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Vacation Recap Week 1

I’ve been on vacation for a week now doing my thing at the summer camp.  And it’s just been one of those weeks that keeps you smiling the whole time.  This has been the best time I’ve ever had here!

I won’t go through every little detail day by day but it’s just been one awesome week.   It’s not anything different.  It’s the same really as previous summers.  But I’m just enjoying it a lot more for some reason. Maybe it’s because everything is going fantastic as far as setting up the computer things (the job I’m doing here) but I am just generally having a swell old time hanging out.  And as far as the computer thing goes I’ve actually figured out a whole boatload of things that had me completely stumped/confuzzled/frustrated last year.  Now it’s all super clear and things are working as smooth as ever!  Maybe it’s the coffee I’ve been drinking each morning? Last year I was all tea, but this year I’m doing coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon (chamomile and mint in the evening).  I think it keeps my brain on overdrive.   Or something like that.

It’s just been just great seeing people I’ve known for years and getting to spend time with great friends.  I’m also making lots of new friends and we are just having so many laughs and fun times hanging out around camp.  It’s been a bit chilly lately so we have been hanging out nights by the fire in the lodge. One night was a fire on the beach, another night we were out on the town in Portland.  Good food, good drinks, good friends.   Camp friends are more like extended family than friends.

I think the best night of the week was a lip-sync contest.  it was pretty freakin sweet.  All of the cabin staff participates in kind of a “mock evening program” as practice for how to run an evening program for the campers.   This year the staff put on the most creative and funniest lip sync’s that I’ve ever seen.  I decided to contribute with my own lip-sync performed to the double rainbow song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA).   I put on my rain jacket, rain boots, took out my umbrella and put on a small theatrical performance.  I did a last minute chorography to the song that everyone kinda sorta thought was super fantastically funny.

Tonight I’ll be doing a song for the staff talent/ no talent night.  It’s just a good fun time where everyone and anyone who wants can get up and do anything they want.  I do a song every year.

So that’s been my first week.  I’m looking forward to week two.  The campers arrive tomorrow and I’ll probably have my hands full with helping the campers figure out how to email friends and family back home, but if it’s anything like how all the other technology things have been it should be smooth sailing.

I hope everyone else is having a fantastic start to the summer of 2011.

I’ll leave you with a picture of one of the sayings written all over the lodge.