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Starting off Yellow Day with a Bang

July 29, 2016Leave a Comment

Pikachus, and bananas are running wild. Emojis are everywhere. And, be care to not run into a stray Big Bird. That’s right, its Yellow Day in Camp Simcha Special, and #ColorCraze16 has officially begun!

We had a surprise visitor this morning who really rocked the house. Lipa Schmeltzer was here and he put on a great show. Together with the amazing Camp Simcha Band, he had all of us dancing, jumping, and sweating. You just can’t help but smile from the tangible energy, and pumping music, coupled with Lipa’s fun personality. All of this and it is only noontime. I can’t wait to see what other fun this day will bring.

Visitors from France

July 28, 2016Leave a Comment

Tonight Camp Simcha Special was invaded by the French. The Twins from France that is! This duo put on a terrific show for the whole camp. They flipped, tricked, and gimmicked all over the gym, and it was awesome! Their funny style of entertainment had us all laughing the whole time. I got pretty nervous when they started juggling the fire, and swords though. One of them even swallowed a whole sword! They got our amazing campers involved as well. They got a chance to throw the juggling balls, try to blow out a blazing torch, and even got flipped by the twins too. What a great finish to an action packed first day of camp! I can’t wait to see what is in store for tomorrow.

Out on the Water

July 28, 2016Leave a Comment

After a morning packed with dancing, who doesn’t want a chance to cool down in the water? If you have the need for speed, then a ride on the newly upholstered speedboat is perfect for you. Looking for something a little more relaxed, perhaps the brand new bumper boats are more your style. Kayaks are also an excellent choice. There is so much to do at the lake, that it is nearly impossible to be bored.

Arrivals!

July 28, 2016Leave a Comment

Welcome to Camp Simcha Special Boys Session 2016! We opened up camp with a bang with the arrivals. Each camper was welcomed into camp with his very own tunnel made up of hundreds of energetic and excited staff members itching to meet everyone. DJ Jon was blasting incredible beats for hours upon hours, and the energy was unstoppable. #ColorCraze16 is moving at full force, and we can’t wait to see what comes next!

About ParentSpace and our Galleries

July 26, 2016Leave a Comment

If your child is a camper, go ahead and sign up for ParentSpace by clicking “REGISTER” at the top right corner of this page.

ParentSpace galleries have more pictures than our Facebook galleries and public galleries as well as exclusive videos, a special blog, the daily camp newsletter, camp schedule, and more!

Please note: it may take a couple of hours for your account to be activated, giving us time to confirm who you are. When your account is activated, you will be notified by email.

If you have any questions, comments, requests, or suggestions for our site, please contact webmaster@campsimcha.org

E-mail your Camper!

July 26, 2016Leave a Comment

Our campers love getting e-mail! To send your camper an e-mail, include his/her NAME and BUNK NUMBER in the subject line of the e-mail. Please send all e-mails to mail@campsimcha.org. Unfortunately, we cannot download any attachments so please include all content in the body of your e-mail.

For technical assistance, please e-mail webmaster@campsimcha.org

The Final Hoorah!

July 26, 2016Leave a Comment

Breakfast was a blur this Tuesday morning with the first of the busses set to pull out soon and last-minute hugs being doled out. These past two weeks were composed of the longest moments, and yet they struck by so fast that here we are on the last morning pondering the impossibilities of time. Because camp moments are the kind that you try to re-live a thousand times over, but in real time, they were moving and loud and only moments long.

So, while another Camp Simcha Summer ends, the countdown till Simcha 2017 automatically begins again.

In 3…2…1…..

Setting Monday to the Sound of Music

July 25, 2016Leave a Comment

The magician’s stage has been overtaken by the one, the only SIMCHA LEINER!!! While impatient good byes lurk in the shadows, we are fighting off the “last day” blues with concert craziness and Monday night magic. Once again, and for the last time this session, our girls are hitting the dance floor hard and making it count.

A Final Wave of Magic…

July 25, 2016Leave a Comment

Tables caped in black, layers of cards decked out, only to be matched by red spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds centering each table, that was the dining room decor tonight in honor of our very last magician’s dinner here in Camp Simcha. Our banquet was transformed by the lingering sense that this was almost “Goodbye Time,” but Simcha knows how to put up excellent distractions. With a concert scheduled for later on tonight and fireworks by the lake at midnight, there might just be a wedge of time tomorrow morning for goodbyes…but for now, we are just letting one final wave of Simcha magic wash over us…

A Hand for Our Staff Members

July 25, 2016Leave a Comment

Our Great Big Thank You Ceremony is underway as we share our appreciation for the greatest, most incredibly committed staff of any camp in the East! From the counselors who accompanied each of our girls through every special activity, artistic workshop and moment by moment memory made up of color-crazed paint dabs and the stirrings of mid-day helicopter propellers, to the specialty staff complete with lifeguards, waitresses and workshop aids. A round of applause for our media staff, snapping photos and working all session to produce a memory laden video capturing every day flash-backs of the summer. Last, but certainly not least, our wonderful head staff deserves the greatest Jumbo-Sized Simcha Thank You ever! Their planning, scheduling, organizing and then rescheduling in the face of rainstorms and other most wonderful surprises, is what makes our head staff the most valuable Camp Simcha asset.

After a Thank You Ceremony topped with cheering and musical introductions, our campers relived some of their past two weeks of Color-Crazed madness watching the camp video put together by our Media Staff (Thanks again guys!) and then it’s on to banquet, a last festive farewell before the goodbye waterworks really kick in…