Additions to WaBak Posts

This past weekend my youngest daughter and I attended the Girls Weekend Out/Me & My Gal session at Camp WaBak.  It’s a one night/one day sampler type session to give the parents and girls a brief taste of camp life.  I’ve gone two years with each daughter making this the 4th time I’ve gone (and the last time).  I did it hoping that my girls would want to go to camp and as a way to ease them into it.  I hope it will work with my youngest (we’ll find out next year!) but it didn’t really sink in with my oldest.  I guess every kid is different.  When I was growing up, I always dreamed about going to a resident camp and even being a counselor, but we couldn’t afford it, so I stuck with the summer day camps my council put on.  They were fun, but it wasn’t the same as being able to get away from home for an extended period.  There definitely would have been some wacky hijinks at Camp Northstar if I had been there.  Instead, I lived vicariously through the 80s run of camp movies. 

Anyway, while I was there, I snapped some pictures of WaBak’s units and added them to the Camp WaBak Cabins post.  Other than cookie memes, it gets the highest number of hits via online searches.  I’m assuming those are from parents looking around to find out more about WaBak when camp season rolls around.

But here’s what I am most excited about!  On Friday night, we had a campfire program featuring Repeat After Me songs, skits (alas, no alien biscuits), and the obligatory s’mores.  It ended with the counselors singing the Camp WaBak Song.  I couldn’t get my phone out fast enough to record them, so I asked if they would sing it again after everybody left, and they obliged.  I’ve had the lyrics up for a while but not the tune, so I’m happy to say it’s now been added to the Camp WaBak Song Post.  Take a listen.  Thanks 2016 WaBak Counselors!

Also, there’s a new patch featuring the WaBak Waterfall – of which I’ll cover in a later post.

Additionally, there’s another patch this season for campers, but it’s not available for purchase as far as I know.  It incorporates our council’s logo and slogan (or GSUSA’s?) for this year’s camp season, and there’s one per camp – Camp WaBak, Camp Mary Elizabeth, and Camp Occaneechi, which is part of the YMCA.