HP camp

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe <valerie.flowe at ...> 
wrote:
>
> My 8 year old girls just started 'Summer at Hogwarts' camp this 
week. 
> It's a 2 week day camp in the Northern Virginia area, sponsored by 
the 
> Brownies.
> My girls were hoping it would be at the Hogwarts castle (LOL!). 
It's a 
> regular camp, but sounds like so much fun; I wish I were young 
again or 
>   could take 2 weeks off my job to be a camp counselor! :-)
> Their version of Professor Dumbledore is named Professor Irish. She 
> greeted the kids wearing full length green robes with shamrocks on 
it, 
> and a matching sorceror's hat. (It's been 100 degrees F, yesterday 
and 
> today. Yikes!)
>   They get sorted into houses with the sorting hat.
> My girls' unit is called the Pygmy Puffs. They made cute little 
purple 
> pygmy puffs,
> then a magician came to entertain the 'school'.
> Today is 'Dress as your favorite HP character' day. I put non-
permanent 
> orange hair coloring on my girls hair, and they became "Georgina 
and 
> Frederika Weasley" (they are twins, but didn't want to be BOYS of 
> course!) One kid dressed as "Snuffles" with a great black dog mask; 
> another as the "Giant Squid" with tentacles all over her! I thought 
> that one was quite clever.
> They will also have "Bring your Owl to Camp" day; "Come as your 
true 
> Animagus" day. Now doesn't that sound infinitely more exciting than 
my 
> graphics job in the editorial dept. of a transportation 
> association!!?!! :-O
> 
> Now back to reality...sigh...
> Valerie

Wow that sounds like fun! And congrats on the girls' transformation! 
I never would have thought of that but it fits right in with the 
creative spirit of the camp! How much vacation time do you get and 
could you put in for it next year if they continue with this theme 
which I am sure will be enormously popular? We do go to great lengths 
to live out our favorite fantasy! As I remember, you were having a 
hard time getting to see GOF in IMAX but you did get there (if memory 
serves)! Long live a vital fantasy life!
Jen D. (contemplating my choice of animagus...)

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