Weekly Recap Video 4
Parents’ Visiting Day 2023
https://vimeo.com/847628863/e8202eca20
PVD Tomorrow
Just like the night before Thanksgiving we are crazy busy and excited getting camp ready to host you tomorrow. The campers are cleaning up the bunks and my maintenance team has been painting every piece of wood in camp. We have planned everything out but can only pray as usual for sunny skies.
I hope you really enjoy the day here tomorrow. I remember my visiting days here with my sons being some of my best memories at the Realm. Be ready for all the emotions….
Woody
Culture of Kindness
I cannot believe we have been here for four weeks. It seems like the summer started yesterday. The Realm now feels like home to everyone.
The best part of my job is watching everything come together. We plan for ten months and try as hard as we can to account for every situation. The truth is some of the best parts of the summer happen naturally, as most of you will see this weekend for yourself. Our secret sauce is my staff – from the 30 first year aides to Chuck Illig in his 58th summer. The shared love of CRH and all it stands for is the glue that keeps us together. People from all parts of the world come here and adapt to our lifestyle of happiness and respect for one another. The culture of kindness is our guiding light.
Please take the time this Saturday to meet all of your kid’s counselors. You will feel their connection to the Realm and your kids. They have watched over them while celebrating victories and learning to accept defeat.
I hope that when you leave here Saturday afternoon you too will “get it” in every way. For those of you who are taking your kids home on Sunday – please be patient as your kids will probably suffer from camp sickness. Listen to the stories and allow them to sleep…..
For those of you who will be saying goodbye to your kids till the end of the season, I promise you that the best is yet to come …….. our summer explodes after visiting day in every way. It will go by in a second !!!!!
Looking forward to welcoming our parents and families back to the Realm Saturday morning.
Woody
Parents Visiting Day Thoughts
- Check-in tables open on Saturday between 9:00am and 9:30am. Please do not arrive any earlier. Activities will begin at 10am. Our attendants will help you with parking and direct you to the check-in station where you will see your schedule and get your name tags. Families need to depart by 3:00pm.
- Please do not be late, as it will make your children very anxious. Once here, make a point to meet their counselors and their new/existing friends here at camp. For those of you with campers staying for the rest of the summer, remind them how proud you are of them, how excited you are for the second half, and how you’ll see them before they know it.
- Please know that it is much harder for the kids when you leave them now than when you left them on Opening Day. We sometimes see homesickness at the half-way point for campers who were not homesick at the beginning of the summer.
- Please make your exit quick, and try at all costs to leave your children at their bunk and near your counselors. I will be stationed in the office and in the theater, so please come say goodbye and leave your kids at least in that area as you walk to the parking lot.
- Lunch will be provided for everyone to enjoy. Feel free to bring blankets to eat picnic-style, otherwise we will have tables and chairs set up under the tent and around camp.
- No dogs, just people. We have some campers who are afraid of dogs and also allergic.
- Wear clothing that will allow you to be active and enjoy the activities!
- Bring rain gear (just in case) and sunscreen (hope you will need it)!
- No camper is to leave the premises other than Foresters, Shires, Saxons and Scribes. These senior campers are allowed to leave camp Saturday at 2:30pm with their parents, returning by 8:30pm. All campers must be checked out upon departure and checked back in upon their return.
- Phones will stay locked up throughout Parents Visiting Weekend.
- NO FOOD IS PERMITTED TO BE BROUGHT INTO CAMP. We have children at Robin Hood with life-threatening food allergies (nuts, peanuts, milk, wheat etc.). It is imperative that we control what food is on camp.
- Our first session ends on Sunday, July 23th. We will have all first session campers packed before Sunday’s departure.
