday.  She is now a lovely ?!#*@#%! years old, but looks a decade younger.  So, what does our lovely matron get for her birthday?  A domestic flight on a Thai airline.  Yippee!  What better way to celebrate. If the flight was not enough, she also has to suffer the loss of the beach.  It is actually cruel if you think about it.  Our adamant lover of the surf and hater of flying must board a plane and leave the shore behind. [Read More](https://blog.campchampions.com/2839) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.campchampions.com/2839#comments-listing) Tags: [General](https://blog.campchampions.com/topic/general) ## [An Excruciating Excursion](https://blog.campchampions.com/an-excruciating-excursion) Posted by [Steve Baskin](https://blog.campchampions.com/author/steve-baskin) on Dec 23, 2011 4:29:32 AM There are some things that you cannot unsee.  You might wish that you could forget them, but they remain seared in your brain. Today, such a vision happened. [Read More](https://blog.campchampions.com/an-excruciating-excursion) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.campchampions.com/an-excruciating-excursion#comments-listing) Tags: [General](https://blog.campchampions.com/topic/general) ## [Have You Ever Been Mellow?](https://blog.campchampions.com/2817) Posted by [Steve Baskin](https://blog.campchampions.com/author/steve-baskin) on Dec 22, 2011 1:17:11 AM There is little to report today. [Read More](https://blog.campchampions.com/2817) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.campchampions.com/2817#comments-listing) Tags: [General](https://blog.campchampions.com/topic/general) ## [Pools and Politics](https://blog.campchampions.com/pools-and-politics) Posted by [Steve Baskin](https://blog.campchampions.com/author/steve-baskin) on Dec 21, 2011 12:42:33 AM We are experiencing the extremes of beach vacations. [Read More](https://blog.campchampions.com/pools-and-politics) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.campchampions.com/pools-and-politics#comments-listing) Tags: [General](https://blog.campchampions.com/topic/general) ## [Departing Koh Phi Phi](https://blog.campchampions.com/2797) Posted by [Steve Baskin](https://blog.campchampions.com/author/steve-baskin) on Dec 20, 2011 5:15:18 AM We are leaving the glorious beach resort at Koh Phi Phi. 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[Read More](https://blog.campchampions.com/2768) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.campchampions.com/2768#comments-listing) Tags: [General](https://blog.campchampions.com/topic/general) ## [Resting with Regina](https://blog.campchampions.com/resting-with-regina) Posted by [Steve Baskin](https://blog.campchampions.com/author/steve-baskin) on Dec 17, 2011 3:47:20 PM After 5 weeks of hard travel in China and Nepal, we are at the beaches of Thailand.  It is beautiful and remote and fun. But you need not take my word for it.  Instead, let Regina show you. [Read More](https://blog.campchampions.com/resting-with-regina) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.campchampions.com/resting-with-regina#comments-listing) Tags: [General](https://blog.campchampions.com/topic/general) ## [Great Memories Come Unexpectedly](https://blog.campchampions.com/great-memories-come-unexpectedly) Posted by [Steve Baskin](https://blog.campchampions.com/author/steve-baskin) on Dec 16, 2011 4:15:57 AM Ours was an outdoor wedding.  We held it at the camp we had co-founded under a huge stone arch.  Our loved ones sat in white wooden chairs in ideal weather – warm with high blue skies.  Two dear family friends were our officiates.  12 friends and families stood with us as we said our vows.  Susie was radiant. It was perfect . . . until it wasn’t. 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