Monday, June 27, 2005

Sunday was a long day in the car. The four of us were packed in with a long 13 hour drive ahead of us. We left around 9 and soon after stopped at cracker barrel to gorge ourselves. Minutes later, we were stuck in two hours of traffic at a standstill as an overturned semi was hauled off the road. We drove a long, long ways, and around 9PM, I met up with Ken Buck and he took me the rest of the way to camp. I got to camp around 10PM and got a chance to see a bunch of people that I only see one week a year, but about 18 hours a day for that week, which causes a fair amount of bonding after 9 years. We spent last night and tonight getting the rooms situated and getting the fans mounted in the rooms for optimal cooling power. Any way you cut it, it's hot and humid here. You can't walk down the stairs without breaking a sweat. We went on a Walmart run this morning and picked up the necessities and then headed over to the dollar store to do the real shopping. The Dolla Tree store out here is the best dollar store ever. We picked up an item for each kid in our group, which they in turn have to carry around for the entire week. If they're caught without the item, some kind of dire consequence applies - like singing "I'm a little teapot" in front of a large group of people. The items range from dolls, to pieces of articifical fruit and sock puppets. The kids get here around 3. I'm taking a nap right now to get rested up.

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