Day six was the end of a lot of things.
In the morning, Theo went to basketball camp for one final time (this year) and at noon we went to Forensics class one last time.
A Senior Investigator, Officer Carey, visited and talked about being in the State Police. I thought it was pretty interesting. We did some DNA tests, we matched blood type, stuff like that.
Dad/Frank arrived after we left for Forensics, so we didn't see him until 4:00. We had dinner (turkey) and went to see a movie. Molly, Theo, and Joan saw Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, while Dad and I saw the Amazing Spiderman.
Sorry this post is so short, but it was a pretty lazy day.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"You're Bacon Boy" - Molly, to Dan.
*SECRET MESSAGE*
Hi.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
Camp Joan - Year Two - Day 5 - The Campers take flight
Thursday was a good day.
We woke, ate breakfast, and at about 10:00 we went to a farm.
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At the farm, there were animals, including a horse, a pig, and a limping goat. Oddly enough, no cows. Weird. Anyways, there was a huge zipline. I decided to not be a wimp and go on the zipline. We suited up, put our helmets on, and, after a brief description of our equipment, Sara went on the zipline, followed by Molly, then me.
The sense of height wasn't that great, but the speed made up for it. You could be going 25 miles an hour at one point. There were two ziplines, and the first one was better. You got that maximum speed and you got a pretty good view of cornfields.
We stopped at the second station. Sara was long gone from there, and Molly had a bit of trouble with her equipment, but she fixed it and she was off. To see Molly flying go to:
To watch Dan, go to:
The second line was not as fun. It was uphill (kinda-sorta) and it just straight up wasn't as enjoyable. The quarter mile up a hill wasn't exactly fun, either. It was hot, you're in gear, a helmet...not fun.
After that, we stopped at a depressing-looking Popeyes, ate lunch, went to Saint Rose, took forensics, got picked up by Uncle Len, and went back to Camp Joan.
Quote of the day:
"I figure this is as close to being Spiderman as I'm gonna get..." - Dan, while looking at the zipline.
We woke, ate breakfast, and at about 10:00 we went to a farm.
'
At the farm, there were animals, including a horse, a pig, and a limping goat. Oddly enough, no cows. Weird. Anyways, there was a huge zipline. I decided to not be a wimp and go on the zipline. We suited up, put our helmets on, and, after a brief description of our equipment, Sara went on the zipline, followed by Molly, then me.
The sense of height wasn't that great, but the speed made up for it. You could be going 25 miles an hour at one point. There were two ziplines, and the first one was better. You got that maximum speed and you got a pretty good view of cornfields.
We stopped at the second station. Sara was long gone from there, and Molly had a bit of trouble with her equipment, but she fixed it and she was off. To see Molly flying go to:
To watch Dan, go to:
The second line was not as fun. It was uphill (kinda-sorta) and it just straight up wasn't as enjoyable. The quarter mile up a hill wasn't exactly fun, either. It was hot, you're in gear, a helmet...not fun.
After that, we stopped at a depressing-looking Popeyes, ate lunch, went to Saint Rose, took forensics, got picked up by Uncle Len, and went back to Camp Joan.
Quote of the day:
"I figure this is as close to being Spiderman as I'm gonna get..." - Dan, while looking at the zipline.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Camp Joan - Year 2 - DOUBLE FEATURE (Days 3 and 4) - Legos and Painted Shoes
Sorry I couldn't get this out earlier, but we've done a lot.
Yesterday, we saw Mr. Lego and his Tritiny Church model. There are two main models - there is a replica of Elm Street - which was destroyed (not by me) during the moving from a truck to a library - and the aforementioned Church. The Church was really impressive. It apparently was dismantled and rebuilt 3 times. We took a few pictures and whatnot, which will be posted shortly.
After that, we went to College of Saint Rose, and went to forensics. We used the bunsonburner (is that spelled correctly?) and used a few chemicals that could burn our skin if it made contact. Fortunately, no one got burned and no hair was singed off. I still say it will happen soon.
Today, we went to the Albany Institute of Art and History. We saw mummies, sculptures, paintings et cetera. I thought it was pretty small and generally unimpressive. But that's just me. After that, we had lunch from various vendors and ate some gelato (Ice cream with less emphasis on the "cream").
At forensics today, we learned about fingerprints. To introduce us to the topic, we bought in shoes and painted the bottom of them. The tread was different for everyone, which is a lot like fingerprints.
We took actual fingerprints, too. If you wanted me to summarize them, it would be: "Easy on, difficult off." People spent 3 to 5 minutes at the sinks, trying to was the stinkin' liquid off. If you're wondering how our attempt went, let's just say that I'm typing this with black fingers.
We picked up Theo from Siena, stopped at the house, went to the Pig Pit, pigged out (Good Grief, that was a terrible pun. I can't believe I said that. How embarrasing.) and then we went home.
Frank AKA Dad AKA Bugly AKA Uncle Frank AKA Cusion Frank AKA Counsler Frank will be coming up on Friday, noonish. I can't wait to see him.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Hello Mr. Cucumber, Island of the Sea" - Molly, to Theo.
(I don't understand it, either.)
Yesterday, we saw Mr. Lego and his Tritiny Church model. There are two main models - there is a replica of Elm Street - which was destroyed (not by me) during the moving from a truck to a library - and the aforementioned Church. The Church was really impressive. It apparently was dismantled and rebuilt 3 times. We took a few pictures and whatnot, which will be posted shortly.
After that, we went to College of Saint Rose, and went to forensics. We used the bunsonburner (is that spelled correctly?) and used a few chemicals that could burn our skin if it made contact. Fortunately, no one got burned and no hair was singed off. I still say it will happen soon.
Today, we went to the Albany Institute of Art and History. We saw mummies, sculptures, paintings et cetera. I thought it was pretty small and generally unimpressive. But that's just me. After that, we had lunch from various vendors and ate some gelato (Ice cream with less emphasis on the "cream").
At forensics today, we learned about fingerprints. To introduce us to the topic, we bought in shoes and painted the bottom of them. The tread was different for everyone, which is a lot like fingerprints.
We took actual fingerprints, too. If you wanted me to summarize them, it would be: "Easy on, difficult off." People spent 3 to 5 minutes at the sinks, trying to was the stinkin' liquid off. If you're wondering how our attempt went, let's just say that I'm typing this with black fingers.
We picked up Theo from Siena, stopped at the house, went to the Pig Pit, pigged out (Good Grief, that was a terrible pun. I can't believe I said that. How embarrasing.) and then we went home.
Frank AKA Dad AKA Bugly AKA Uncle Frank AKA Cusion Frank AKA Counsler Frank will be coming up on Friday, noonish. I can't wait to see him.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Hello Mr. Cucumber, Island of the Sea" - Molly, to Theo.
(I don't understand it, either.)
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Camp Joan - Year Two - Day Two - The Campers accidently join a college
I apologize for the wait for this post, but please understand that I was very tired yesterday. Why? Well...
We woke up and Theo went to basketball camp. Molly and I hung around a while, then we went to Indian Ladder Trail. The walk itself was pretty nice. Aside from a few death-defying slippery rocks, it was uneventful.
Then, we had to go up the stairs. All 110 of them. Allow me to illustrate this scenario:It's been a long walk, and you're tired. You've walked over rocks, saw salamanders, and were pretty close to slipping a couple times. You can check it out on Molly's video at:
But you're almost done. The walk is almost over. You can get into the car and relaaaaaaaa-stairs. Stairs. Those encursed stairs. There are three flights of them. Close to 36 per flight. The first two were okay, but the last one was brutal. It was natural steps. Meaning, rocks were thrown down and you gotta climb them. There's no getting around it. You can't just go back the way you came because you climbed down stairs the way down. It was pretty bad. But, other then that, the walk was fine. You can watch the trek at:
Class wasn't half bad. It was Day One, so we just went over procedures and a few vocabulary words that were thrown in. Safety, bring a notebook, yadda yadda yadda. You know the drill. The class felt about an hour too long, but that's just me.
After that, we got home, Theo arrived, we ate dinner (Tacos) and left for Mini-golf.
When we got there, Sara wasn't there yet, so Molly and Theo went on some paddleboats. If you wanted me to descirbe their paddleboatness, er, let's say Molly was a Battleship and Theo was the Britannica - the one that got blown up. One soaking boat ride later, Sara arrived and we started.
The Golf course was fun, I suppouse. It had the traditional easy-to-hard advancement, some water tricks, a frustrating hole that had 3 "levels" where there was 3 holes and if you hit it in the correct one it would take you to the bottom whereas everything else royally screwed you over, the usual. We had ice cream again, and then we went to bed.
Hey, if you went through that in one day, you'd be tired, too.
CAMP JOAN OLYMPICS:
Theo - 1 gold, 1 silver
Joan - 1 gold
Dan - 1 silver
Molly - 1 bronze
Marybeth and Miles - 1 bronze
NEXT EVENT - Packing Pac-man
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
We woke up and Theo went to basketball camp. Molly and I hung around a while, then we went to Indian Ladder Trail. The walk itself was pretty nice. Aside from a few death-defying slippery rocks, it was uneventful.
Then, we had to go up the stairs. All 110 of them. Allow me to illustrate this scenario:It's been a long walk, and you're tired. You've walked over rocks, saw salamanders, and were pretty close to slipping a couple times. You can check it out on Molly's video at:
But you're almost done. The walk is almost over. You can get into the car and relaaaaaaaa-stairs. Stairs. Those encursed stairs. There are three flights of them. Close to 36 per flight. The first two were okay, but the last one was brutal. It was natural steps. Meaning, rocks were thrown down and you gotta climb them. There's no getting around it. You can't just go back the way you came because you climbed down stairs the way down. It was pretty bad. But, other then that, the walk was fine. You can watch the trek at:
After that we went to the Tollhouse, an old ice-cream parlor/resturaunt. The food was good, but the Peanut Butter and Jelly ice cream was delicious. Our day proceeded and in about 15 minutes, we were at the College of Saint Rose. We signed in and then we walked around a little bit. After that, class began. 
Class wasn't half bad. It was Day One, so we just went over procedures and a few vocabulary words that were thrown in. Safety, bring a notebook, yadda yadda yadda. You know the drill. The class felt about an hour too long, but that's just me.
After that, we got home, Theo arrived, we ate dinner (Tacos) and left for Mini-golf.
When we got there, Sara wasn't there yet, so Molly and Theo went on some paddleboats. If you wanted me to descirbe their paddleboatness, er, let's say Molly was a Battleship and Theo was the Britannica - the one that got blown up. One soaking boat ride later, Sara arrived and we started.
Hey, if you went through that in one day, you'd be tired, too.
CAMP JOAN OLYMPICS:
Theo - 1 gold, 1 silver
Joan - 1 gold
Dan - 1 silver
Molly - 1 bronze
Marybeth and Miles - 1 bronze
NEXT EVENT - Packing Pac-man
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Well, that's eerie." - Dan, after trying a PB&J Ice cream
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Camp Joan Year Two - Day One - Gloomy Skies
Dan here for the blog. Hey, it's our first official update! Cool. Yeah, I've been doing a bit of behind the scenes stuff, but this is official! Somehow.... Anyway, the adventure to Latham this year was slightly more eventful.
My sister and I left Sellersville at about 9:45 in the morning (duh) and met up with Marybeth in Doyelstown. An hour drive later, we met Counsler Joan at Wegman's and ate lunch there. We went shopping for about 10 minutes and then we were on the way. First, Theo forgot his new DS, and things didn't get a real whole lot better from there. Things wre okay for a while, and then everything came crashing down for the campers. First, we got into traffic. Then, the weather started getting worse. it began to absolutely downpour and Molly needed to "go" really badly. One near-exploding bladder later, we were all downright peachy. Molly and Theo (Much to my chegrin) started a Camper's Vlog. Whooooo. It'll be edited in. No, forget I just said that. I'm ruining the movie magic.
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CAMP JOAN OLYMPICS (2012)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------EVENTS THUS FAR;
Sitting Marathon (Joan - Gold\Theo - Silver\ Marybeth and Miles - Bronze\
EVENTS PLANNED;
Hardcore Parkour!
Packing Pac-man!
Cup Stacking!
Basketball Challenge!
Basementball!
Oak Golf!
Wallball Rallies!
Impression Contest!
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"I'm singin' in the rain..." - Theo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyAsmZrAHVY&feature=plcp
My sister and I left Sellersville at about 9:45 in the morning (duh) and met up with Marybeth in Doyelstown. An hour drive later, we met Counsler Joan at Wegman's and ate lunch there. We went shopping for about 10 minutes and then we were on the way. First, Theo forgot his new DS, and things didn't get a real whole lot better from there. Things wre okay for a while, and then everything came crashing down for the campers. First, we got into traffic. Then, the weather started getting worse. it began to absolutely downpour and Molly needed to "go" really badly. One near-exploding bladder later, we were all downright peachy. Molly and Theo (Much to my chegrin) started a Camper's Vlog. Whooooo. It'll be edited in. No, forget I just said that. I'm ruining the movie magic.
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CAMP JOAN OLYMPICS (2012)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------EVENTS THUS FAR;
Sitting Marathon (Joan - Gold\Theo - Silver\ Marybeth and Miles - Bronze\
EVENTS PLANNED;
Hardcore Parkour!
Packing Pac-man!
Cup Stacking!
Basketball Challenge!
Basementball!
Oak Golf!
Wallball Rallies!
Impression Contest!
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"I'm singin' in the rain..." - Theo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyAsmZrAHVY&feature=plcp
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Heads up! (Or Camp Joan 2012: Day 0: The Inception)
Dan here. Just giving all the readers a heads up that Camp Joan 2012 will kick off tomorrow.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Betcha didn't see this one coming!
Hi-yo! Dan here. The Countdown is ON! The trek to Latham will be kicked off in 4 weeks. No new announcements have been made since the last post. A trip to Montreal is planned. Details on this year's camp will be posted as they come.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Camp Joan 2012 date CONFIRMED!
We can confirm that Camp Joan 2012 is ON! Daniel and Molly with attend a class on Forensics (The science of crime investigation) at a university. Theo will attend basketball camp again from August 6-10th. We are planning to take a field trip to the Albany Institute of History and Art to see the Mummies. More trips will be planned, probably over a pizza.
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