Camp Notes

June 29, 1995

Hi!  Sorry I forgot to take you to Rockport (oops).  It was really fun!  But I'm soooooo glad to get back!  So cho mo!  Adam's birthday is on July 1st!  15!!!! Oh!  And me and mommy got my new MITTLE SCHOOL uniforms!  I heart them! 

School uniforms. What's not to heart? Look at these kids
having a great time.  For the record, we did not wear blazers. 

July 2, 1995

Hi!  I'm sitting on my top bunk at T Bar M "Sundown" cabin!  T Bar M is pretty cool so far.  Our cabin girls are COOL!!!!!! The skits are sooooooooo funny!  But I gadda hurry 3 min til B-time! 

T Bar M cabin! 

July 3, 1995

Hi!  It's FOB (feet on bunk).  Camp is a lot of fun!  I like all the conselers (very much) escpesically Micky she is SO funny!  Food - so so could be better.  Last night was CRAZY!  We didn't go to sleep till coach nailed the ringleader.  

July 6, 1995

Hi!  Yeasterday we went on the river floating, it was really fun!  My window at camp has a great view!  Camp is fun, but I kinda want to go home.  I mean, I've had a busy June - barely home, so I miss it.  But when I'm not thinking about it, I'm ok. 

My specialty is volleyball and today I returned like the best players serve!  A really good girl came up and hugged me!  She's nice, her name is Shena.  I like a girl in my cabin, her name is Susan.  

At the fireworks on the 4th, a group of guys kept on going oooo, ahhh, oohhhhh, it was so funny.  Well, now I've got to go (write to Sarah).  Love, Lee. 

What's funnier than going "ooooh, ahhhh" while watching fireworks?

PS. I have a top bunk! 

July 7, 1995

Hi!  Today mom and dad (y) are coming for parents day, then their goinig home, and then tomarrow after breakfast we're going home. (can't really say I'm really sorry) 

Today I rode the screamer for the 2nd time! And the grapevine.  Here are demonstrations of both. 

The screamer is SO cool.  The grapevine is fun too.  When I was on the grapevine my legs were shaking SO bad the whole line was shaking.  

This is a slightly better "demonstration" of what the ropes course looked like. 

Thoughts - 

I'm surprised I don't mention this in my diary, but doing the screamer and grapevine were actually HUGE events for me.  The previous summer, I'd tried to do the screamer (essentially a humungo swing...you ooched yourself off of the repelling tower then went into a free-falling drop), but chickened out and made the walk of shame back down the repelling tower stairs, instead of swinging to the ground in glory.  All year I thought about it, purposing in my heart that I WOULD do the screamer the following summer.  And so I did.