Summer Camp: 2006 Edition

This past weekend I headed up to the Berkshires in the lovely state of Connecticut (highest per capita income in the Union baby!) to see what it was like to go to camp as an adult. My wife and I, along with another couple that we are really good friends with, grabbed a 4 bed cabin and the biggest take away is that going to camp as an adult leaves you sore as all bloody hell but smiling none the less.

Over 2 days, I enjoyed:

• getting stuck on the side of an Upstate NY road for 2.5 hrs when the bus to camp broke down
  
• almost getting an open container ticket by the NYS Highway Patrol who came to see why a big bus was in a no-standing zone and found about 50 people drinking heavily (there was a huge supermarket right where we were stuck thankfully)
  
• seeing lots of stars (the night kind)
  
• okay-to-bad food with plenty of bug juice
  
• rock climbing
  
• hiking and rock scrambling
  
• archery
  
• lake swimming (technically a pond according to Google Maps)
  
• very loud people from Staten Island
  
• softball along with a keg
  
• drunken Uno
  
• not writing any letters home
  
• riding a mechanical bull
  
• mountain biking
  
• more swimming
  
• an all-out dodgeball war where I happened to win one match by nailing a dead ringer for Jean Gerrard (character in Talladega Nights) in the leg right as he was going to peg me
  
• winning the Bonnie and Clyde award for best married couple at the awards lunch (okay, there weren't that many married people there but still...).
  

Now, just about two days later, my body keeps getting more and more sore. It hurts to walk, hurts to bend and I love it! I'm inspired to take up climbing again too, and since there is a sweet vert wall in NYC in the UWS called the Atrium and because my sis goes to New Paltz, which is smack dab in the heart of great climbing country, I am really psyched! Overall, the weekend was a bit dorky and a bit cheesy but a ton of fun and I would do it again, as long as I brought a posse back with me the next time. I mean, where else but camp are you going to jam all of those activities above into 2 days!