Session 2 – Day 7: 20 minutes…really 25
Hi Herzl Family!
I have told you in the past about how much happens in a day or in an hour here.
Let me run you through a 20 min period from 8:55-9:20 PM…ok that’s 25 minutes, but that’s kinda the point, everything runs longer than you think…or takes longer than you think. Especially, lights out! I Remember putting my little ones (who are now 21 & 20) to bed and we’d start at 7:30 for a 9:00 landing…one more book, one more song, one more drink of water, one more! Well, that was a cake walk compared to what we live with here. The excuses to delay bed are fantastic:
“I remembered that there is this picture I needed to draw, can I run to Amanut real quick?”
“She has a hangnail and no one has an Emory board in our cabin so I’m helping her to the Marp.”
We love it! The staff make fun with it as much as possible and they mostly kind of laugh with the campers who know that these staff are hip to the groove…because they were there themselves not so long ago.
But I digress…
So here’s what happened in 20 (really 25) minutes. Danya and I begrudgingly got on a golf cart (we try to avoid them at all cost, we’re camp purists…walking or bicycle only) to go out to the teva (camping) site to visit the Habonim boys at their overnight. We got there right in time for the smores (may or may not have been coincidental) and in 5 short minutes we smelled like campfire and bug spray. It felt so classic camp!
As we drove back into camp we went past Mickeys Mitbach were some ha’atid girls were cooking up cupcakes for their lights out program (it may or may not have been coincidental).
As we drove away from the Mitbach we passed the Pavillion where there was some Amudim campers learning Acheinu with some of our Shira team members who have a magic way of getting all these campers into it. They happened to have those little bags of Ruffle Potato Chips, only 160 calories!
From there we stopped into the Chadar where Kadima was watching the movie of Mama Mia in preparation for the Kadima play. Our timing was impeccable because we walked in right at the Dancing Queen scene and that’s the first dance the Kadima kids have learned and the Chadar broke into flashmob perfectly choreographed and led up front by the Counselors who are directing and leading the charge…I watched, smiled, and ate popcorn!
Lastly, we went past the low ropes course where it was in full swing with some Ha’atid boys. They didn’t have anything to eat. I felt robbed, but…
All is well, safely rest.
Thanks for sending your kid to Herzl Camp
לילה טוב
Tommy