Photo Journal: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 1:00PM

GATES OPEN:





Today was the one day of camp that we don't have crew campers (high school age kids who come for five weeks to help serve us) and it tends to show. In actuality, we are the only ones who notice the lack of help with luggage, making and serving dinner, and getting camp ready. For the parents and kids it is business as normal. We always say that the first 3-5 minutes have the potential to make or break a camper's experience, hence why we put so much energy towards setting up Mission to the Unknown on our half-mile road into the heart of camp and why we stress and expect such a high level of enthusiasm for our counselors when a Suburban full of kids arrives in the parking lot. Robots, space beat poems, and decorations are the standard operating procedure for Sunday afternoons!