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US style summer camps were super rare in the UK. Nobody did that kind of stuff.

Harm wrote in post #16045455
US style summer camps were super rare in the UK. Nobody did that kind of stuff.

THis wasn't really US style. It was european style, Latvian to be specific.

Wow, they are still tehre.
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Time to go back there then, JJ?

Harm wrote in post #16045455
US style summer camps were super rare in the UK. Nobody did that kind of stuff.

We have them in limited numbers over here in Australia as well. These days most are run by different church groups, the scouts or boys brigade. I remember going to a couple when I was a kid, one on the Gold Coast and another near Tamworth down in NSW. It was always fun and exciting as a kid. You'd always be sneaking off and getting into mischief and giving the carers hell haha

Harm wrote in post #16045869
Time to go back there then, JJ?

I;m sensing that it's not going to be the same.

L.J.G. wrote in post #16045877
We have them in limited numbers over here in Australia as well. These days most are run by different church groups, the scouts or boys brigade. I remember going to a couple when I was a kid, one on the Gold Coast and another near Tamworth down in NSW. It was always fun and exciting as a kid. You'd always be sneaking off and getting into mischief and giving the carers hell haha

I have very fond memories and we pulled some spectacular stunts. One of our best was that we snuck into the head mistresses cabin. She was quite a large and very well endowed woman. We um.. borrowed her bras and girdles and ran them up the flag pole. We also shimmied up the pole and tied the halyard a good way up the pole so that they couldn't be lowered. At the morning flag ceremony, there they were, the quadrupple Ds flappin in the breeze.

gjl711 wrote in post #16045905
I have very fond memories and we pulled some spectacular stunts. One of our best was that we snuck into the head mistresses cabin. She was quite a large and very well endowed woman. We um.. borrowed her bras and girdles and ran them up the flag pole. We also shimmied up the pole and tied the halyard a good way up the pole so that they couldn't be lowered. At the morning flag ceremony, there they were, the quadrupple Ds flappin in the breeze.

Bwahahahaha that was terrific!! It certainly trumped anything we ever did! That gave me a good laugh this morning I can tell you.

Ahhh.... summer camp

They were/are quite expensive, but there are tons to choose from around here. When I was 12 my Grandpa paid for me to go to camp for a week (birthday present). It was a camp a couple of hours drive up the lake, so it was really away from home. Had a great week full of fun times and lots of mischief.

In highschool I started attending a different church's youth group. They went to a week camp every summer and I started going too. It is only 20 minutes away, but that didn't bother us. Right on the lake and lots of space to play. We played a lot of sports and swam for hours. Went to that camp for 4 years, was a counsellor the last year.

When we were kids we went to a day camp every year. That camp has been going for around 30 years now, and gets filled up every year. The church runs it for several weeks every summer, with each session being one week. Hundreds of kids attend it, as it is the largest summer camp in the area. Many of my friends have been counsellors and organizers for it, and my sister drives the school bus for a couple of sessions. When she drives for them, her kids get to attend the camp.

^ sound nice!

Summer isn't the only time for camp either, we have Snow Camp! Usually only a weekend retreat, but it's up north in the Muskokas and always a really fun time.

We never needed camp, we built our own. One of my friends lived on a farm right next to a sawmill. The mill owner gave us permission to take whatever we wanted from the scrap pile....we dragged countless boards up the hill behind the farm and built a primitive cabin overlooking a stream. We built a small dam on the stream to make a swimming hole. Spent most of our summer nights up there.

We never spent the night out of the yard, but as soon as warm weather hit we'd set up the tent trailer and spend the summer sleeping in it.

Woolburr wrote in post #16047009
We never needed camp, we built our own. One of my friends lived on a farm right next to a sawmill. The mill owner gave us permission to take whatever we wanted from the scrap pile....we dragged countless boards up the hill behind the farm and built a primitive cabin overlooking a stream. We built a small dam on the stream to make a swimming hole. Spent most of our summer nights up there.

That's not camp, That's building a fort. We had those all the time. Camp was so much more than just the location and the activities.

Camp taught me important life lessons like baseball. What to do at first base with games like spin the bottle, what to do at second when they got old enough for there to be a second base. And third, ah yes, what a base that was. Seriously, it was all about the friends and community more than the location though the place was a lot of fun as well.

We all used to camp out in a cave not far from our homes. As kids we'd wonder off on Saturday morning and not come home till Sunday arvo. Being out in the bush our parents never seemed to have to worry about us, they new we'd only be in the bush somewhere catching yabbies to boil up for dinner over the campfire and camping out in our cave. How times have changed!

gjl711 wrote in post #16047064
That's not camp, That's building a fort. We had those all the time. Camp was so much more than just the location and the activities.

Camp taught me important life lessons like baseball. What to do at first base with games like spin the bottle, what to do at second when they got old enough for there to be a second base. And third, ah yes, what a base that was. Seriously, it was all about the friends and community more than the location though the place was a lot of fun as well.

"Baseball", Spin the Bottle and assorted other entertainment was not lacking from our summer experience. It wasn't unusual to have 20-30 kids around the campfire most evenings. Some had to go home...some spent the night. It was very educational.

LV Moose wrote in post #16045136
I had to get up at 0400. Quitchurbitchin.

That^^^^ I've been getting up at 4:30 every morning to help husband with training bird dogs. And that's after getting home from work at 11:30pm! I go back to sleep after he leaves for work... but it's just not the same.

gjl711 wrote in post #16045905
I;m sensing that it's not going to be the same.

I have very fond memories and we pulled some spectacular stunts. One of our best was that we snuck into the head mistresses cabin. She was quite a large and very well endowed woman. We um.. borrowed her bras and girdles and ran them up the flag pole. We also shimmied up the pole and tied the halyard a good way up the pole so that they couldn't be lowered. At the morning flag ceremony, there they were, the quadrupple Ds flappin in the breeze.

HA!

L.J.G. wrote in post #16045916
Bwahahahaha that was terrific!! It certainly trumped anything we ever did! That gave me a good laugh this morning I can tell you.

This^^^ although it's a good laugh tonight...not morning anymore.

Woolburr wrote in post #16047009
We never needed camp, we built our own. One of my friends lived on a farm right next to a sawmill. The mill owner gave us permission to take whatever we wanted from the scrap pile....we dragged countless boards up the hill behind the farm and built a primitive cabin overlooking a stream. We built a small dam on the stream to make a swimming hole. Spent most of our summer nights up there.

Sounds really really fun!