Hey, Camp Aficionados!
Your camp stories for this year’s annual ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest at Everything summer Camp were fantastic! I’m eager to share them with our online community and post each submission right here on the Blog!
Last week concluded the announcements of our ten lucky winners who took larger prizes. And now today, I’ll begin sharing the rest of our submissions. All other entrants receive a $15 gift certificate to our online store simply for participating, making everyone a winner.
The following post is from Katie P. who wrote in to tell us about her time away at Camp Merrie Woode this summer. Here’s her submission:
“One night me and my friend got up around 4:27 am to the sounds of rustling I 
quickly shined the light out of the window and she saw a bear, the bear’s name is Margaruite, I rushed over to see if she was telling the truth and she was. A quick reminder to help you with this story is that me and my friend go by dumb and dumber because we are both over-the-top stupid. I got out of bed rushed to the bathroom and came back to put the trunk in front of the door we didn’t want to wake anybody up and we also didn’t want to be killed for the rest of the night. As we were walking back to our beds my friend tripped on a suitcase and then to my foot making her break her nose and it started gushing blood. We tried to clean it up the best we could but obviously we are dumb and dumber so we didn’t know much on how to fix it. By the way none of the rest of the cabin was awake. We shoved a tampon up her nose and called it a day. We got back into one bed together instead of getting into each of our own beds by ourself. We thought this would be the safest way to sleep. For the rest of the night we were scared so much we couldn’t stop shivering. This was one of the funniest and most terrifying moments of my life!”
You and your friend had quite a frantic night at camp! I’m glad that nobody got hurt too bad and nobody got eaten by a bear either! Thanks for your story, Katie! You had a number of us laughing pretty hard here around the office! How very resourceful of you two to use this hygienic bathroom product on (or should I say ‘in’) your friend’s nose. Also, Margaruite is a wonderful bear name!
If you’re interested in checking out Camp Merrie Woode, give them a closer look sometime. And, as always, thanks for reading!
- John
being away from home period. I was scared at first because I wasn’t going to know anybody there and because I sleep walk. A couple days before I left I told my mom that maybe I just shouldn’t go. But my mom told me that everything would be okay. She showed me pictures and shared stories of all the fun adventures she had at camp herself when she was a kid. So I pushed through all my fear and I went to camp. As much as I hate to say it, my mom was right, Camp Overlook ended up being totally awesome and I can’t wait to go back again! Once I got there I made lots of new friends and one especially great friend, Corbet. Corbet stood out from all of the others, not because he had Autism but because he liked YU-GI-OH just like me except he was a Yu-GI-OH genius! He was also really nice and funny, we laughed a lot! My camp counselor, Jim, did just as he promised me and my mom, he kept me safe even while I slept. My most favorite thing there was “The Blob” a water trampoline that we bounced off of into the lake. When the week ended and my mom picked me up I felt sad to leave but I know I’m definitely going back next year to see Jim and Corbet! EVERYTHING about SUMMER CAMP was awesome!!”
get to choose our schedule. I did all sorts of activities, such as cooking, pottery, horseback riding, and kayaking. I even got to try out some new activities while I was there, mountain biking and lacrosse, and I loved them both! Every night there’s a different program, which is so much fun. My favorite was square dance because it’s such a fun tradition. One of the coolest things we did was go on an overnight. My cabin and I hiked out in the woods a little bit, then made s’mores over the campfire and talked. Then, we got in our sleeping bags and talked till night time. Everyone was afraid to be in the woods in a sleeping bag at night, but experiencing it together was so cool. The best part about Camp Highlander is the feeling of love and tradition. Everyone is so welcoming there, it’s like a big family. I had an amazing experience and I can’t wait to go back next year.”
Washington, D.C. Camp Nakanawa is a girls' camp in Crossville, Tennessee. I had a lot of fun this year! My favorite activities were swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, and archery. A few other things I like about camp are that we wear blue shorts and white shirts and on Sundays we wear all white. I was one of the youngest campers in camp. I was in Cabin #1. We had 4 campers in our cabin and one counselor. Sara was a great counselor. Lucy was my best friend this summer. Lucy's mom went to the same camp with my mom!! Lucy is fun, silly, and wonderful. There is a pond in nature class. One of the fish in the pond died. Lucy picked up the dead fish and squished it. Then she said, ‘Cecilia, I dare you to squish that dead fish!’ I put my hand close to that dead fish but I wasn't sure I wanted to touch it. Then all of the sudden, Lucy smacked my hand on the dead fish. Ugh, it felt slimy and lifeless. Lucy and I laughed till we had to go to tennis class. While I was at camp, I got sick. I had a high fever and had to spend two nights in the infirmary with Nurse Sarah. She was great. She let one of the camp dogs, Ellie, come into the infirmary and hang out with me for a while. While I was in the infirmary, my friends made me cards and brought me things to do. Lucy made me a card that had some playing cards attached to it. Lucy and I liked to play cards together a lot in our cabin. I miss Lucy and can't wait until we are back together again at camp next summer. Camp Nakanawa is the best! I don't want to start school next week!!—I'd rather be at camp.”
winners! Today’s winner is….
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