With another week of camp completed, I can definitely state that my decision to decline a Y.E.S. program extension and become a camp counselor has been one of the best decisions I've made in a long time. Sure, I miss WDW--I don't really miss the parks all that much, but I do miss my fellow cast members and the occasional Mickey Mouse sighting quite a bit. Camp has been great, despite the fact that I have had only and exactly TWO sets of resident campers. The rest of my time has been filled with a week of day camp, a week of camp training, and a week of lifeguard training (you are, after all, reading the blog of a Red Cross Certified Life Guard with Waterfront lifeguarding certification, also).

Next week (all right, the week that starts later today) I'm one of the staff members assigned to travel to the St. Croix River, located on the border of Minnesota and Wisconsin. I'm pumped. I'm sure that I will have plenty of things to report to all of you upon my return (assuming I return..., all right, upon my return). Until then, remember a few things.

#1. Bats are your friends. If you happen to return to a cabin late at night and notice a bat, please do not try to kill it. Think of all the mosquitoes they eat. Mmm, mosquitoes...Maybe I'll try to bring a pet bat with me on the river trip.

#2. Apparently, real sickness does not occur when you feel nauseated. According to the camp nurse, who told a fellow counselor that she was not sick, "You won't throw up if you don't have a fever, and you don't have a fever." That counselor soon threw up.

#3. Capture the flag is the greatest camp game ever. And red facepaint requires a LOT of soap for good removal.

#4. The constellation Cepheus the King looks like a garden gnome.