I have always loved going to summer camp since I was just a little girl.
- I have never seemed to be able to get away from it.
Now that I am an adult, I just take groups of children from our church to summer camp each year. I would live at camp if I could. Camp has changed quite a bit since I was a kid though. I can remember nights in the cabins that were so hot that we ended up sleeping outside under the stars. Firstly, all of the cabins have air conditioning. My campers could not believe it when I told them that I did not have air conditioning in my cabin growing up. They said that they would never come to camp if there was no air conditioning. I told them a story of how one time I did get to stay in the only cabin on the campus. Every year at camp, there was a competition. Whichever cabin had the tidiest points got to stay in the air-conditioned cabin during the second week of camp. There were over two hundred campers each summer, so the chances of getting the tidiest cabin award were slim, but one year my team won, and we got to stay in the air-conditioned cabin for the entire second week of camp. It was like paradise to us. When my friends and I get together, we still talk about our amazing week in the air-conditioned cabin! I told my campers this story, they did not believe me at first, so I had an old friend who has been on staff at the camp for over forty years verify my story.