Man so much to write and so little time, I've ducked off to the computers after putting on some laundry...the kids will be fine :)

As I mentioned in my last blog, we had College Days between Temple and UConn. I was the male Dean for the Temple Uni which was fantastic, we had face paint on and got really dressed up and played a whole bunch of comps. The only thing was that my team lost EVERY single time, but it was great fun anyway. A few of the competition were especially cool- rope burn- in our teams we had to build a fire and burn through a suspended rope hanging about 6ft off the ground, before the other team successfully compelted the task. Other cool ones were coming up with war cries and making mascots- we paper mached a kid as an owl and fully painted him up and everything. I didn't get a photo but check campsaginaw.com for a pic which will surely be up there.

I was sick all weekend during college days which was pretty disappointing, and even more so when it carried over into my off days which I took from Monday Evening until Wednesday evening. There was a group of 10 of us who hired cars and headed off down to Washington DC for a few days. DC was fantastic, we stayed in a little ethic enclave just outside the city and there were heaps of restaraunts, bars and just really cool places to walk around. Our first full day (tues) we probably walked 25km seeing all the monunments, memorials and musuems within DCs central area. It's a bit like canberra in the set up, just more interesting and with more people around. We covered the main things:

washinton monument (big spike thing), lincoln memorial, white house, captial building, FBI building, Air and Space musuem, Holocaust Museum, Natural HIstory Museum and quite a few war memorials thrown in. I've gotta give to the yanks, they know how to build a monument.

Our nights weren't that crazy due to the U21 nature of some of our group, coupled with the intense ID checking that went on at most bars...very annoying having to show your passport for every drink. We went to Georgetown as well, which is a suburb just outside the city where I think the uni is (georgetown university) so it's a pretty young crowd there. It's comparable to St Kilda I think in terms of the shopping.

So our little trip of freedom came to an abrubt end on wednesday night and we're back into the swing of camp again...woo hoo...sarcasm doesn't really translate electronically. We have visiting day tomorrow so we've got major cleanup time today. I'm over the worst of my sickness thank god, but apparently there's strep throat going around...I wonder why that is? Excitement of the day yesterday was the fact we had someone do NO.2s in the pool effectively shutting down all pool fun for 24hrs.

anyways i'll keep ya posted.

miss ya