Saturday

Gettin' that rock for Gold Rush!

It was another eventful day at Camp Micah.  The day started with a late wake-up and an awesome buffet breakfast.  After breakfast, the campers chose to go to one of the two services or the hike up Baldpate Mountain.  After the Shabbat morning offerings, we had our Tikuna Mattata programming.  Among the highlights were some of the Critters visiting an animal shelter in Fryeburg, Maine where they brought homemade dog biscuits that they baked last week.

The afternoon was extremely hot so we decided to open to pool, zip line, and some other activities.  After Shabbat Free Choice, we held our annual Gold Rush, one of the most anticipated all-camps of the summer.  The day concluded with our cookout dinner, camp fire and Havadallah.

Friday

Today was a very busy sports day at Micah.  We hosted a 15 and under baseball tournament.  Three other camps, Wildwood, Wigwam and Wynona joined us for a day of hits and runs on our Eleanor Winston Baseball Field.  Micah played Wigwam in the final game and emerged victorious with a score of 5 to 2.  In other Micah sports news, our U15 girls went to Camp Mataponai for  a soccer match and won the game (3 to 2) in the last minute of play.  It was truly a Championship day at Micah!

We are so happy that Rabbi Lipof joined us for Shabbat this week.  She told us a true story about an encounter with Itzhak Perlman and the lessons that we can learn from him and his life.

Thursday

Another beautiful Micah day!  Today was Tie-Dye Thursday and many campers and staff dressed for the occasion.  We hosted a soccer intercamp which was a lot of fun for all of the players.  Many campers got the chance to use our new Flying Squirrel element at the Ropes Course.

Campers at the Ropes Course!

Evening Activity was by unit:

• Critters played Disney Clue
• Prowlers had a Peabody Pond Adventure
• Timbers splashed the night away at a Luau at the Pool
• Summits had a tied together scavenger hunt

Wednesday

Today we woke up to some rain which has not really happened this summer.  Instead of running regular activities, we did something we call “Micah Cribs”.  The concept of cribs is for each bunk to decorate their cabin to represent a certain theme.  Some cabins did movies, some did books and some even did vacation destinations.   Having the chance to go though the areas really showed how creative our campers are.

After lunch the skies cleared and we were able to resume a regular schedule.  One of the highlights of the day was our Under 15 boy’s basketball game versus Camp Owatonna.  Our boys played a great game and came away with a win.

Tonight the camp had an all area night.  The girls had a “camp family” reunion, while the boys played a game of ultimate village ball.  Everyone had a great time and we look forward to an awesome day tomorrow.

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Tuesday

Tug-O-War

Wow, what a day!  Today was our first session Color War. The day started with a late wakeup.  All of the campers were in high spirits cheering for their team. The first event of the day was the Tug-o-War, which was one of the most even battles in years.  After that, we had our first round of Unit Activities and while the competition was fierce, the sportsmanship was awesome!  While the afternoon brought a little rain, it did little to dampen our spirits.  We had another round of Unit Activities and we concluded first session Color War with our famous Micah Scavenger Hunt.  There were a lot of crazy items the teams had to gather and it amazed us how they were able to obtain some of them.  After all of the competition was over, we announced who was in the lead (the points from first session Color War carry over to second session).  Drum roll please…GOLD now has the lead heading into second session!

Monday

COLOR WAR!!!!

Today is Mark’s birthday.  The day started with Mark’s favorite breakfast, chocolate frosted donuts from Dunkin Donuts — A really sweet way to start the day.  It was a very busy day at Micah as we had 2 different hikes out and several inter-camp competitions including a soccer tournament at camp Nashoba North for our under 15 boys and girls. 

Our evening activity was a real birthday treat, hypnotist Ronny Rohm performed in Uncle Milt’s before the entire camp.  Ronny hypnotized our CITs and counselors and had them do amazing feats.  Some of the actions that he had them do was an ice cream cone eating contest, pretending to be a  famous singer and tons of other funny things.  It was amazing to see everyone under hypnosis, but the most amazing thing was that at the end of the show he hypnotized the CITs into breaking color war!!!!  The camp is now split into  two teams – Blue and Gold  — for our first session, one day Color War.  Steve, Gretl and the CITs, the first session color war committee, have a jam-packed day planned for tomorrow.  Stay tuned for updates!

Sunday

It was a bit rainy today at camp, but that did not keep us from having lots of fun!  Our regular activities were running for all but 1 period of the day.  A few brave campers went out on a 2 day/1night hiking trip to Carter Dome while other Micah hikers went to Frankenstein Cliff for the day.  For evening activity our Critters played games on the Football field while the other campers had a choice to watch the World Cup Soccer Game (which we had DVRed)  or a movie in Uncle Milt’s.  It was an exciting night!