MAFIA AGAIN?

them: "Let's play Mafia!"

me: "Mafia AGAIN?!"

them: "Ya, we like Mafia."

me: "Don't you know any other games?"

them: silence...

finally: "Let's play Stealth!"

me: "How do you play?"

them: "Everybody scatters and tries to make their way back to the campfire without being tagged."

me: "In the dark?"

them: "YA! It's really fun."

me: "no flashlights?"

them: "YA! You gotta get back and tag base without getting caught."

me: "What's base?"

them: "The campfire."

me: "You scatter around the campsite in the dark, run around tagging each other in the dark, and then you have to "TAG" the campfire?"

them: "Ya, well I guess we can't REALLY tag the campfire."

me: "Hhmmm. And I have to get up?"

them: "Well, you could be IT."

me: "Do I have to get up?"

them: silence...

them: "Let's just play MAFIA!"

BREAKFAST CONVERSATION...

David: "Hey Zach! You missed it last night! Your mom was such a dictator! We started calling her Hitler!"

Zach: "I didn't miss anything. I live with her."

Mom: "Now that's not fair. You know I always give you a choice:

1) do it

or 2) else"

YOU KNOW YOU ARE AT SUMMER CAMP WHEN...

• you're having lunch with 300 of your closest uniformed friends.
• silly people run around campfires doing silly skits.
• your butt touches the floor when you sit on your cot.
• you find yourself singing Fred the Moose for the 3rd time in 3 days.
• every afternoon you hear the sound of gun shots echoing around the hillsides, and no one's worried.
• Jay walks around the campfire at night in his pjs, barefoot.
• you're served red punch at every meal, including breakfast.
• the "Dining Hall" looks an awful lot like a "Big Top" tent.
• the SPL threatens to deck a kid and the counselor is ok with it.
• little kids think they know more about shotguns than the counselors.
• you're sitting around the campfire and Mr Adams is farting.

            (In my defense, it was "Taco Night", which included a large helping of Refried beans and I do recall

             saying "Excuse Me" !)

• you get into arguments with other kids about star wars, and which little kid TV show is best.
• you're surrounded by red-striped socks.
• everyone around you has gone 3 days without showering and the smell is overwhelming.

You know you're at a pretty darn good Summer Camp when...

• you get to use a toilet that flushes at some point during the day.
• you're not sleeping "down hill."
• you get a FRESH salad bar with both lunch and dinner EVERY NIGHT!

• you have your choice of water: fresh water, light water, low fat water, diet water, city water, well water, mountain water, spring water, zero water, I can't believe it's not water, spit, sweat or "other"
  
  

You know you're at a luxury Summer Camp when...

• the toilet comes with two mirrors and a HOT shower.
• there are no flies in the mess hall (there MUST be SOME camp like that SOMEwhere... I vote we book one of those as soon as we get back!) :)