Today started out with Lazy Breakfast, which is always a nice start to the day for the campers. The admin team makes egg-based dishes to order, and skipping breakfast is an option if sleep is preferred, but few miss out entirely on the delicious omlettes and Rocky Mountain bullseye (aka “toad in a hole” aka an egg inside a piece of toast. It’s good stuff. Then we had out 3rd and 4th period activities before lunch. From there, things got a little spoooooooky.
To start with, dessert today was fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies delivered by our kitchen manager, decked out a Santa Claus. It was a VERY convincing costume. During rest period, we had our last sign up for activities of this summer, which was scary for a different reason.
Then the Halloween fun began in earnest. We started with a favorite EP but as an afternoon activity: the counselor hunt. The counselors “disappeared” and the campers searched camp for them, and to earn points for their Blue/White team. While this went on, the admin team hollowed out 20 watermelons, and after the Counselor Hunt finished we had campers make jack-o-lanterns out of the watermelons. The sweet interior was used as a base for a watermelon lemonade at our barbeque dinner. The last part of the afternoon was a free period themed around spoooooky Halloween events like switching up the way the kids play trampball, and other little but mischievous tweaks to the norms. Good stuff.
We had a burger barbeque dinner, and afterwards we had trick-or-treating. Each counseling team was given a supply of trick-or-treat favorites, and the kids went cabin to cabin to knock on the door and see what they got. It was hilarious to watch, and also kind of cool to see kids “wandering the neighborhood” with their bags of goodies and comparing what each cabin was giving out. We then had an station-based evening program called the “Evil EP” which is stations with a bit of a villainous twist, sometimes in that they were HARD and other times in that they had a bit of dark humor to the theme. We wrapped up tonight in the CA, watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and having a snack of some popcorn before heading to bed.
The jack-o-lanterns turned out VERY cool, by the way. Some photos are attached. It was going to be a contest but honestly, they’re all so good, we’re gonna not worry about labelling a winner. Seems a very camp way to end the day.
So until the real one in October, today was a thoroughly successful stand-in for Halloween. We hope your day was only treats, no tricks! Thanks for reading and have a great night!!
Best wishes,
Jeff Melrose
Program Director