The Good Stuff!

Hi All,

So I decided to make this an upbeat blog! No heavy subject matter, no sadness and no intensity. I have committed to writing this post with simple reflections of happiness, fun and good weather (you might have to be flexible on that last one). If I was a Chippewa parent viewing the weekly blog I think that I would want to read about smiling campers, exciting programming and pretty things. I would want to know how the last week has been absolutely magic

al, and how Song Fest (Sunday) was a magnificent sight to see (you may have caught the photos). I might want to learn about how neat it was having close to 25 alumni visiting this past weekend for our annual Ten-Year celebration. I guess that I might be curious to know what the proud Ten-Year Girl's names were (Armani D., Kourtney K., Sarah S., Jessica J. and Jen P.). I might want to know that camp ran a great day of activities today (despite the weather). I would have been interested in the fact that there was a Horseshoe social on Saturday night and (as always) it was a hit! Finally, I would be VERY anxious to know about the

exciting week ahead. What a coincidence... I happen to have that information. Allow me to tell myself :) Feel free to listen in...

Tonight was a great Tan & White game for yucky weather called Scatter Brains. Tomorrow is one of the biggest days of the summer called Kahuna Day! It's a full day of fun and competition played by the four teams that camp has already been split in to. Every year the theme for Kahuna Day changes, and this year the theme is CANDY! The four team names are KitKat, Charleston Chew, Three Musketeers and Crunch. Note that even TEAMS at Chippewa are peanut free ;) There will be more photos from tomorrow than you will know what to do with, but they will be colorful and fun so be sure to check them out on Thursday morning! Thursday night is Lip Sync and Friday evening we will have a campfire led by our 4th graders. Saturday we run our older girl's talent show with Camp Menominee and Sunday is our Colt Village musical (Beauty and the Beast). They will be performing for Camp Timberlane. So LOTS of fun ahead. Once again stay tuned for photos and tweets of things to come!

*I am sorry for the lack of photos last night. Due to severe weather we were unable to leave the computers running to do an overnight upload.

*2012 ENROLLMENT- We THANK YOU so much for all of your applications. We are thrilled that our girls are loving their summer home! I think that there has been some confusion, however, regarding second session campers. Second session returning campers will have preference for their SECOND SESSION spots until September 1st. In other words, your daughter's space cannot be filled by a 2012 girl looking to switch to being an 8-week camper OR by a first session camper looking to switch to second session.

I am sorry if that was unclear!

As a final note in this blog I thought that I would share something kind of cool. I received an email from a gentleman named Sam Gold. This email came amid all of the sadness that transpired throughout last week. He expressed an urge to visit camp and seemed very enthusiastic about the concept. At first I simply could not place the name. I thought about it some more and proceeded to re-read the letter. It then clicked and I realized that I was being emailed by the son of this camp's founder (Jerome Gold). I was shocked because Lisa and I (despite our efforts) had never been able to meet ANY of the Gold family. After selling Tom Adler the camp in 1979 the Golds seemed to vanish from sight. Sam was a young guy when the camp sold to the Adlers, but his memories were vivid and I took great joy in chatting with him and showing him around a bit. Camp chaos ensued :) and I was unable to spend much time with him, but I must say that making his acquaintance was an absolute privilege and one of this summer's most memorable highlights for me. Getting the "Gold Standard" of approval on the current state of camp didn't hurt either! Anyway, I thought I would share that with you!

Have a great week and I look forward to talking soon.

Stay tuned...

All best,

Cliff