Newsflash.... the boy likes summer camp. Well, summer day camp run by the fab adult school in the town we live in. His schedule, which he helped select, consists of fencing, good books/good times, computers, mosaics and karate. He is loving karate and fencing - and happily models fencing and karate moves each night. He is also all about a good book - and happily told me about a polar bear who eats ice cream, and disclosed that they all got dixie cups of ice cream in class. What's not to love?
The end of camp. That's what not to love. This doesn't mean that camps are over for the summer. It means the patchwork activities have begun. He'll travel out of state with his cousin to visit grandparents. Said grandparents are sending the kids to zoo camp. That's right - the zoo hosts a day camp from 9 - mid afternoon. Said kids go together, play in the zoo and then get picked up. By 5 they'll be in the pool. By 6:30, eating dinner, and by 8:30 back to bed for another round of meaningful dream preparation for the next day.
Oh - and the next week he's off to museum camp. I don't think it's going to go so well - but we'll see. It's called harness the wind - and it's all about kites, mobiles, wind chimes and art work. They will get to actually turn on the fan that moves the calder sculpture - which might be interesting. I fear the week won't go so well...but we'll see. Anything can look better with air conditioning.
After that week, a repeat of last summer's favorite activity - the Bronx Zoo day camp. A terrible commute - but he's so happy he doesn't even complain when we are on an unairconditioned subway for 50 minutes - and that's just to get to midtown. Wow.
Summer's here. Camp is fun. And the beer is cold. Sweet.
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