Frozen in Time or Summer Special?

Is your view of the world frozen in time? Are you so buried in snow you can't tell where things are anymore? Has the winter got you down?

     Are you tired of shoveling, and then shoveling, and then plowing, sanding and shoveling?

                                    May I make a suggestion to ease your winter burden?

Fly Away....

Not what I had in mind

but that would work!

    Register for a Camp Session

http://www.holidayrecreation.com/

Just think how hot and sunny

wet and splashy

fun and  relaxing

friendly and challenging

SUMMER

SPECIAL

that will be!

 See you at Holiday Hill Day Camp

  this summer!    

                               I feel better just thinking about summer!                                                 

Who Can Take The Best Shot?

This is the season to practice those 3 point basketball shots. Perfect the bounce from the  sideline to center court, and the team layup drill. While you are out there dribble over to the far end and go for the dream  shot.

Some day you are going to imagine the Holiday Hill Day Camp Dream Shot. The one swoosh that makes you a camp legend. That they talk about in the ropes course, on the pool deck and paddling down through the Hollow.

None of that can happen until you get your registration in and save a place courtside for you and your friends. Among all the ice and snow and school cancellations it is hard to think about summer but the ground hog said spring is coming so can summer be far behind? http://www.holidayrecreation.com/  hold a session for making that Dream Shot.

Paper Craft Projects : Great on a Snowday!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!   NOT ANOTHER SNOWDAY!!

Snow Queen is out of Control this year and if it is starting to feel like your house full of kids on yet another snow day is out of control, here are three things to do on a snowday  !

1.) Above are video directions to make a paper star , these would be really nice in a window, as a mobile, tucked in an envelope and mailed to a friend, or used to reward a super star student!

2.) RAOK   Random Act of Kindness    
     I hope everyone will keep an eye out for the chance to do this! It is so much fun. Sneak out early and clear snow from someone's car windows, shovel a walk for a neighbor. Mail a "Thinking of You" card to a shut in. Send a letter to a soldier stationed overseas. Need more ideas,  bring someone a pot of flowers, leave cookies by the company water cooler (buy Girl Scout cookies and leave them a double good deed)  Want your deed to help the animal world? Take a pound dog for a nice walk, leave a bag of pet food off at the pound after you go shopping,  put out bird seed, invite neighbor children over to make pinecone bird feeders and take them to a park to hang up.

3.) Go to http://www.holidayrecreation.com/  and sign up for camp this season. Warm thoughts and summer planning will make a snow day seem well spent. Only 6 days left in the first Early Bird Discount.  period (Jan. 31) You can change sessions later if your plans change, but get your first choice now while we have choices.  All the choices are on the website but here is the list so you can think about them right now:

April Vacation Camp April 18-22
June Mini Camp June 20-24
Session 1 June 27-July 8
Session 2 July 11-22
Session 3 July 25-August 5
Session 4 August 8-19
August Mini Camp August 22-26

Need a Happy Thought? 

                                                                  
                                                   Family Pool Memberships June6-Aug 28

Now  that's a great reason to sign in on http://www.holidayrecreation.com/  website - sign your family up and  spend a snowy afternoon bathing suit shopping on line, in a catalog, or at the store!

Swimming & Holiday Hill Little Bobby

Here  is a video for all the "Little Bobby"  campers who  dream of swimming like Olympians!  Read the " little Bobby" Memory from Trampoline Bill ( Bill Young)  below. 

"Wow! to many to pick one and even remember a small percentage of them in a short time so, 1.) climbing up the rope swing, over the limb,  pulling up a new rope, attaching it to the limb and climbing back down NOW THAT WAS DUMB! 2.) losing the race to the horse and knowing Lloyd won. Two feet from the finish it seemed impossible to lose. 3.) ( probably my favorite)  racing 6 Orioles around the 200 meter track.  They each ran 100 meters. My first lap was backwards and against my perception the slowest kids. Easily keeping up, my mouth  was running faster than my feet. Next lap shifted to a higher gear, skipping because the next two campers were faster. Uh Oh! 30-40 meters into  this lap my legs started to rig. The burn, the pain, the dismay watching them pull away but the necessity to endure without quitting to avoid the kids thinking it was OK to quit when things got difficult. Hitting the finish line with a lap to go all was certainly lost as my legs were shot and they were 50-70 meters ahead. Then as each running stride massaged my muscles back to functioning and momentum shifted my way the race was on. Entering the backstretch the fastest little guy was already into the final turn but with each stride he was drawing closer by about a 3:1 margin. With me going into the turn he was almost coming out the other side. Leaning and digging my bare feet into the beautiful sod as the turn straightened he was 10-15 meters from the finish to my about 30. The  it was rig time for me again, but panic time for him as he kept furtively looking over his shoulder, carrying the weight of his teammates on it and pressing so hard for that line. With but 2 yards for him and 4 yards for me he was confident of victory but with one last push and a well timed learned lean,  victory was mine, was my feeling but with everyone cheering for him this one time I had to pay off with popsicles from Lloyd and Gwenn's freezer or come away looking like a poor sport. Having run a few races over the years it is without equivocation the best race of my so far short life.  4.) My first day as camp counselor in 1966 we played a quiet game called " Black Magic" which over the years proved highly entertaining and provided  endless hours of fun for many children. Unfortunatley this being my very first go at itwas the first little disaster of the morning. Saved by swimminglessons we set off for the pol. UH OH we're 20 minutes or so to early, another mistake by the unit leader. OK, I've gotit! We'll do "Indian" wrestling, something I remember from my youthful playing days. Lying feet to head, hip to hip, each contestant raises their  adjacent legs up past  their opponents, once, twice, and on the third lift crossover, interlocking and trying to roll their opponent over backwards. Being unable to remember which guy got the worst of this Jeff and Nate, but I think Nate missed the leg lock and bashed Jeff in the mouth with his foot. Another disaster! Finally we're getting tonto the water. At least the Unit leader isn't in charge anymroe. Testing first. Those who know how to swim go to the deep end, those who don't to the shallow end. New York City Bobby, " do you know how to swim?"  "Yup!"  With the big boss Lloyd himself, standing right there, portly little Bobby hops into the deep end and goes under. He's verticle but swimming and pushing himself down negating his own buoyancy. Lloyd looks at me, I look at him and in an instant we're lying on the coping reaching for Bobby. We miss, we both miss again. My thought is if I miss him again I'm going in after him, but we both grabbed him on the third try and  lift him out. That was the begining of my first day at Holiday Hill Day Camp! Needless to say more than 11 seasons spread over more than 30 years it just got better and better.  5.) Trapoline. As they say in Hawaii, "no need" to say anymore."

( not little Bobby but another camper loving pool time!) Remember now is the time to get the best discount on this summers registration! Sign in before Jan.31 to save  on summer fun and Olympic sized memories! online registration at: http://www.holidayrecreation.com/

Black Magic How To: www.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid-20081115080744AAhnlUB

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