WHERE DID I LEAVE OFF?
oh yeah, getting a good night's sleep instead of walking around a creepy, dark, campground in the middle of the night...
CAMP - DAY TWO
what... a wonderful night... slept like a baby, didn't have to wake up for a 3am night patrol shift... had my own bedroom and bathroom all to myself... i could get used to THIS kind of camping! big stretch.... up and showered... and just enough time to hit the latte stand before breakfast (yes, they had one at this camp - it wasn't Starbucks, but it was better than the coffee in the staff lounge or the dining hall...) ran into the darbs and some of her friends, so we hung outside drinking our coffee and taking random pictures... i've included one of katy's butt here... cute yoga pants, right??
then off to the dining hall for breakfast... gag... the food there sucks BIG TIME! so back to the latte stand for a 2nd coffee (what? there's protein in soy milk!!) and another parent meeting... this time we were assigned our positions for that evening's activities which included another showcase, followed by either a movie in the tabernacle or karaoke in the gym, so all of us parents were assigned spots to keep all the kids within the "perimeter" between and around the two designated areas... my assigned spot was BEHIND (and outside) the tabernacle building... so i walk back there with my flashlight and it is DARK... and CREEPY... and nobody else is back there but me... oh hell no... not staying back there for two hours (or two minutes, for that matter...) i planted my butt INSIDE the tabernacle, right in the front row, and watched the feature presentation... i mean, i was watching to make sure none of the kids ran out the back door (behind the screen) cuz i would've totally chased 'em down... but i digress...
after breakfast and the parent meeting, i had absolutely nothing to do until lunch... in fact, this whole entire day i had nothing to do except mealtimes and the evening activities... BORING! being a cabin leader was REALLY looking like a much better option at this point... so this is how i spent my day... napping, reading, walking around taking pictures of the camp, just sitting on the dock down by the lake, reading some more, walking around some more, hanging around with darbey and her friends for a bit, sitting in the staff lounge quietly listening to all the interesting conversations, more napping, more reading, wondering if this day will ever end... and FINALLY...
SHOWCASE - NIGHT TWO
i was really looking forward to this because showcase the night before was SO good! the whole thing opened up with a bunch of the kids parodying the potter puppet pals, with the teachers as the puppets... it was funny even if you weren't familiar with the potter puppet pals, but it was HILARIOUS if you were familiar with the potter puppet pals :D
then, just like the night before, there was all kinds of amazing talent displayed... here's the kid that looked like justin bieber... he actually danced to a justin bieber song... and if you know my daughter, you know i had to get a picture of this guy.
and the closing act of showcase this night was SOTA's other main rock band, Roswell... AMAZING! and even though there were just as many warnings against mosh pits and crowd surfing, i did see at least one kid get "surfed".
check them out here http://www.reverbnation.com/roswelltheband their song Bells, is seriously addicting!
MOVIE NIGHT
so... since i stationed myself inside the tabernacle for movie night, i kicked back to enjoy Mean Girls with a room full of teenagers... now that was an experience... lots of interesting comments being shouted out during various scenes...
AFTER THE EVENING ACTIVITIES
i should point out here that we (the parent volunteers) were all warned at the morning parent meeting that night two of camp includes all kinds of ruckus by the seniors, and usually a few "senior pranks" and the ringing of the camp bell... as we were leaving the tabernacle, we could hear some seriously loud rock music coming from the direction of the gym... turns out this was one of the "senior pranks"... Rooftop Warrior (the rock back from showcase - night one) had somehow gotten a hold of the u-haul truck they use for all the luggage and set up their own little rock concert in the back of it... it was pretty cool, actually :) but got shut down fairly quickly... then we were trying to get all the kids back to their cabins... knowing full well there would be seniors sneaking out for more ruckus all through the night...
so here's what happened...
somewhere around midnight, a game of "capture the flag" broke out in the field... all of the seniors had warpaint on their faces and the bell got rung so many times, the camp people finally cut the rope on the thing... once that settled down, a whole group of senior boys snuck out again and went around screaming and banging on cabins and such... all of this happened... while i was snug and warm in my bed :) i could hear it all, but it didn't bother me in the least... although i guess some of the camp workers (who live at the camp during the season) called the cops... oopsie.
CAMP - DAY THREE (otherwise known as "go home" day)
i skipped breakfast at the dining hall and went straight for the latte stand... packed up my stuff, attended the final parent meeting to get my bus assignment, and waited patiently for the buses to arrive to bring us home... this time i was assigned Bus 8... and i just have to say that the bus ride home was SO quiet... tired kids on a bus going home from camp is much easier to chaperone than hopped up kids on their way to camp... once we made it home home, i pretty much slept the entire rest of the day... thank goodness there was still a 3-day weekend ahead, cuz i needed to recover!
NEXT YEAR
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| katy's butt... |
then off to the dining hall for breakfast... gag... the food there sucks BIG TIME! so back to the latte stand for a 2nd coffee (what? there's protein in soy milk!!) and another parent meeting... this time we were assigned our positions for that evening's activities which included another showcase, followed by either a movie in the tabernacle or karaoke in the gym, so all of us parents were assigned spots to keep all the kids within the "perimeter" between and around the two designated areas... my assigned spot was BEHIND (and outside) the tabernacle building... so i walk back there with my flashlight and it is DARK... and CREEPY... and nobody else is back there but me... oh hell no... not staying back there for two hours (or two minutes, for that matter...) i planted my butt INSIDE the tabernacle, right in the front row, and watched the feature presentation... i mean, i was watching to make sure none of the kids ran out the back door (behind the screen) cuz i would've totally chased 'em down... but i digress...
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| some canoeing action... |
SHOWCASE - NIGHT TWO
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| puppet pals |
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| the kid that looked like justin bieber |
and the closing act of showcase this night was SOTA's other main rock band, Roswell... AMAZING! and even though there were just as many warnings against mosh pits and crowd surfing, i did see at least one kid get "surfed".
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| roswell |
MOVIE NIGHT
so... since i stationed myself inside the tabernacle for movie night, i kicked back to enjoy Mean Girls with a room full of teenagers... now that was an experience... lots of interesting comments being shouted out during various scenes...
AFTER THE EVENING ACTIVITIES
i should point out here that we (the parent volunteers) were all warned at the morning parent meeting that night two of camp includes all kinds of ruckus by the seniors, and usually a few "senior pranks" and the ringing of the camp bell... as we were leaving the tabernacle, we could hear some seriously loud rock music coming from the direction of the gym... turns out this was one of the "senior pranks"... Rooftop Warrior (the rock back from showcase - night one) had somehow gotten a hold of the u-haul truck they use for all the luggage and set up their own little rock concert in the back of it... it was pretty cool, actually :) but got shut down fairly quickly... then we were trying to get all the kids back to their cabins... knowing full well there would be seniors sneaking out for more ruckus all through the night...
so here's what happened...
somewhere around midnight, a game of "capture the flag" broke out in the field... all of the seniors had warpaint on their faces and the bell got rung so many times, the camp people finally cut the rope on the thing... once that settled down, a whole group of senior boys snuck out again and went around screaming and banging on cabins and such... all of this happened... while i was snug and warm in my bed :) i could hear it all, but it didn't bother me in the least... although i guess some of the camp workers (who live at the camp during the season) called the cops... oopsie.
CAMP - DAY THREE (otherwise known as "go home" day)
i skipped breakfast at the dining hall and went straight for the latte stand... packed up my stuff, attended the final parent meeting to get my bus assignment, and waited patiently for the buses to arrive to bring us home... this time i was assigned Bus 8... and i just have to say that the bus ride home was SO quiet... tired kids on a bus going home from camp is much easier to chaperone than hopped up kids on their way to camp... once we made it home home, i pretty much slept the entire rest of the day... thank goodness there was still a 3-day weekend ahead, cuz i needed to recover!
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| bus 1 of 11 here to take us home... |
i think i wanna go back, but definitely be assigned to a cabin and some kids... i wonder if the crazy will wear off before i have to officially sign up to volunteer for next year? we shall see...
#supertired
bwahahaha! you got off easy! :))) i'm so glad you and darbs shared this experience it sounded like it was a blast.
ReplyDeletethe only bummer is that i missed the karaoke stuff, and that's where darbs was... and she sang... with a bunch of friends... and got herself into the middle of the dance circle with everyone screaming "go darbey! go darbey!" and i missed it :(
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