The Bruin Boy Bunch

Visitors Day at Camp Ramah

It was a great drive up, the weather was wonderful and I know that I speak for all of us when I say that we were very excited to see Ashleigh... and it was nice to know that she was excited to see us also.

First and most important after the hugs and "Ohhh my God I am so glad to see you" were the slurpeees that we picked up with the Lorch car (our caravan companions) in Oxnard because that was the last 7-11 before Ojai. And for the record if you put the slurpee in a plastic cup and then pack it in ice it will last a pretty long time...however after they were given to Ash and Stacy they didn't last long at all.



We had a wonderful lunch with Ash and while we were there Celia called she and Sean were about 4 hours away from Leslie’s house in Portland. Ash tried to talk to her but Ramah is not known for its cell phone reception.

What is visitors day... while we were driving up I was saying that it was a Bad Idea... here we go (parents, grand parents, siblings, friends) just 10 days before they come home, up to camp to disrupt the sessions. Kids who might have been homesick were over it and now they are seeing their parents again this is not good. And if you decided not to go up then your kid was the only one without parents and no one to bring them the good food that they were not getting at camp (just for the record we brought: Greek salad, pita and dips, goldfish, crackerjacks, gushers, Arizona tea, soda, spinach artichoke dip and various chips).

What I realized was this day was not for the campers it was for the counselors and not that they should have the day off but so their friends could come and visit them. How do I know this well first I brought one of the visiting friends with us in our car, no not Sam she did come to see her sister ... even though she disappeared from time to time with some of her people. But we also had Jason D in the car with us and on the bus up to camp however once we got up there he was gone. He had people to see and counselors to hug.

Now I have to admit I did enjoy the day. I had really been missing Ashleigh even though it did give us a chance to really clean her room without her saying that she wanted to keep everything. But it is just not the same around the house without her humor and smile. Besides she got to show us some of her art work and her tent. We had a chance to meet her counselors. She has some really great counselors this year one of them was on Nativ last year so it was good for Ash to hear first hand about the stuff that Sam will be doing soon.