Liam and Miles are at sleepaway camp in Wisconsin for a week. Here they are before getting on the bus (a coach takes them to camp and back again, we meet them at a drop off spot in Chicago on Saturday)
This is Miles's first time going to sleepaway camp, and he was very excited about going. We have been really keen to get a letter from them to see how it's going! Today we got a postcard from Miles (maybe one from Liam tomorrow).
Miles's letter:
The cabins are named after American frontiersmen, so when Miles says he is in Crocket, this means he has been assigned to the cabin Crockett, after Davy Crockett. For readers who are unacquainted with Davy Crockett, he was a hunter from Tennessee who served in the US Congress from 1821-1833, lost his seat, moved to Texas, became interested in Texan independence and then died defending the Alamo. I wonder if they went over this stuff with Miles and the other 7 year olds…
Below is the lodge at camp where they eat their meals. It's really nice inside, with a big stone fireplace. Liam says the food is delicious at camp.
the Alamo? you mean that place in Texas I so wanted to visit last spring? Miles could have had a leg up on Davy Crockett info had we gone to the Aalamo
LOL, Karen, you are always looking out for me!
Miles, is that you writing from camp? Wow, how are you sneaking in computer time? You’ll have to tell Erica about that since she will be lost without her Internet connection this summer for 3 weeks at Camp Maclean.
Instead of that old fashioned past-time of archery, we are now learning to make bluetooth enabled wireless devices out of recycled aluminum foil. Very handy for posting to the blog! I’ll teach Erica when I get back.
Hope the boys have a fun week & you two aswell!
Camp looks nice. Where do I go to sign up? Davy Crockett was very “in” when I was in elementary school. There was a song we used to sing about how he was raised on a mountaintop in Tennessee and he killed a bear when he was only three. – Nana
Boys look very good and grown up on their way to camp. Yes Davy Crocket was a very popular song when I was their age and at school.
That is so interesting that kids were singing the “Davy Crockett” song in IRELAND back in the mid to late 1950s! It was a very catchy tune. After I wrote that comment, I found myself humming it the rest of the day!