WINGDALE REVISITED

A week after the conclusion of Labor Day Weekend, here's what you missed if you weren't there:

Checking in at the Mo and finding out what bunk you were in...watching people arrive...changing for Shabbat...Shabbat services at the amphitheater, overlooking Lake Ellis while we said kabbalat shabbat and swatting mosquitoes as we watched children bury themselves in gravel...watching open-eyed children frolic on the camp grounds...a softball game featuring a six-year-old catcher...babies in the sand by the Agam...bonding bunkside with friends...repeated viewings of the Shidduchim Wall on the mirpeset of the Chadar Ochel...the Big Three of Be Carefuls: sunblock, bug spray, and water bottles...cheesecake and tofutti cuties for dessert...pineapple trees with fruit kabob branches...the first ever Kikarstock dinner festival and party to rock Beit Degel Bet as never before... karaoke delights for both adults and kids who were up too late...the traditional campfire...a special Monday jazz breakfast...promises that we'd all do it again next year...

You know the drill. Alumni Reunion, Labor Day Weekend. 2005's on its way.

Shanah tovah, to all.