Home Sweet Camp

MY HOUSE (camp view)

our little cabin in the woods :) (road view)

where i get all the wonderful letters you all send me :)

my road of Misery

down that path (in between the picnic table and the yellow awning is a path that leads down to waterfront, archery, and outpost.

this is the F I E L D and K I C K B A L L

volley ball court

teatherball and picnic tables

all the cabins are down this road

this is dogwood (aka craft shed), the b-ball court, and Maple (a cabin for the directors for the week.)

this is the dining hall

Hullitt Hall

the fire pit

the playground/hangout time before dinner

the camp office

home office

this is the hallway :)

this is our front porch

*my AWESOME room*

the living room

the kitchen with orange jello countertops!

ToRnAdO!

We had a tornado come through camp!!! Poor Grandma and Uncle Jim were here too. I had just got back from my last performance. Grandma had just finished saying that: "It looks like the Wizard of Oz sky!". Then over the radio Meghan says that there is a tornado warning for this area. So Mom turns on the news and lo and behold was a tornado warning for all the places that we had just drove through including our town. Then Grandma suggests that we head down cellar to the only basement in the camp. We were up and down from there, watching lightning and thunder, hail, and a transformer blowing up. Wowee wow wow. What a night!

Seuss and Convents and Basketball

Hey everyone out there! Guess what?!? The play is this upcoming Wednesday!!! It is wicked crazy!!! I just got my costume too. It is so totally AWESOME. I'll post a picture eventually.

Mom is at a worship conference which our pastor is going to as well at Drew University. She has never left us EVER. So it is really wierd not hearing her at 5:00 AM, awake making a cup of coffee. This worship conference is ok she said. So I guess she likes it. I'm sure I'll hear all about it when she comes home. Did I tell you that she is staying in a convent? Yup. It's her and the nuns. And she has the same room number as the room that she had at the Catholic university she went to for a couple years in collage. Wierd right??

Dad's out taking pictures of the basketball game here at camp. It's campers versus counselors. But it's a basketball camp, so I guess they are pretty good!! I can't wait to hear who wins.

theater camp

Ok. I am not the biggest fan of this camp right now. They gave all the parts to the people who have been apart of them forever. And the one girl who is a beginner like me, is not even in the age group of the program. One of the girls can't sing her way out of a paper bag, or dance, which is the main thing that she is supposed to be able to do. Other parts though are perfect. I got casted as a "Bird Girl" which I am happy about because it is a group of dancing girls... who most of which can't dance. But that's ok, I'll live with them.

Mom is having fun. She is doing an awesome job at worship at Church. Dad is somewhat enjoying his job. It is much better than the last two weeks which were really stressful for us. Things are brightening up :)

Well I have to mark up my script. TTYL

BIRTHDAY SHOUT OUT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MRS. SKELLY AND JAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know that it is late, but these are aaahhhh-maayyyyzing people, who are great people whose birthday was on the 4th of July!!!

Church

I love this church that we are going to :) It is so friendly, and everyone is a family there. They are mostly, well pretty much all older people, with only 2 kids in the Sunday School. There were about 15 people who showed up for the one service. Our pastor is named Betty, and she is a love. I guess it is normal for methodist pastors to preach at more than one church, which is what Pastor Betty does (2 churches). They had a party for us coming to their church today, and the fact that Pastor Betty is staying for another year. I had to sing the offeretory today, (thanks Mom), and now I am apparently part of their choir. We definately feel loved there <3. This one lady actually tried hooking me up with this one guy who is out of High School!!!!! Ah, no thanks and ew. But other than that I had a great time. Charolatte came too, because she didn't have any other church to go to, so she came with us. She is a staff worker here, and came all the way from Colorado. I just found out that she plays the bassoon!! Camp is coming in about 2 hours :) Oh yeah, and the person for the "Hair, Nails, Beach, and Bible" camp decided not to come, so now Mom and I are in charge of that camp as well. Did I mention that it is the same week????????

HAPPY 4th!!!!

Today is the 4th of July!! :) There is going to be a huge fireworks display at Fort Dix tonight!! I hope you are all going to the display in Wolfeboro!! Last year they asked my mom to play the bass drum, and she still can't stop talking about it!! Mom also made blueberry buckle this morning!! I can't wait to eat it!! The inner-city campers are leaving today, and the Jr camp, mom and I are directing starts tomarrow. I am so excited!!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!

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Canadian Geese

Today, Dad had to go to bring a screen to the camp offices which is about 1 1/2- 2 hours away. Mom of course wanted to see the ocean. So as soon as we were done there, he drove us to see the salty waves crash against the rocks. Now we are no where near Canada, as most of you know, but there is one thing of theirs that is very popular here... Canadian Geese. They are EVERYWHERE!!! They even have a chain gas station named after them called "WaWa". We were driving when all of a sudden there are all these cars stopped, when we finally see what all the comotion was about. The geese were in the road. Tons of them just scattered everywhere. We got so close to them that you could actually reach your hand out the window and touch them. They wouldn't budge either. That everything was all about them, so Dad wound up driving around everybody.

That's not all. Yesterday mom and I went blueberry picking and oh boy!!!!!! THESE THINGS ARE HUGE!! They are no doubt about it, larger than grapes. I am dead serious. And they taste AH-MAYZING. The owners gave you buckets, (big ones) that you would tie around your waste and pick as many as you want. They were sold by the pound. We Goodwins now have WAY too many blueberries, so we froze most of them and are going to try to eat as much as we can, and maybe give some to Gene and Maggie at the office :) Haha!! Look how big these are!!

SOS

Hey everybody!! Mom and I need help!! We were asked to be the directors of Jr Camp, and we need IDEAS!! You know my email, so email me if you have an idea please!! Thanks!!

xoxo
Lisa and Haley

A Wild Day

Today, my mom and I went to have a meeting with the vice principal of our new school. We were very exciting, I was going to be tested, and Mom was going to check out her new room. But neither of us were expecting "a little shower". This shower wound up being a GEGUNDA thunder storm. We had no clue where we were going, and could hardly see anything during the downpour. We used "Bradley", our beloved TOMTOM (GPS navigator) to get us there, hoping that it would not be struck by the huge bolts which lit up the sky. Finally we made it there, and had a lovely vist...



The vice principal recomended a lovely bookstore down the street aways, and we thought that we should get the required summer reading. We never found the bookstore, but instead we wound up in Ghetto-land city area where the Hicitic Jew population lives. We were told by a friend of ours that if you were to step toe into this neighborhood, your car would be pounded with rocks... Well I am toe-heads, as blonde as they come, so I put my hood up and scrouched down. I was soooooooooooo scared!! Finally "Bradley" got us home, where we are snuggling under the comfort of our beds.