Well I went to camp Monday night to Tuesday morning. It was so weird to be up there, yet at the same time I almost felt like I never left. Well, that's not entirely true since I kept running into strangers. Anyway, I had a really good time up there. I got to see all my cute kids that are up there... Giraffe, Frogger, Jabberwocky, Otter, and Flipper. I finally gave them my Frisbee is my Hero shirts. :o) It was so fun to see them wearing them around camp on Tuesday.
Let's see... briefly, the highlights... waking up Frogger on the dock at promise beach, finding Tex and Flipper in Wanish at 11:00pm (WAY late in the camp world), tugging on Jabbs to wake up at 12:08am on her birthday "go crawl into your hole and die!", hiding from the mysterious and hyper ad staff, "sleeping" at the flagpole with Rocket and watching the stars disappear into the morning, catching up with all the D-R-A-M-A, my talk with Bubbs, doing Frogger's hair, having a water nalgene fight with Giraffe, talking with my Popples, throwing the birthday Jabbs into the pool, getting thrown into the pool, spending time in the ark beating Jabbs with a balloon, just beating on Frogger any chance I got, seeing Scooter's new hair-do, catching up with Otter, eating enchalatas with Adidas and Punky, chasing a bi-polar girl down Pasole hill with Freddi, taking the death shortcut down Pasole hill (crap! I don't have health insurance, CRAP!! I'm not covered under worker's comp!), all the talks in the Biffy, and my drive home where I had to pull over and walk around to wake up after having an hour of sleep the night before.
Ok, so I guess that wasn't so brief. I haven't quite decided if I'm glad that I'm not up there or not. I miss it terribly. It's just so good to see the staff and feel worry free from the outside world. The people up there are each so individual and special. I think that's what breaks my heart the most. I never want to miss out on anything. I stall until the last possible minute because I think if I leave, I'll somehow be forgotten. Inside I know that those that matter to me and me to them, I'll never be forgotten and what we have will always be special, but there's a little voice inside me whispering words of fear that this chapter and those in it are coming to a close.
Ashleigh (Pools) and I once talked about how much we missed each other and how there will never be another time to just hang out for mass quanities of time. Camp gives you that chance to connect and hopefully through that connection you can develop a base that will hold strong to pull you through the distance and the time that separates us. I love you each in a very special and individual way. As my wise kid Jabbs once told me... "I think that camp brings out most of the best of people... all my good side goes to camp, and my bad side stays home."
Posted by tricia at July 1, 2004 05:44 PMdon't forget that frogger wasn't the only one you woke up on the dock at 11:30, you woke up that pregnant lady too :)
Posted by: Cheri at July 2, 2004 07:03 PMthanks for all your help with paso! man, dont you just miss those aspects of camp? :)
Posted by: bose at July 4, 2004 12:24 PMYah I know, I tend to wake everyone up... and as for paso... wow! I am so glad that I didn't eat it at the end of the hill. But it was so good to see everyone! :o) *sigh* At times I want to be there more than anywhere else in the world.
Posted by: tricia at July 4, 2004 07:45 PM