giinibug, Cool/intermediates went out 2 weeks ago for me (back in Monday and Tuesday though) and based on the forecast, some more intermediates (paphs and phrags mostly) will go out this weekend. Probably wait a couple of weeks for the phals and vandaceous types. Bob

PJ good for you! I won a prize for archery too! But it was my 2nd year trying it - I remember that like I remember beginning this sentence...no really. I remember because my first year, I had absolutely the lowest score of all the boys, and I cried like a baby. The next year, I must have had a counselor who was a better coach. Or maybe God just gave me a steadier hand a year later, because I practically split the rear ends of my earlier arrows shot into the bull's eye with my later shots! (My big disappointment that 2nd year was looking and looking around among the boys, and not seeing another one crying like I did the year before! I knew there were a few that 2nd year who shot as poorly or worse than I did my 1st year. So I was mad that they either didn't care as much as I did, or they were better at hiding their pain. Those are the sorts of things that go through boys' minds, that cause them to grow while at camp.) Of course I was totally kidding around about camps not being for girls. But still! A "love smitten teenage boy trailing after you (instructor)"??!!! That's STALKING! I wouldn't send my girl to camp to learn how to handle THAT. Not even if I knew that boy and his parents beforehand and we had pre-arranged for him and my daughter to marry! I'd make sure she was a black belt in Tae Kwon Do before we sent her there. And I'd insist that she sleep wearing night vision goggles and a Bowie knife or a Taser (or two) strapped on. The only thing I can say, PJ, if you're gonna tell DW on me, is, she knows it ain't gonna do no good to make me sleep out in the heat, because I AM THE HEAT! I AM THE DEVIL, HAHAAAAAAAA!!!

As children we were sent to a Catholic camp, Camp Villa Marie in Savannah, Ga. on the river. My mother thought we needed this because there were no Catholic schools in south Georgia. Gayle, we also had mass at the crack of dawn and again at night. Also, religious classes twice a day. No, it wasn't fun. We stayed in cabins with huge screen windows, no air. The nuns would walk around at night to make sure we were all in beds. Seeing them in those black and white habits late at night looking through those screens, still gives me nightmares. DD2 begged to go to a camp with horse back riding. So we gave in and sent her to Merry Mac in Black Mountain, NC. It was not cheap! She wrote letters begging to come home after 3 days. After talking to the camp owners, we drove the 7 hours and got her. That was her first and last camp experience.

Hello just wondering if anyone will be camping in Texas this summer? Well my family will be going to Garner State Park, we love it there!! Please let me know of other great options for us that you might have come across. Sincerely, Girl