Friday, August 27th--LAST DAY!

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Last day of camp. It’s been a wild ride. Today’s theme was masquerade so we sent her to camp wearing her mardis-gras style mask from Grandpa Abe (from AC I think). Surprisingly, she managed to wear it for some of the day and it also made it home. Success!

In Arts & Crafts in the morning Alex made a mask (sticking with the theme), and left it there. Oh well. There must be a very large graveyard for discarded or forgotten camp art projects. They could probably do a pretty cool installation of that stuff. Maybe next summer!

Alex said that at Carnival she had a snow cone and cotton candy. Her favorites! She was very excited. She also went nuts on the bouncy castle. Also one of her faves.

When Jeff got there one of her friends saw him and said Alex was still on the trampoline. She showed up ten or so minutes later (!), with a painted face (even in the eyes!) eating a cereal bar.

Camp casualties (from and after day 1): First Day: Painted sun hat (lost) and hello kitty sunglasses (trampled). Last Day: Pink Pig Towel. So sad. We love that towel. But when you think about it, that’s really not too bad!
There were lots of goodbyes and hugs for Alex from counselors and friends.

They went on a wild goose chase looking for the towel at the end of camp. Across the street, into the pool complex…. Everyone knew Alex there but nobody had seen the towel. Then they went to the Health Center to retrieve her EpiPen. Not there. Turns out medications had already been sent back across the street. Back across the street. Jeff said he couldn’t believe how many EpiPens were in this box. Let's call it more than 10. Alas, sign of the times.

On her last day, in the morning, Alex claimed that she was her own sister “Katie”. She made us play along all morning and demanded that we tell her counselors that. Jeff really thought that she would forget about it before she even got to camp. She didn't. She stuck with it all day. She even fleshed out the back story. I heard, through the grapevine, that she was Alexandra's older sister Katie, is 7 years old and was entering 2nd grade. The counselors and campers all played along. Gotta love it.

We also found out about another kid in Alex’s kindergarten class. It's G. Of course, it is.

Thursday, August 26th

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When Jeff showed up Alex was wearing her bathing suit and shorts and was carrying an apple. She dropped it, her counselor washed it for her, and she ate about half of it. Surprising. Her other counselor said Pool was good, but there really weren't any details.

We didn't hear anything about Tom's Trail. But for Water Adventure, the ‘Swamp’ was finally high enough for them to go out in the boats. For Mini Adventure, they did outdoor cooking. Sausage and Eggs. Alex did not take part. L

She left her pink pig towel at camp. A whole summer of not losing towels, and she has to lose the good one on the second to last day. At pick-up time she was wearing her bathing suit and if her bathing suit had been in the bag, Jeff would have noticed it at camp and maybe could have retrieved it. We are not hopeful that it will be found tomorrow. Oh well. Another camp casualty. Tomorrow is her last day. Hard to believe!