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Carnivals and Cook-Outs

July 3, 2016Leave a Comment

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!

Top of the Lunch Menu:

July 3, 2016Leave a Comment

Slime-Lime Lemonade served chilled with a side of…

Slimy Popcorn balls!

Enjoy!

“Around the World in a Single Day”

July 3, 2016Leave a Comment

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!

“Dragons and Soldiers and Frogs Oh My!”

July 3, 2016Leave a Comment

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.

The weekend Wrap-up

July 2, 2016Leave a Comment

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…

“Ladies and Gentleman, the Moment You’ve All Been Waiting For…”

July 1, 2016Leave a Comment

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. 😉

Emoji Gojis and the Theory of Happiness

July 1, 2016Leave a Comment

As it turns out, happiness comes in yellow pockets of fluff topped with red hearts and cartooned faces. And another thing, happiness is the color yellow and the sound of our campers bustling in the gym to bopping music by DJ Laykay. Emoji pillow-making was first up for morning activities along with emoji photo booths, emoji nail polish and tattoo stations-you name it, we’ve got it! Our girls are hard at work stuffing pillows, gluing smiles and cutting out hearts all before lunch on a Friday afternoon! Our first round of emoji volley ball is starting soon and the yellow pockets of happiness continues…

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One Million Smiles

July 1, 2016Leave a Comment

Emojis have been trending for a while now and finally, finally they’ve hit Camp Simcha Special! It was an emoji filled wonderland in the dining room this morning in honor of YELLOW EMOJI DAY and our campers caught on quickly. Indeed, we have seen nearly every emotionally-caricatured yellow-faced expression this side of the East Coast! Looking forward to a happy/exciting/surprising/animating/enthusing afternoon! 🙂 😉 🙂

Late Night P.S

June 30, 2016Leave a Comment

But wait, there’s more…

Just as we thought we had heard the last farewell echoes of our perfectly wonderful neon Thursday, our head staff members surprised us with a late night light-up bash! They thought of everything, from blazing streamers to neon cups and glowing face paint. Traces of music could be heard well into the night as all older divisions joined in on the dance floor. Night Activity-take two was a giant success. With face paint to wash off and totally gnarly costumes to put away, this is Camp Simcha Special signing off for the night…

Glow Sticks and Juggling Acts

June 30, 2016Leave a Comment

Down at Jacob’s Gym our campers joined in on some old style karaoke and glow-in-the-dark miniature golfing as part of our neon day soirée this afternoon. Optical illusions and tennis racket juggling was up next on the post dinner menu with Keith Leaf, The Amazing Fire Juggler! His first act included Aviva, one of our very own campers who assisted Keith, passing him a ball on command as he began to juggle. Chinese yo-yos and an Indian net that resembled an American pizza tosser, composed the foreign aspects of our show tonight. For one of his final acts, Keith presented his triple knife juggling rendition followed by a knife/tennis racket/plunger juggling bonanza! And finally, the moment we’d all been waiting for (drum roll please….) The Firing Act! With the lights dimmed and the music beating, Keith whipped out the glow-in-the-dark extra heavy equipment to wrap up our neon saturated day. Complex fire juggling simultaneously coupled with comical impressions seemed to be Keith’s specialty tonight as he blew out the last torch, heading a final hurrah to our neon Thursday! This is Camp Simcha Special singing off for the night and looking forward to our first weekend together!