Session 3 – Day (somewhere in the teens): Swagger

Hi Herzl Family!

I think I’m going to stick to the “what happens in an hour” thing and tell you about my morning. 

The day started bright and early for yours truly.  The alarm went off at 6:25. The Keurig got turned on at 6:26 and a few minutes later, I was walking out the porch into the pleasant chill of the Northwood summer morning. My task this morning was to go over to a boys cabin and wake a couple awesome Habonim campers and an Amudim who won the opportunity for 7 AM ski club. 

Just walking over to the cabin, I took a moment and paused at the beauty all around me. I mentioned this in one of my first session posts, but it’s incredible if you just look up while you’re walking around here and see the natural beauty that hovers just a little bit above us… yeah it’s sometimes so difficult for us to see that because there’s so much going on right in front of us. 

Back to my morning stroll, I was greeted by our two resident redheaded woodpeckers hanging out just past the low ropes course on a dead tree stump. We have a new resident albino squirrel that’s been hanging around.  But it’s the smell of the pines makes me feel so at home here up at camp and I know that smell is going to invoke great memories for our campers for years and years to come. 

But here was the impressive part at 6:45 this morning there was a B’yachad camper who’s getting ready for Cross Country season out in his morning run which is super impressive cause I know how late those campers stay up. And there were two Habonim girls just getting up and walking toward the softball field with a bag full of softballs, a bat, and a glove. They heading to practice before the hustle and bustle of camp would be churning all around them. 

When I got to the boys cabin, tried to quietly sneak in as to not wake anybody else up. But all I had to do is creek a door and those two boys were jumping out of bed, eager and ready to hit the water. 

We got down to the water and we were on the boat out on Devils Lake with the whole place to ourselves, except of course the ever present loons and our friend the eagle looking for breakfast. 

Each boy got a good 10 minute slalom run on perfectly still water and we even caught site of the eagle with a fresh catch. It was perfect… the whole package.

We came back up just after 8:00 and the five of us that were down there (me, a lifeguard, the dock supervisor, and the three boys) strutted over to the flag circle and started our day in awesome camp fashion. The boys had a little more swagger. 

That was my little group’s first hour of the day. 

All is well, safely rest. 

Thank you for sending your kid to Herzl Camp. 

‏לילה טוב

Tommy

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