Visited New Camp!

[Campgirlboo]

Hey everyone...I had a "Good" Friday ;-) took my day off and went to visit my new camp...Camp Logan....saw my new tent and such...good times, good times....little bitter, however :-) My fiance (who's working there too) is sleeping in the "man" tent...and I've told him about how camp is about roughing it and being in nature, in a TENT...guess what? LOL...his tent has something like 6 elec. outlets!!!

:sighs and smiles:

Oh well....my tent's not at the bottom of a HUGE hill I'd have to climb everyday :-D

Thought I'd share!
*Boo*

[Flukie]

Electrical outlets??

Oh the things I could do with those! :)


Somehow, I think our Site Manager will just laugh at me and point to the lodge.

[Campgirlboo]

yeah, I know...right? LOL! I thought I'd just not tell him, but he's coming up next weekend to volunteer so he's going to check out his tent, I'm sure...now, to convince him not to bring the tv, his ps2, a fan, a stereo.....and the list goes on...

:-)

So much for roughing it during his first time at camp, huh?

[Sparkes]

*shudder* tents. I'll take my cabin with electricty and toilets/showers any day!

[KiwiCRB]

Tents are my FAVORITE place to sleep, with the covered wagons being a close second. You can tie the the flaps up and the breeze just blows on through, it's amazing. In cabins it's waaay to stifling and the electricity makes the bugs come in and then they get trapped in there. Sweat bees trapped inside of a small cabin with 8 brownies = baaaad.

[ArtisticEric]

I'm so jealous that you got to visit your new camp, mine is in maine so i won't get to see it until june when i get there for staff training

[CAMPFRIEND]

I am not sure what our campers would do without air.

Kiwi-you are in tents in Texas? I am not sure if I could do that and I love to camp!

[KiwiCRB]

Well they're platform tents, so the sides roll up and you get a great breeze. We don't have air anywhere except the infirmary so they're a lot cooler than the cabins. You also have to remember that up my way it's WAY less humid than where you are so the heat doesn't feel so... overwhelming.

[CAMPFRIEND]

What about snakes and bugs?

[KiwiCRB]

We have mosquito nets and snakes have a hard time climbing up the wooden platforms... so we're good. A HUGE bull snake lived under one of the camper tents last year but we just told them it was protecting them from rattle snakes and they decided they like their snake. After the initial hysteria.

[CAMPFRIEND]

I guess that works. I still don't think that I would tent camp by my camp!

[Sparkes]

ew. snakes? man, I wouldn't be able to handle that. I've seen like, two in my llife, one of which was in a zoo. I'll take a stuffy cabin in a snake free zone any day.

[KiwiCRB]

Haha. Snakes are cool. Last summer I tried to pick one up and it bit me. Oops. I told the camp director about it the other day. Haha. Whenever there is a snake or critter problem I seem to get sent for if i'm close at hand. I had to pull a baby snake out of a shower once. And one out of the dining hall. They were cute, but they made me let them go... oh well.

[CAMPFRIEND]

What kind of snakes do you have?

[KiwiCRB]

Rattle snakes,maybe cotton mouths and copperheads, bull snakes, tons of different kind of grass snakes, and legless lizards (they're tiny and harmless and don't have the belly scales as they are thought to have evolved from lizards more recently than snakes). The first three listed are the poisonous ones and I'm not sure if we have the second two. We also have black widows, brown recluses, and scorpions. As far as I know no one has ever been bitten by anything poisonous excluding scorpions. Last summer we saw two rattle snakes and the summer before we didn't see any. As long as you know how to act around them you're going to be OK and I always tell my campers what to do just in case.

[Sparkes]

ok, so clearly, texas is NOT the state for me!

[runrachrunn]

ok, so clearly, texas is NOT the state for me!


LOL Sparkes, I'm with you on that one. I freakout over centipedes and earwigs.

[KiwiCRB]

Texas is amazing. We have lots of pride about our state. Our history is really interesting and we are the only state in the USA that can fly our flag at the same level as the United States flag because we were once our own country. The things I mentioned aren't really a big deal because you really don't see them very much. And snakes are way more scared of you than you are of them so just stop when you see one and it will go away. What are earwigs?

[CAMPFRIEND]

We have all the same stuff. I have see my fair share in the past few weeks. I would not be to happy to wake up with any of the things that you have listed! I love Texas but the heat is killing me. I guess that will take some time!

[ArtisticEric]

I don't really mind bugs so much but ticks kinda make me squirm.

[Sparkes]

earwigs are the grossest bug you've ever seen! They just look gross, they don't do anything. Their generally found in basements, and under rocks, and in gross dark areas. The myth, and it isn't true, is that they got their name because they came from Europe and were notorious for crawling into people's ears and laying eggs. Its not true though. Well, at least it hasn't been proven. Man, I have the largest compilation of useless knowledge ever! I don't even know where I get half the stuff from!

[runrachrunn]

LOL Sparkes.

The human head weighs 8 pounds.

[c3divers]

ohh I hate tics. First time I saw a tic was in basic training in South Carolina. I still shiver when I think about them. I had a huge tic attach itself on my neck uuugghhh. Whenever my dog gets a tic I have my husband take them off because I can't stand them.

[KiwiCRB]

One time in english a tick fell of this guy (grosss i know but he'd been camping) so we tried to kill it. We stepped on it (even someone in heels used the pointy part) and stabbed it with a pencil and just about everything we could figure out to do, but it would NOT die. Every time it was squished out flat it would puff up again and start crawling away. The teacher ended up getting mad and grabbing it in a tissue and flusing it or something. TICKS CREEP ME OUT!

[CAMPFRIEND]

You need to use fire!