Camp Woodland Blog

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

   Silver Birch Clown Contest Entry at Woodland Fair

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You make new friends.
• You laugh and have fun together.
• You go home and can’t stop talking about it.
• People don’t understand that it is a “camp thing”.
• You get to ride Big Red.
• You are shooting arrows in archery.

Silver Birch Overnight

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You are telling camp stories at home.
• You go home and look at all of the photos online and think of all of the memories.
• You don’t know what to do when you are at home and are bored.
• You play with the goats at Farm Zoo.
• You are eating Dan’s homemade food (especially Oreo Cookie pie)!

Silver Birch on July 4th at Towering Pines

Treetops showing their Woodland Spirit at Assembly

You Know You Love Camp When:

• It is a sunny day.
• It is cabin night and you are having fun with all of the people in your cabin.
• You are excited to see your camp friends at the reunion.
• You miss swimming on Sand Lake.

Treetops on Banquet Night

You Know You Love Camp When:

• You miss the smell of campfire.
• You don’t want to leave.
• You wait all year for camp to start again.
• You are with your camp friends.

Treetops posing in the Rec Hall