Monday, September 24, 2018

We left a piece of us O'Neills at camp


Alex, one of our counselors this year, took this picture for us.  We made 2 stepping stones and brought them to camp for our final year.  This one Casey decided he wanted somewhere near the ropes course.  It makes a nice colorful addition on route to the course.

It's hard to tell what we were going for with our mosaics, but I'll tell you and then maybe you'll see it.  The O'Neills is written in what is a path that goes to a cabin.  Can you see the cabin???  And if you look really carefully, you can see the HH (Health & Happiness) on the cabin doorway, I guess it would be.  Somewhere I have a picture of the real HH tree that I will post.  Then to the left of the cabin is a campfire.  The campfire and camp songs always happen on the first night of the session, be it outside, or inside.  It's a special part of camp with songs, and light, s'mores and comaraderie and a promise of more fun to come.  Then the blue blob is Lake Vanere.  The lake is a beautiful part of camp where we have fished on and pontooned on and sailed many, many wish boats and sang camp songs.  There are many other special and important parts of camp, but the stone was only so big, haha.

The other stone we made we gave to Nurse Daureen.  She has been an important part of our camp time since the first year (or maybe second???).  Anyway, she is special and a good friend so we wanted her to have something tangible that she could have to remember us :)  She sent us pictures of it at her home which I will also have to dig up and post here.