Hello Chippies!
Welcome to the first edition of Cliff Notes for the 2011 season! This blog is intended to serve as yet another way for you to keep in touch with your daughter's camp experience. Our goal (though secondary to focusing on the actual camp experience) is to provide parents with a "window" through which to view camp and much of the fun and excitement that comes along with it. The daily photos are obviously the most significant means of doing this. Popular demand has moved us in the direction of posting FEWER photos each day than last summer. A number of parents felt 700-1000 images was quite a bit to navigate through and also maintain any other kind of life (or job)! This year (and beginning with this evening's uploads) we will be posting between 275-350 photos daily. Photos go up at night and are fully uploaded and viewable by 3 or 4am. Please be patient with us. As important as the photos are, we need to put the camp's day to day operation first. Also (same as last summer), we will most likely not be posting Sunday photos. Sunday is the camera's day off. Please do friend us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and read the camper written & published Summer ChipChat newsletter that will be posted about twice each session. If you would like to follow us on Twitter please visit www.chippewaranchcamp.com and click on the Twitter links at the bottom of the page. You can follow @chippewacliff AND/OR @chippewasari. Call if you have any questions on how to use this. Most importantly, we can be reached by phone or email! My cell is 312-593-0246 and the camp number is 866-209-9322. Don't ever hesitate to get in touch with us.
The past week was great. It rained, and rained, and rained, but so much fun was had! We are fortunate to have a wonderful staff that made sure the girls were active and having a fantastic time. Monday evening of course brought the arrival of the campers and the opening Friendship fire! Tuesday was the introduction to Tan & White. The spirit of Donny Quay has once again "surfaced", and with his approval the games were allowed to commence! The girls found out what team they were on and the cheering immediately began! Wednesday night was our staff show and Thursday evening brought Big & Little Sister Night. Friday night the cabin of Trailriders put on a value based campfire with the beautiful theme of unity. Saturday evening was the Menominee social. Sunday was cabin day and the girls went into Minacqua to experience "city life" in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Later that evening we played the ever popular Tan & White game called Barn Yard Bedlam and Monday night brought Pirate Night. During Pirate Night each cabin dressed in a specific color and they ran around together looking for flags, solving clues and avoiding pirates. So much fun!
The week ahead will bring The Camper Talent show, G.L.O.W (staff wrestling show), Movie on the Green, The Tan & White Camper/ Counselor Hunt and SO much more! Monday is of course July 4th and the awesome cabin of Lakeview is hard at work getting ready to provide the campers with a great day ending (weather permitting) with one of the best firework shows in the country! For this holiday figure that you have a few options- The Disney World Magic Kingdom fireworks show, The Bellagio fountain production in Vegas, Central Park's show in New York City and the county annual 4th of July Firework act in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. Guess which one we are going to attend ;)
There is SO much more to come. Let us know if there is something that we can do for you, otherwise we are going to do what we do best... Take care of your daughter and give her a stellar camp experience! I look forward to talking soon.
Stay Tuned!
All best,
Cliff
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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