Monthly Archives:August 2014

2nd Year CIT’s on Banquet Night

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You get super into all of your camp activities (ex: Spoon Assassins).
• You can’t wait to spend the next summer at camp.
• You’ve been away for several years but you still remember all of the crazy songs and traditions.
• You get to hang out with all of your best friends in the cabin.
• You plan your whole year around coming back to camp.

CIT’s at the Beach

You Know You Love Camp When:

• There’s no place you would rather be.
• You countdown to camp next summer as soon as you leave.
• You cry at the thought of leaving.
• You don’t mind getting bug bites.
• Real life problems fade away once you are at camp.

CIT’s Serving Pancake Breakfast — YUM!

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You can’t sing the real lyrics to a song that was sung at Song Contest or Co-Ed Show.
• You go to your camp friends instead of your home friends for advice.
• You are so excited to see your camp friends at the start of every summer.
• You cry during the slideshow.
• No one understands camp at home, and when you try to explain, they don’t get it.
• You’d rather tell your camp friends about the big happenings in your life versus your home friends.

CIT’s Showing Their Sunday Spirit

p.s. This is the last in a series of “You Know You Love Camp When” blogs…stay tuned for new blogs throughout the year!

Driftwood: Final Banquet

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You start bawling and laughing hysterically at the same time because camp is almost over.
• You hate saying good-bye to camp friends.
• You can’t sleep in a room by yourself after returning home after camp.
• You think you hear the Woodland bell ringing when you get home to tell you to get up or to go to your activities.
• You are at home you think about camp, but when you are at camp, you don’t really think too much about home.

Driftwood: Sunday Spirit!

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You realize that you will keep the friends you made at camp forever.
• You refuse to eat your Mom’s cooking because you miss Dan’s food.
• You can’t wait for summer again.
• You look at camp photos on your iPad and you want to be back at camp.

Driftwood: Woodland Fair Clown Contest

Sunnyside: Final Banquet Night

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You make new friends.
• You are sad to leave.
• You share a laugh with your cabin.
• You travel a long way to get to camp.
• You pass a level.
• You collapse into bed at night from exhaustion due to all of the activities.

Sunnyside: Chillin’ at Campfire

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You are sitting by the lake and feel like you are at home.
• You give up a lot of things to come to camp (like traveling and being with your family).
• You feel like you are at home.
• You feel welcome.
• You feel integrated into the camp family.

Sunnyside: Woodland Fair Day

Tamarack: Alien Invasion

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You smile and laugh with your friends.
• Everybody knows all the names of campers and staff.
• You make lasting memories.
• We are in our activities.
• You cry when it is over.

Tamarack: Banquet Night

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You can’t stop laughing.
• Everyone huddles up and cries together when camp is over.
• You think about all of the memories and smiles.
• Counselors are always helping us.
• You are still coming back to camp 10 years later.

Tamarack: Silly Sunday

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You wait all year for camp to start again.
• You call your camp friends, sisters.
• You make new friends.
• You come back and it feels like you never left.
• You learn new skills like getting up on the wakeboard.

Tamarack: Gold Rush Day

Hilltop Banquet Night

You Know You Love Camp When:

• It is the last day and you cry because you are going to miss everyone.
• You are improving your skills.
• You laugh so hard your stomach hurts.
• You are back at home and you are in your bed all alone at night with no bunkmates nearby.
• You forget what day of the week it is.

Hilltop Beach Beauties

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You can be yourself.
• You go home and sing camp songs.
• You tell your parents not to put you in the car to go home.
• You see people who went to camp for a lot of years.
• You don’t like when people mention the last day.

Hilltop Alien Invasion

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You cry with friends at the last campfire.
• You know you can tell anything to your camp friends.
• You wear the weirdest clothes because you know that you can be yourself.
• You put underwear on your head and are not embarrassed.
• When there are no worries or problems.

Hilltop Friends