My Camp report for Spring 2003


This was to be the earliest that I have ever gone to Camp. After carefully packing the car on Monday evening Daddy and I went to sleep early so we could get an early start on Tuesday morning. By 5:00 AM on Tuesday we were on the way to Camp. The trip to Camp was nice with alternating clear sunny skies and cloudy intervals. We stopped several times along the way for little snacks and something to drink. At around 10:30 AM we were driving through Stroudsburg and stopped at a nice gift shop so we could get a couple of mother's day presents. Then we continued on our way to Camp.

We arrived at Camp at about 11:30 AM. I was surprised and very happy that there were several other girls who had also arrived at Camp early. After I got checked in I went to my room to open it up and get ready to move me in. I was very disappointed to find that apparently the last one to occupy the room had been smoking something that had a smell that was both very very strong and very very bad. I opened the windows and sprayed lots of Lysol, but it was Friday before the odor abated at all. For the first three nights whatever it was gave me a headache too. When I go to Fall Camp I will try to make other room arrangements if I find the same situation. Daddy has been thinking of taking something with us to help clean the air.

With the extra delay I was moved into my room and out and ready to play by about 2:00 PM. Later in the afternoon while I was talking with the others, I found out that the Camp dining room is not open on Tuesday evenings. After a lot of discussion, we decided to have one of the local delivery places bring our dinner to Camp. Mr. Angelo was very accommodating and allowed that we could use the "Sun Room" part of the dining room because it could be closed off from the rest of the dining room. He also provided some nice pitchers of soda for us to drink. We telephoned our order and sat in the Sun Room talking while we waited for our food to arrive. We had a very nice time with our Early Girl's Picnic. We even speculated that perhaps we should make the Early Girl's Picnic a regular part of Camp.

By the time we finished our dinner it was getting quite dark and so it wasn't long before I returned to my room to sleep. On Wednesday morning I was up and out by 7:30 AM. I took a short walk and ended up at the main lodge porch.

I am truly sorry, but I never got a chance to finish this report. The good news is that I have just returned from Fall Camp of 2003 and will write a report for Fall Camp.

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