Camp Simcha & Camp Simcha Special
Simcha Magic: Feel It In The Air!
Color War round #1 is off to a phenomenal start! The dining room this morning was bisected into blue’s moon walk and yellow’s sunshine arcade. Our two battling teams lost no time last night cutting out decorations and sticking colorful remnants all over the dining hall. Astronauts and various moons are storming the blue side of the room while pac-mans are buzzing about the yellow side. The tensions are mounting, the suspense climaxing as a Color Crazed Color War begins!
It’s official. War has been declared in Camp Simcha Special! The teams have been announced and all peace treaties denied. IT’S WAR! With Team Yellow-sun lead by Kaitlyn and Team Blue-moon lead by Ziva, our color crazed campers are up for a busy night of strategizing, decorating and lyrical song writing. All divisions have been given their respective assignments, some of which include decorating the dining room for breakfast with team colors, creating an everlasting banner and writing a bundle of cheers for tomorrow’s battle. Wishing all of our captains and their troops much luck in the upcoming color war series!
Get the microphones on, the cameras charged and crank the speakers up to highest volume because we are about to have the annual Camp Sincha Special Talent Show! 35 brave and talented souls have signed up to take the stage and floor us with their magnificent skills. First up on the schedule is Soul who will be singing a cover of “Let It Go” followed by the stupendous singing and dancing company composed entirely of bunk A2! Next up is Niya, offering some comical relief in a blow-up blueberry costume along with a handful of helpful volunteers to tell some jokes, pop a magic trick or two and get the audience geared up for the next act. We’ve booked Chaya Liba for a gymnastics performance stocked with cartwheels, splits, handstands and back-bends. Rosie will teach us some neat Tae kwon do moves armed with her orange belt, white uniform and a nunchaku chain-stick. Next will come a round with Abby on the guitar and finally Lana on the drawing board. A great big fistful of luck to all of our Camp Simcha Special superstars this afternoon, you continuously amaze us with your capabilities and talents.
Whoever you’ve been rooting for thus far, re-evaluate your loyalties because Camp Simcha Special orange day is finally here and our girls are basketball superstars this morning, sporting jerseys and worker men vests, we’ve even seen some orange clown fish! In addition to an NBA-style breakfast, many of our campers have also been signing up for the one and only, most spectacular Camp Simcha Special talent show this afternoon! We are looking forward ever so impatiently to uncovering every last hidden talent our girls have to offer. The day is a promising amalgamation of orange blends-
Until next time…
Sunday afternoon was a nostalgic mixture of dusty memories and new ones in the making as we browsed carnival booths and decorated green frosted cupcakes. Thank you so much to our alumni and their families for making the trip up to share an afternoon with us here at Camp Simcha Special. We pulled off a very successful alumni day carnival equipped with bouncy houses, basketball games, face painting stations and of course, in honor of green day, a slime booth! A post carnival cookout was definitely in order and many of our campers and alumni took the mic on the front lawn sharing their thanks and memories of so many Summers spent here at camp. We hope everyone has a safe trip home tonight and thank you for coming and sharing in the simcha with us!
Slime-Lime Lemonade served chilled with a side of…
Slimy Popcorn balls!
Enjoy!
Ever wonder what a bird’s eye view of Camp Simcha Special looks like? Our Simcha campers can tell you now that they’ve seen it all from the sky-high views of a…HELICOPTER! We’ve heard the propeller running all morning as we craned our necks to watch that copter tour the entirety of our Camp Simcha Special campus from the far ends of the basketball courts to the tallest trees of the front yard. After a tough-mudder run last Wednesday and helicopter rides this Sunday morning, our girls represent the bravest troopers on this side of Glen Spey!
Apparently the color green comes in many forms. From the warped slime labs of green-haired mad scientists to the peasant-like patchwork of robin hood’s do-gooder suite. Thick, goopy wads of slime trickled down the walls of our ghost busters headquarters this morning on a very green Simcha Special slime day! Plaid Irish skirts and stringy hula skirts are flocking the dining room along with our head counselors who are all clad in green aprons this morning dressed as Starbucks employees. We are anticipating a lot more surprises in various shades of green still to come.
Shabbat #1 in Camp Simcha Special was chock-full of bingo games, canteen chills and magic shows. From Friday night ball gowns to the Shabbat play after lunch and post twilight choir, there were no dull moments this weekend. Two campers shared their stories with us on the dining room deck and several choir soloist confirmed the rumor that talent definitely saturates the grounds and members of Simcha Special. The day finished off with a trademarked Simcha Special music bash and bucketloads of dancing. Wishing everyone a goodnight until next time…
It was epic.
It was momentous.
It was “8th DAY” in Camp Simcha Special! Despite the Friday scurrying, the loaded schedule and the bucketload of activities on the agenda, Simcha Special managed to pull off another phenomenal surprise event for our emoji festival. We danced it up, we cheered it on, and in short, we bumped up the yellow-infused happiness levels on every single Simcha face this afternoon! With a promising week up ahead, this is Camp Simcha Special signing off until next time. 😉
