Friday, August 5, 2011

Camp Joan - Day 1 - The Oddysey

Hello! It's me, Dan. I'm gonna be posting the stuff for our blog. We made it to Latham safely, thank God, and now we are relaxing in the newly-added Ghost Lodge. Pictures of the sign will be uploaded.  Well - signs. We each made one. Anyway, we all knew that Camp Joan would be a fun ordeal - however, the drive there was not.


We left at 12:30 and made it about 10 minutes - only to realize I forgot a bag full of $$. So, we waited for my Grandmother to come. In the meantime, we got some DQ stuff. We were on the road to NY again. We didn't see much. Well, if you consider staring at trees, grass, and asphault for about 6 hours not very exciting, that is.

Not much traffic, thankfully. I shudder to think that it would take 7 hours to get from Doyelstown to Latham, because it's really only a 5-hour drive. We stopped at Wegman's - which, by the way, is really fudging huge - and ate there. Yes, there is an entire cafe above the store. Don't you think that's overkill? Well, I do, anyways.

Another few hours driving, and we stopped at a rest stop, walked around a little, took care of our, ah, bodily waste, and, a while later, we arrived in Latham. We're customizing our room for the days we're here at the moment. By the way, our DS batteries lasted all 6 1/2 hours of the ride. THAT is impressive. "The Egg" looks nothing like an egg, by the way. We're going to ride the Eerie canal tomorrow. No worries, we're going to avoid any icebergs.

Here's the quote of the day:
"Are we there yet?" - Molly
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PHOTOS:


Campers arrive at Latham



The suitcases - Try lugging them around all day!


Designing the sign.


Finishing touches


Dan's Sign



Molly's sign


Theo's sign



Dan's bed


Movie night!


Here's the like to our first video, We will upload one everyday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Y1yHicWbc










6 comments:

Sara said...

Dan,
You need to blog more often! You're a natural!

Campers said...

We're going to (attempt) to post a video right now. Camp Joan Update #1

Sara said...

Might be easier to upload it to youtube, then share the link. Blogger can take forever to load a video.

mag0607@gmail.com said...

Hello you happy campers! sounds like a lot of fun to me. Dan, no comment on The Mighty Hudson and the Tapan Zee?Molly, are the boys behaving? Theo,good luck sharing a billet with Dan. He sometimes loses things. It's a genetic thing.He can't help it.Joan, good luck!Len, are you there?Strange that I am shooting off comments to two family groups and both groups are "Campers"- have a super day. Love, Gran...

mag0607@gmail.com said...

Hello you happy campers! sounds like a lot of fun to me. Dan, no comment on The Mighty Hudson and the Tapan Zee?Molly, are the boys behaving? Theo,good luck sharing a billet with Dan. He sometimes loses things. It's a genetic thing.He can't help it.Joan, good luck!Len, are you there?Strange that I am shooting off comments to two family groups and both groups are "Campers"- have a super day. Love, Gran...

maggie said...

I think that technology these days is absolutely amazable.Viewing the pictures, reading the comments almost makes me feel that I'm right there at Camp Joan.Keep on having fun and keep on blogging.