Well once again thanks to all the parents who helped make Visiting Day a huge success.

Once all the parents and friends left the camp grounds I called the captains of the olympic teams up to get the ball rolling on starting the 2008 college olympics.

The team names and captains for this year are:

Central State Chippewas (YELLOW)

Madison Armston, Tori Bezoza, Brian Lagrua and Jessie Toder

Evergreen State Geoducks (GREEN)

Robin Greenberg, Lexie Grossman, Brian Beck, Ari Brenner

Louisiana Lafayette Rajin Cajun’s (RED)

Jamie Passet, Emily Scoular, Michael Farber, Jeremy Kaye

Utah State Aggies (BLUE)

Dylan Joskowitz, Chloe Zung, Omri Saadi and Sam Weinberg

The captains were excited to get their shirts and folders with the list of events. All around camp you saw painted faces, bodies, hair in different colors. One counselor Breezy could easily be mistaken for Mystique from the X-Men as she was painted totally in Blue. It was awesome to see all of the older kids helping the younger ones spray paint their hair, get clothes in the right colors and paint their faces. I honestly believe there is probably nothing left in Middletown in the colors of blue, red, yellow or green. It is all at Camp Lakota.

As has become our tradition Unique Entertainment opened up the Olympic Event Sunday Night. Unique is a game show where the four teams compete by answering audio questions, video questions and other bonus questions. There are physical challenges and entire camp sing alongs. This is always one of the most popular events of the year. In fact the Unique guys told me this is one of their favorite places to play the activity because the campers and counselors are so involved and go crazy during the activity.

Because of the heat and humidity of the last few days the decision was made to have the activity on the Basketball court instead of the social hall. The captains were not thrilled with this decision at first but once they saw it was still loud and exciting outside everyone got into it.

About halfway through the event, the clouds started rolling in. We quickly moved a canopy to protect all of the electronic equipment and then we prayed the rain would pass over………..

well lets just say that did not happen. We had our own little Woodstock on the basketball court. The rain started as a drizzle but the game continued. Once the rain got a little heavier we sent the youngest kids back to their bunks.

The older kids were all screaming “LET US PLAY” “LET US PLAY”. I felt like the umpire of a baseball game. The decision was as long as there was no lightning we would PLAY ON. A few more rounds and the rain got heavier. The body and face paint was dripping off of faces everywhere. The campers did not care, they were having the time of their lives. We finished the night with a group of sing alongs highlighted by the Camp Lakota Favorite “BUTTERCUP”. Yes nothing riles up the Lakotan’s like a good Buttercup sing along.

Standing in the rain (while the other judges were huddled under the canopy) I mentioned to someone that this was like our own little Woodstock. It was an awesome night that everyone will remember probably forever. So at first everyone complained that we moved the event from outside the social hall, but in the end, 20 years from now they will all be talking about the Visiting Day night in the Rain.

I will ask someone else to blog about the first day of Olympics tomorrow morning.

Signing off.

email me with any questions or comments. wurtzy@camplakota.com