Camp Start Tomorrow

Tomorrow's breakfast is our last meal for just counselors.  Campers arrive tomorrow after breakfast and we are expecting to serve 260 for lunch tomorrow!  I think we are ok but it will probably take a couple of days worth of mistakes to figure everything out.  We had a wonderful get together last night with the staff from all the camps.  It takes place at Aloha Hive which is the young girls' camp down the road a piece from us.  After a chicken picnic everyone gathers and sings camp songs and listens to the directors talk about the history and the magic behind the camps.  I stood in line for dinner with a girl who just graduated from Middlebury, (she had seen my Middlebury Crew hat earlier).  She said she kind of knew you Cailin because she had a friend on the crew team.  One of the captain's maybe?  Her name was Jamie Rosenfeld and she is going to be doing an internship at the Whitney Museum with the woman who is the mother of the twins who are coming to camp for the first time who Renee asked me to write to to reassure and also got Grady her art teaching job.  Small world!

Tonight Don MacIntosh has invited me to go along with some of the senior staff for dinner at a restaurant in town.  Everyone has the night off before the start of camp.  It should be fun.

Yesterday I was able to swim 100 yards and tread water for 5 minutes so I am allowed to jump in Lake Morey.

The day before Don had to give me the road test to allow me to drive camp vans if need be.  It went something like this.
Don:  See that van?
Me: Yeah.
Don: Kick the tires.
Me: Like this?
Don: Yes.  You pass the road test.

Here are some more pictures showing my kitchen, some of the campers tents and some of the counselors helping with a chicken and ribs barbeque we had a couple of nights ago.

Stewart is from Australia

Andrew is from Oklahoma

Not sure where Ross is from but he likes corn.

Trey is from Brooklyn.  Maybe you know him Grady.

Don Macintosh and Addizu Hodes.  Addizu is from Ethiopia and is the one whose father is good friends with the author of Cutting For Stone.

I think it's only been a week since I've been gone but it seems like forever.  Looking forward to seeing Cailin, Connor, Patty and hopefully Bo and Marley on the Fourth!!

Love you all.  Peace.  Peter.