“Learn from the past, live in the now, hope for the future”.
Today we went way off piste as British and American (B&A) broke out. The raising of the flag at 9.40 was interrupted by the king of England (aka Toombs) making a speech from the top of Wasserman Hall. He explained that the tyrant (Jason) was to be deposed by the many people of the world that reside withing the Menominee camp grounds. We had a big group from Mexico; a group from Hungary and eastern Europe; UK residents that included Scotsmen and Irishmen, and even an Israeli. It was an impressive group, but a group that simply wasn’t strong enough to resist the American force raised against them. Jason was duly freed from his brief captivity, and B&A was officially underway.
To start the competition we had the captain’s duels on the shuffleboard court. Each team have a number of age-group captains, and it is they who face off against each other armed only with a balloon filled with water. To make it more fun, we managed to get the XL balloons this time out. This made for some very wet duels. After much dueling and shouting for “one more balloon”, it was the British who came out the ‘dryest’ by a score of 3 to 2. On what might have been one of the hottest days of the summer thus far, we all but ordered everyone to jump in the lake afterwards. The waterfront was simply the best place to be.
This afternoon we came to game number two in the B&A competition, D-Day. This involves more water, only this time it was contained in a plastic squeezy bottle. The idea is that each team battles the other in their respective attempts to get up into the cabin area from the beach, without anyone getting killed. I’m happy to say that this was achieved. Indeed, not one drop of blood was shed in this endeavour. One hour was set aside for this game, and by the end of it, the American’s had won. So that ties things up nicely at 1-1 going into Revere’s Ride tonight. The boys are just in Wasserman Hall playing Cabin Feud, but they will soon emerge into the darkness to engage, once again, in some B&A action.
Tomorrow is the big day – July 4th – the day that us Brits celebrate the fact that we managed to rid ourselves of that ‘troublesome colony’. Haha. I’m hoping that we will get some rain before then, as parts of camp now resemble a dust bowl. It has been, and continues to be, very dry.
America is 247 years old, and all is well, so safely rest.
Goodnight everybody.
As ever…WOODY!
