50 mg of lopressor at night again//memories of resort camp//camp search for a
still looking for summer camps for a for this summer, cutting it very close. its making me remember the camps i attended. FIVE for overnight and two for day camp...may even be more of the daycamp that i'm forgetting. lol. rustic daycamp was first; then overnight camp (five of these - all different, resort, scouting, leadership, rv camping and fusion). if you count the day camp they have set up behind elementary schools.
i used to go to overnight camp for a month as a kid. i thought of this because only overnight camp was for a month and the rest of them were for a week each - different times of the year. (the article i read for a, says that two weeks is the minimum amount of time to send a child to camp, because one week is too short a time to make friends and grow from it. (it will have the opposite affect if not done properly. hmmmm. been wrong every single year then because the packages are sold as 3 days or one week. so i'm searching for something longer and i found TWO that are affordable so far. yay)!
"resort" camp that i went to for only a week each year, when i was young, i attended at the end of the summer when our parents took their vacation at a mountain resort - was just one week - it was the first one i thought of when the article said one week isn't enough.
resort camp was a camp for kids staying at the resort, it was still part of the resort, up in the catskill mountains (like the resort they show on the movie, dirty dancing). during the day the kids have optional camp and the parents have optional activities on their own without the kids, at night the parents dine in a dining room and the kids dine separate and there is kid food for the kids and just ONE main entre that is the same as one of the choices in the parent dining room [the kid food is more fun, especially for the little ones (mac and cheese, spagetti, burgers, hot dogs, french fries are always available buffet style) and then the real entre with sides (which me and my friends were told to ALWAYS order and use the other options as snacks)]. their food was good and no one watched what you did. lots of freedom. its camp and its a resort and you are on vacation.
when you are a teen, you are taught manners (its a flier) at the resort, and are given a separate table in the larger dining room with a zillion forks etc., order from a menu, with waiters there waiting and you stare at the others at your table making quiet faces. its fun too. lol. and whisper how you think things should go. no one really knows any of this stuff at 13, so its hilarious.
on friday night, you dress up and the teens are given a table in the nightclub, in a back corner high up where you can see everything like the stage etc., (and of course the adults can also SEE you. lol.), in the earlier hours of nightclub night. FRIDAY is the only night that the young teens can go in there, all other nights the bouncers bounce you out. on friday, you can watch the show and dance on the dance floor. this part was GREAT! we would all ask our parents for champagne and then collect it in one HUGE cup in the middle of the table (the parents would forget if they gave you one and both parents would sneak you drinks without telling the other parent, or get them off a tray that a waiter forgot. lol.) and then drink until we all got sick, laughing about everything and nothing. omg!
the older teens often didn't sit with the younger teens at dinner or at nightclub because they were "so mature." and we of course, were not. lol. we didn't care anyway and being drunk we would find interesting places to hang out at the resort like under these huge stairwells, on different floors, that NO ONE uses because there are elevators. at 13 you are still basically a kid. at 14 and 15 you are as well, actually. lol. we had a great time.
so i'll know after this summer which is better for a. its not a fair comparison. i feel like if its not broke don't fix it. she went to the christian camp for three years and enjoyed it. i may end up paying for a longer stay for her somewhere and she may end up at a camp she hates?!
i'm back on 50 mg of lopressor at night in addition to day. my blood pressure kept going up. the doctor says to me, well, its a little high...because at 50 at night before i had too many side effects and it went too low. haven't tested it yet. but i feel better.
i used to go to overnight camp for a month as a kid. i thought of this because only overnight camp was for a month and the rest of them were for a week each - different times of the year. (the article i read for a, says that two weeks is the minimum amount of time to send a child to camp, because one week is too short a time to make friends and grow from it. (it will have the opposite affect if not done properly. hmmmm. been wrong every single year then because the packages are sold as 3 days or one week. so i'm searching for something longer and i found TWO that are affordable so far. yay)!
"resort" camp that i went to for only a week each year, when i was young, i attended at the end of the summer when our parents took their vacation at a mountain resort - was just one week - it was the first one i thought of when the article said one week isn't enough.
resort camp was a camp for kids staying at the resort, it was still part of the resort, up in the catskill mountains (like the resort they show on the movie, dirty dancing). during the day the kids have optional camp and the parents have optional activities on their own without the kids, at night the parents dine in a dining room and the kids dine separate and there is kid food for the kids and just ONE main entre that is the same as one of the choices in the parent dining room [the kid food is more fun, especially for the little ones (mac and cheese, spagetti, burgers, hot dogs, french fries are always available buffet style) and then the real entre with sides (which me and my friends were told to ALWAYS order and use the other options as snacks)]. their food was good and no one watched what you did. lots of freedom. its camp and its a resort and you are on vacation.
when you are a teen, you are taught manners (its a flier) at the resort, and are given a separate table in the larger dining room with a zillion forks etc., order from a menu, with waiters there waiting and you stare at the others at your table making quiet faces. its fun too. lol. and whisper how you think things should go. no one really knows any of this stuff at 13, so its hilarious.
on friday night, you dress up and the teens are given a table in the nightclub, in a back corner high up where you can see everything like the stage etc., (and of course the adults can also SEE you. lol.), in the earlier hours of nightclub night. FRIDAY is the only night that the young teens can go in there, all other nights the bouncers bounce you out. on friday, you can watch the show and dance on the dance floor. this part was GREAT! we would all ask our parents for champagne and then collect it in one HUGE cup in the middle of the table (the parents would forget if they gave you one and both parents would sneak you drinks without telling the other parent, or get them off a tray that a waiter forgot. lol.) and then drink until we all got sick, laughing about everything and nothing. omg!
the older teens often didn't sit with the younger teens at dinner or at nightclub because they were "so mature." and we of course, were not. lol. we didn't care anyway and being drunk we would find interesting places to hang out at the resort like under these huge stairwells, on different floors, that NO ONE uses because there are elevators. at 13 you are still basically a kid. at 14 and 15 you are as well, actually. lol. we had a great time.
so i'll know after this summer which is better for a. its not a fair comparison. i feel like if its not broke don't fix it. she went to the christian camp for three years and enjoyed it. i may end up paying for a longer stay for her somewhere and she may end up at a camp she hates?!
i'm back on 50 mg of lopressor at night in addition to day. my blood pressure kept going up. the doctor says to me, well, its a little high...because at 50 at night before i had too many side effects and it went too low. haven't tested it yet. but i feel better.
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It is so important to keep your BP under control, good luck with the quest for a summer camp. Love U Kiddo.
I loved camp I made lots of friends their.
resort camp was one of my favorites, especially the years in the real dining room. i was also lucky because i liked the people i was with and they liked me and were thrilled when i showed up at the nightclub (i was the youngest one, plus the evil older step was always making trouble so there was no way to tell if i would get there, or even get a message from my friends -- younger stepbrother wasn\'t much better with giving me messages).
yeah, i always signed up for all the camping stuff, anytime it came up. i don\'t know how kids learn independence if they don\'t go away on their own...but anything can be bad too, so i guess people are cautious or just plain scared. its not money, because the girlscout stuff was free and half of them never showed up even if they signed up - as amazing as that is. but half seems to be the rule of thumb with everything.
you hear all kinds of things. depends on who you are with, just like everything in life really.