One week of camp down, three to go! Here's a quick (stifles laughter) recap of last week:
Monday- The morning starts off excellently. Kids and staff are excited. 11:30 rolls around and lunch has yet to arrive. We rearrange the schedule to keep the kids busy while we wait for the city lunch to be dropped off. 1:00 rolls around and we have already moved the afternoon snack to give the kids whose, I have been informed by one six-year old, "stomachs are going to explode!" 1:30 comes... Still no lunch. 1:35, I find out that it isn't coming because they had the wrong address in the system. We invade McDonalds and get the kids Happy Meals. All is right with the world.
Tuesday- Starts off with an emergency meeting of the minds. I will spare you the details. Continues with a trip to Little Caesar's to get pizza for everyone since the city lunch program requires two days to fix the address problem. I call the bus company to ensure that all details are set for bus rental for field trip the following day and get a confirmation that all is right with the world.
Wednesday- Field trip day! The kids are in their classes and it's 10:05. We were scheduled to leave at 10:15. I get a call saying that, apparently, all is NOT right with the world and the bus is not, in fact, coming until we send a different type of payment form. Fast forward to 10:30 when, thankfully, all is once again right with the world and we are on our way to the park for a hike/scavenger hunt and swimming. No children drown or get left behind, but one child puts bathing suit on overtop of underwear and life nearly ceases as we know it when realizing it AFTER swimming.
Thursday- 5:30 PM I walk through the apartment door and announce, "Nothing went wrong today!"
Friday- Four new children from the community join in and it becomes apparent that the tone of camp is definitely going to shift a bit. But they are precious and we look forward to getting to know them.
Friday night- Storm.
Saturday- I get a call around 4:00 saying that power is out in the building and offices.
Sunday morning- Power is still out and we make the call that camp will be cancelled on Monday. Also, hello July. Where'd you come from??
Monday- No camp means I can finally go check out the final field trip destination (International Spy Museum in DC)! Deeeeefinitely a good thing that I did. During dinner, I find out the the power is STILL out at the building, and we make the call to do a half-day for tomorrow before it gets too hot. We call all of the parents and staff to inform them.
15 minutes later, our Director of Operations calls to tell me that the power is back on. Really. Really?
But overall, all is going well. The kids are a joy to be around and the staff is a ton of fun. I wonder what tomorrow will have in store...
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