Music through the Trees

The kids have been here for almost a week already and session one is in full swing. I've got seventy five kids in the show, and five intensive kids who light up my days.

The weather was very bad, but now it's better than we would normally expect in first session. Outside my door the sun is setting brilliantly and I can hear my friend Zippy playing guitar and singing through the trees between her cabin and mine.

Chris may have broken her foot. We'll know in the next day or so. She has a walking splint/boot thing and she's on crutches. It's kind of a bad scene. Good thing her staff is fantastic.

My staff is too.

Oh, and I caught a kid the other day on flying trapeze. That was the first catch since the one when I hurt myself last summer. It feels good to be back in the saddle, so to speak. The memory of my injury still looms large, however, and makes what's going on with Chris even more poignant as I can totally relate to her frustration and anxiety.

More later...

Camping It Up

It's been such a long time, I know! I turned 30, was in an aerial show, made it through another quarter of school, went to my brother's graduation from business school, started taking lessons with a new aerial teacher, helped (in a very small way) to get the new Circus Contraption show on its feet, and now I'm at camp again.

Chrissymine got here ten days earlier than I did this year and she's doing pre-camp work. I arrived on Tuesday night (after a LONG trip through some rather apocalyptic weather) and now I have a few days before the bulk of the counselors get here in which to prepare and work out and write a chapter of my dissertation. What? Yeah, we'll see how that goes.

It's beautiful here, by the way. The black flies are horrifically bad, however. I have four HUGE bites on the back of my neck that I'm pretty sure I received within an hour of being here, yet they refuse to get any smaller. But camp's beautiful nonetheless.

I am the new proud mama of a BRAND SPANKING NEW CUSTOM MADE FLYING TRAPEZE NET. Awwwwww yeah. I can't wait to try it out. It's so white it burns the eyes. I want to marry it. But that's not even legal in Canada! (rimshot!)

Chelsea is here too, this year. We weren't about to leave her at home again for an entire summer. Especially after her being hit by a car last year. Yikes. Right now she's on the bed with me. We finally trained her not to get up on our bed at home, and we got to camp and that all went out the window. Oh well, what can you do?

So that's my little update. Not much going on yet, I'm afraid. I'll keep an eye out for stuff to write about and I'll try to be better about blogging this time around (I always say that!).

My bug bites and I are off to take a run.