Yesterday morning, the sleepy chanichim (campers) were woken up by the ram kol (loud speaker) announcing that it was Yom Yisrael (Israel Day), and that we were going to meet in the city Eliat, aka the chadar ochel (dining hall), for a celebration. Yet, as everyone finished breakfast, our Merakez Techni (Technical Director) Josh, announced that it was not actually Yom Yisrael, but the Kupa Trip instead.
Every session we take our chanchim on one very special outing that we call the Kupa Trip, which is easily one of the most anticipated days of each
session. The nature of the trip changes from year to year, from the classic dinner and a movie to a day in an adventure park. Yesterday was much closer to the latter-- we loaded all of
Machaneh (Camp) Galil on to the buses, and sent them up to Camel Beach, a water park in the Poconos.
As the chanichim entered the park and saw literally a mountain full of water rides and slides, they were more than over-joyed, considering the sweltering heat we went through over the past week.
There we spent the day just going with the flow on rides like the lazy river, or sliding down and a round at full speed on rides like The Vortex, which can be best explained like the flushing of a toilet. Bathroom humor aside,
The Vortex was definitely the fan favorite.
And to all of you concerned friends an family out there, everyone was adequately sun-screened.
Upon arrival back to machaneh yesterday evening, everyone enjoyed a shower, baked ziti, and a machaneh-wide movie night. Now we await shabbat, the rain and another exciting week to come.
...Check out and Shabbat Shalom
M.C. SHMOLLY
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