Today was all about food. Giant food. The dining room’s makeover today included giant food hanging above our heads, and even a massive webpage with weather predictions including clouds and meatballs!

Next it was time for a spaghetti hunt. We ran around camp, searching all over for spaghetti-string. Once we collected all the pieces, we tied them together, forming a massive rope that surrounded the whole camp!

With Avrumie’s division, the Heroes, collecting the most spaghetti, they won a special, foody prize: a food fight, with tonnes of spaghetti in a paddling pool!

After lunch, we had had food designing contest. With cupcake decorating and sushi making as the official aim, somehow most of the icing kinda missed the cupcakes, and ended up as makeup on everyone’s faces. No idea how THAT happened. None at all…

To round off the day, we had Steve Max, professional Simon Says Leader! His quick tricks, funny challenges and witty commentary had us rolling with laughter!

Good night, see you tomorrow at Bike4Chai!

Welcome to our first full day inthe happiest place in the world!

Our first breakfast of Camp Simcha Special 2014 set the tone for what was to come. The staging area was transformed into a magnificent castle, with silver walls over 10 feet tall, massive arched opening and even a gas lantern over its entrance!

The dancing seemed like it would never stop! By each meal, we seem to reach new heights in energy!

Today we got to check out all the amazing workshops in camp. Between pottery, rocketry, candle making and a whole lot more, we barely had a moment to rest! Add to that lunch, with the customary dancing (you’re starting to see a pattern here, aren’t you?) and swimming, speed boating and meetings, you can see why we needed a boost of fuel for our energy in the afternoon, which we got from Camp Simcha’s very own Ice Cream Golf Truck!

Supper, with its craziness, was cut a little short with a fire drill. With all the fun, safety is always the top priority.

With nightfall came a special show, with a pack of dogs showing off their speed and agility; they jumped through hoops, over obstacles and then really blew our minds away with their ability to catch disks and frisbees being thrown at them from all directions!

Time to head to bed; we need to rest up for another day to come over camp!

Camp Simcha Special 2014 has officially begun!

Our world-famous welcome just got majorly upgraded, with inflatable tunnels, fog machines and our in-house DJ at the deck!

As each camper arrived, they went through the tunnel, exiting in a cloud of fog to a line of cheering counsellors, all dressed in the wildest costumes.

With this year’s theme of Simcha Tales, the stage, dining room and staff are all decked out with fairy tale stairs, super-sized books hanging from the ceilings and costumes from all genres: Supermen, kings and even some giant food!

The dancing just went on and on, non-stop, for hours!

If you thought that was enough, and we’d just relax, unpack and go to sleep, this is obviously your first time here; the fun never stops! Supper somehow just transformed into one long dance scene, over an hour long, stopping only when the next event started: Jeopardy!

Our game show hosts, Tzvi and Yaakov, made sure the day lasted on a high, with EphShap on the controls, keeping us guessing with crazy questions, trick answers and confusing scores!

See ya all tomorrow!

Arrivals day in full swing, with our welcome dance led by our epic head counselour, DEMBI!

The staff training weekend is drawing to a close, as we kit up, hype up and set up for an amazing two weeks of camp.

With speeches from doctors, division meetings and time to chill together and get to know the rest of our incredible team, everything is ready. Staff stayed up through the night, putting in the finishing touches. Now all we need are the campers…

Our campers love getting e-mail! To send your camper an e-mail, include his 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 zahavah@campsimcha.org

As the session begins, we would like to clarify some things about our Facebook galleries, public galleries on our website, and ParentSpace galleries.

If your child is photo-released “in camp only,” he will only appear in the ParentSpace gallery. Your child will not appear on Facebook, nor on the public side of the site. So if your child is a camper, go ahead and sign up for ParentSpace by clicking “REGISTER” at the top right corner of this page. Not only will you see more pictures (2x more pictures than on FB), but you will also be privy to ParentSpace 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 zahavah@campsimcha.org