Good morning ladies and gentlemen. The date today is July 4, 1773. Yes, you read that right-1773. Today in CSS we went back in time. We had colonial waitresses serving us an outdoor breakfast. Campers and counselors were dressed in bonnets and long dresses. We even had an old fashioned fair complete with pie making, spinning wheels, and soap making! But I’m getting ahead of myself. I’ll tell you about that in a minute…
Our week started off once again with a ballet class for our early risers. Breakfast today was quite a treat! Our waitresses dressed up in their 18th century garb and served us porridge. After breakfast, we had some fun workshops including one in which campers baked American flag cakes to celebrate America’s 234th birthday! After pottery, mosaics, swim, leather, ropes course, boating, baking and scrap-booking, it was time for lunch.
Following lunch, Miriam, Rachel, Gabriella, Molly, Sari and Chaya Brocha took turns singing America’s national anthem. After the professional singing from our campers, we had some other professionals sing for us: Eli and Yaakov Mordechai Gerstner! As usual, staff and campers rocked, jumped, twisted, and spun to the music making our second concert at CSS another huge success!
After our concert we travelled back in time yet again to experience a colonial fair. Campers were able to choose from a variety of booths including candle-making, candy apple-baking, basket weaving, wood carving, pail engraving, pie making, sewing, and soap making! Some campers even got to learn how to pump water by hand which is a skill that everyone in the 21st century really should know.
In addition to the fair, we had a petting zoo come to our basketball field! We had horseback riding and a monkey show. We were also able to look at (and touch, for those of us who wanted to…) turtles, rabbits and snakes. Rachel held the rabbits and Elana ran around with the snake.
After dinner, campers and counselors were able to dress up in old fashioned outfits and our professional photographers took pictures of them set against a vintage background. Then, we headed to the gym for our night activity. Tonight’s night activity was a competition in which we pitted the head staff against each other! Reuven and Michael Vatch had to diaper stuffed bears and make Jelly ‘n Fluff sandwiches. Our nurses had to carry eggs across the gym. The nurses at CSS are so precise, accurate, and talented that they had to do it three times until any of them got out! The DH’s had to put makeup on each other blindfolded. They were quite a sight to see! After the competition, we had a lantern tour around CSS while our guide told us stories about the olden days. And now we’re back to the 21st century and awaiting tomorrow and the future fun we’ll have in CSS. I’ll keep you updated tomorrow… Have a great night!