Cara, “Together we collected over a thousand spaghetti strings! It was so much fun!”
Cloudy with a Chance of Smiles
Today’s forecast is cloudy with a chance (a very, very big chance) of fun, excitement, joy, and giggles!!! Hamburgers, hot dogs, tacos, sandwiches, ice cream sundaes, tomatoes, carrots, grapes, M&Ms, chocolate bars, and more have fallen from the sky into our very own Camp Simcha! You guessed it…Today’s theme is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs!!! “It’s peanut butter jelly time…” is the melody we heard as we ate a joyous breakfast together.
Spaghetti hunt!!! We all ran outside with huge smiles on our faces to gather as much spaghetti as we could carry. With our large spaghetti piles in hand, each division ran back to the gym to try to make the longest spaghetti string! The Ninja Turtles won!!! The entire gym exploded in cheers. The delight kept on growing as the campers found out that they won night swim and a movie by the pool!
It makes us hungry to just look around and see all of the food surrounding us…Time for lunch!!!
Fabulous Foodies in Simcha
Between activities campers picked candy that was hanging from a tree. In sweet shoppe, campers made faux meatballs, spaghetti and chicken. Faigy G. said that the meatballs she made in sweet shoppe were really tasty, but not as tasty as the ones her mom made.
Then campers gathered in the dining room for a fabulous food expo. There was mint archery; campers aimed and shot mints into their counselors gaping mouths. There was fruit carving where campers carved fruit to resemble human faces. Some campers decorated napkin rings and salad servers using a wide selection of beautiful glass beads and wires while others eagerly decorated muffins using every candy imaginable. Junior sushi chefs worked diligently at one station creating tasty rolls. It was quite a delicious activity.
Appropriately scrumptious meatballs and spaghetti were served for supper.
It’s Raining Meatballs!
The weather forecast is in – be warned of the falling meatballs today! We’ve entered a portal into another one of our favorite childhood books/movie: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. The Dining Hall is stocked with the most delicious (rather enlarged) food – on the stage, hanging from the ceiling, and there is food roaming around campus as well. Campers and staff are dressed like food, and division heads are dressed as clouds. (While we did get hungry from all this food, you needn’t worry, this morning we had an especially delicious breakfast of french toast and scrambled eggs.)
We are also celebrating Canada Day in camp. Our native Canadians, many decked out in red and white, sang the national anthem at breakfast. Appropriately, we had maple syrup available for french toast during breakfast.
For second activity, the entire camp gathered on the deck of the Dining Hall for a Meatball and Spaghetti Hunt. At the count of 3, all were released onto campus to gather the scattered spaghetti (string) and meatballs (pom-poms). With all the string and pom-poms gathered, the divisions each sat together in the gym and created the ultimate meatball and spaghetti dish. We tied the strings together to make long strings which stretched cross the length of the gym! It was an especially fun activity, as we held and measured the strings which zigzagged across the large gym.
