This morning, it felt like we walked through a time machine! Oh, wait. There actually is a time machine in our dining room! Firstly, the stage is decorated with heavy shipping ropes, nets, and broken barrels. It looks like it just got pulled out of an old shipwreck. Next, there is an actual teepee in middle of the floor which we are able to climb into and out of. Tons of campers and staff members are running around with bongos and feathery Indian Chief hats like a bunch of American Indians. It felt like we went back five hundred years. Some people wore colonial American costumes with all the works: toupe`, hat, outfit, etc.
A highlight of the props is a huge time machine sitting in middle of the dining room floor. Now, don’t get me wrong, it will actually send you back in time!! Try it as you may, its exterior is built with wooden boards to mock iron sheets bolted together and has pipes and tubes coming out from all over. Upon walking inside, you will be astonished to find yourself sitting in middle of a man-to-man combat war in middle of the 1600’s!! It’s dark inside with light coming from only a green web-light and blue tree light. It is equipped with a large mixing board with working buttons, a sound system, and most of all, a screen playing native/colonial American scenes. An additional, much larger screen is atop the craft playing the same scenes for everyone else to see. The entire craft was built right here in camp, and everyone appreciates the hard work which went into building it.
The camp is now in the Social Hall for some theme activities and awaiting a surprise. I’ll definitely keep you posted on what it is…