he's home!

I picked up the Turkey from camp tonight. He's been there for the last 8 weeks with a "weekend" every Tuesday to do laundry and enjoy air conditioning. While it was good to have the house to myself for a bit, I kinda feel like doing a little yippee skippy dance now that he's home. (Just don't tell the Turkey or it would totally ruin my Cool Mom status.)

Since you saw handfuls of pictures of camp last summer I won't bore you with too many new ones this time, but -- you knew there was gonna be a "but," right? -- how about a few from today?

Yes?

Welllll, since you asked ...

This might look a little familiar from last year. The mongo big flag is the centerpiece of the camp closing ceremony. The late afternoon light today was so great for pictures so I started snapping away. And snapping. And snapping.

The staff takes the flag down and then they hold it while each person shares their favorite part of the summer. It took a while. Must have been a GREAT summer! 

Then the staff folds the flag and hands it to the program director who is vertically challenged so the folded flag is about half his height. It's funny. I couldn't get a photo of the PD with the flag without being obvious so I skipped that and just focused on this: 

When you hit "play" you'll hear the camp cheer they yell/sing at the top of their lungs towards the other camp sites. It obviously taxed the audio on my camera so please excuse the crackly crud. You might even want to adjust the volume downward before listening. And ... oh, yeah ... the Turkey is the kid in the yellow shirt (shock!) on the far left.

Listened to it? Need a hearing test yet? ;-)

After all was said and done the sweaty, stinky, dirty, tired kid hugged his mom ...

... and then put his stuff in the car and put up with his mom wanting yet another picture ...

Awww!

Maybe tomorrow he'll shave ...