Our son deserves more credit than we do in this. I was actually surprised when he agreed to the concept when we first discussed it last fall. He's pretty quick to turn down anything new or unknown... but this time he said yes right away. I had him read through all the materials, and nothing about the experience seemed to faze him -- not even the laundry!
I wrote this, in part, because I was frustrated by not finding much of anything while contemplating this last year, and while my retelling is based on the monstrous sample of one... it's a start. I also wrote this to appease the all-powerful archivist in our home -- she's wanted some "documentation" of the experience for her scrapbooks.
I'm so glad -- and relieved -- that our son enjoyed the experience. I didn't know anything about camps like CTY when I was in school, but I'm sure I would have done whatever necessary (including applied myself in school) to participate.
