Hey, Bloggers!

Along with the leaves starting to change color and the beginning of football season, we also have the temperatures beginning to drop to look forward to. Just around the corner are cool mornings, and brisk evenings. It’s important to dress appropriately for your optimal comfort throughout the day.

You’ll find an impressive assortment of solid toned and neatly patterned fleece jackets for kids at Everything Summer Camp. Keep warm when there’s a chill in the air. Around noon the day may begin to warm up so the jacket is easy to lose if need be. Keep it around if you’re still planning on hanging out in the great outdoors for the evening.

Enjoy a campfire on a chilly autumn night or cheer on your home team at a high school football game in the sharp Techmatic or the cute Explorer’s Delight—both fleeces from Columbia. Boys love staying warm in Steens Mountain Fleeces from Columbia as well. They really keep the chill off you. And girls have the Benton Springs Fleece, offered both in solid color as well as a stylish print.

For other tastes, check out the Fast Trek Full-Zip Fleece, the cool Trail Patroller Hybrid Jacket, the Bug Shield Mesh Jacket, our youth Insect Blocker Mesh Hoodie, and the TechniKolor autumn jacket for girls—all from Columbia. These jackets are sure to keep you in comfort as well as cool and stylish color.

After seventy years of continually satisfying their customers and beating their competition, Columbia likes to think that they know what it takes to make exceptional outdoor gear. Stay comfortable in the cooler months with these great pieces of outerwear that you can find right here at Everything Summer Camp.

Till next time, Camp Fans!

Hey, Sports Fans!

Unfortunately, summer camp, as well as summer always has to come to an end. But as disappointing as that can be, look at the bright side—the end of summer marks the beginning of football season! When I was a kid I loved the weekly football parties we had at my house. There was excellent food with endless snacks, funny comments, and of course—football!

 It used to be a lot of work. We would call our guests to see what they were bringing so we could orchestrate some kind of theme. When I was a kid I also thought that my house was the only one that threw such fun football parties like that.

Turns out it’s a pretty popular thing for football fans to do. And since it’s such a popular thing to do, conveniences have been made in technology so that football party planning isn’t quite so much work. Nowadays a party like that is easy to collaborate. Just go online and find Pinterest.

Pinterest is a corkboard style Web site that lets you organize theme-based images. You can share photos, recipes, or anything else you might need to coordinate with your friends so your football parties are as fun as mine were when I was younger.

It’s a very easy, user-friendly Web site where you simply upload your images (as well as word documents or videos), save them, sort through them, and manage them. These images or other type of content that you upload becomes known as pins.

You then choose where you want to these pins to go. If it’s a recipe for a football party, then put it with the rest of your football party corkboard. If it’s instructions on how to juggle, pin it to your hobbies corkboard. It’s that easy to use!

We are taking a break from making footlockers (don’t worry we are still making them, just not quite as many this time of year) to jump on the Pinterest train here at Everything Summer Camp for this football season! Till next time, Blog Fans!

- John

Hey, Parents!

Remember how ecstatic your kids were to get three whole months off from school? “No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks…” Remember? Well, the time for the other foot to drop is approaching quickly. Today’s blog post talks about ways that you can try and soften the fall of that foot so it makes less of a thud when it comes time to go back to school.

Helping your kid transition back into the scheduled days of school routine—getting to bed early, waking up on time, and doing homework—starts with understanding why going back to school is such a big deal to them. I think it’s in the back of every parents’ head, “Quit whining and get back to school!”

Subconsciously, I’m sure we think, “Most of us have to deal with work year-round! You just got three months off! Stop complaining about it!” But we only think that because we have it wrong. Our kids aren’t actually as lazy as they seem. It’s not school that they’re really complaining about—it’s the return to a day with schedules and structure. It’s hard for anyone to transition back.

Here’s a few tips on how to ease the pain:

First, you can help encourage your kid to continue with the hobbies they got into over the summer. Make use of camping supplies and camp trunks.

Two to three weeks in advance of the first day back to school, you can start setting earlier bedtimes and earlier wake times for your kid. You can try to start serving meals around the times that your kid will be eating when school gets here.

Lastly, but possibly most important, you should instill a casually confident air about your kid when it comes to going back to school. Be excited about it for them, but not too excited. Too much excitement can make them suspicious. You’re response to the coming school year will have a major impact on your kid’s.

That’s all for today, folks.

John

Hey there, Summer Lovers!

Remember—rainy days aren’t held to just May and beautiful afternoons in the late summer—rain pretty much comes year round. This time of year especially is notorious for frequent rainfall. The end of summer into September and October usually see quite a bit of rain.

Everything Summer Camp can help you out with our great selection of rain jackets, rain pants, rain suits, and rain boots!

We have a plethora of incredible rain jackets from Columbia like the Wet Reflect Jacket, the Flow Summit II, the Wind Racer II, the Watertight in Men’s, the Arcadia Rain Jacket in Women’s, and the kids’ Chromatech. All of these rain jackets are top of the line with fine detailing and quality construction.

We also have a couple rain jackets from Red Ledge: the youth Jakuta and youth Thunderlight rain jackets. These quality jackets really seal out the rain to keep you dry and comfortable. We carry the Rainstopper youth rain suit from Red Ledge as well. It offers great full body protection. Or you could go with our youth-sized Vinyl Poncho—a great alternative for full body rain protection.

Find great rain pants at Everything Summer Camp to thoroughly seal out rain. We carry the Columbia Storm Surge Women’s Pant as well as the Regen Rain Men’s Pant—also from Columbia.

To keep your feet comfortable and water-free check out our rain boots. We have the youth Pattern Rain Boots, youth Fire Chief Boots, and the effective Kamik Stomp! These boots’ best friends are puddles! They’re made sturdy and smart to keep the rain out and your feet dry.

Schools don’t declare Rain Days where you get to stay home because it’s raining too much, so be prepared to wait for the bus on a rainy morning with our excellent selection of rain gear from Everything Summer Camp!

Hey, Film Fans!

Well, Blog Buddies, in the time that we’ve been blogging—which hasn’t been incredibly long—we’ve talked about a good number of celebrities who have gone to summer camp. Today I have another great celebrity to tell you about who attended summer camp—two of them, actually—when he was about your age.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m talking about Iron Man, himself—Robert Downey Jr. Robert attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts located in Hancock, New York as well as Stage Door Manor in Massachusetts. From a young age, Robert expressed his passion for acting and while attending both camps he was very involved in the plays that they put on.

Robert’s first appearance on the screen came at a young age—before he ever went to summer camp! He debuted in his father’s film, Pound at the very young age of five. Afterwards he played roles in the films Less Than Zero as well as the popular cult classic, Weird Science.

In 2000 he won a Golden Globe Award for his new role in the hit television drama, Ally McBeal. With growing popularity, Robert has been seen in a bunch of more recent movies, but none of them quite so popular as the three Iron Man movies in which he plays the role of Tony Stark. Iron Man started out as a Marvel Comic Book superhero but is now better associated with Robert Downey Jr.

Robert has become incredibly successful over the years making billion dollar movies like The Avengers (another Marvel Comic Book movie), and Iron Man 3. He is now one of Hollywood’s highest paid actors at $75 million in this last year!

And just remember kids, Robert Downey Jr. liked summer camp so much he went to two of them.