Camp

When I was a kid, I didn't go to camp. The only camping we did was at an FKK, or nudist, resort in Croatia. The weather was great until we all got sunburns. My oldest, Joachim, has begged us to send him to camp. One of his friends, who had cancer but is over it now, always went to a camp and loved it. Every year, Joachim would beg us to so send him, but the camp his friend went to wouldn't take him. Really, it's discriminatory for camps like that to not take healthy kids. Isn't the goal for all of them to be healthy? I got really mad at the woman who answered the phone when I called to see if Joachim could go. I called her camp a skin cancer factory and hung up.

This year, Joachim will finally get to go to camp. It's kind of a surprise since we haven't even told him he's going. It's an environmental camp where they kids help clean up a stream in West Virginia. He'll be out doors and there are supposed to be fun activities. On the day that he leaves, we're going to just drop him off at the pick up place in the morning.