Camp Green Lane 100th Summer Blog Post June 25th
Hello, CGL family!
Only one more sleep (if your excited campers can sleep, that is!) until the greatest summer ever gets underway!
As we mentioned yesterday, this year is #CGL100, and we’ll be spending the entire summer celebrating Green Lane’s 100th birthday. To kick off this historic season, we’ve compiled a list of 100 things we love about our summer home.
Veteran campers will recognize most, if not all, of these traditions and memories. New campers (and their parents) can use this list as a preview of all the amazing moments still to come this summer and for years beyond.
So, without further ado, here are 100 things we love about Camp Green Lane, in no particular order:
- Seeing the CGL arch as the bus pulls into camp on the first day
- Running off the bus, into the Circle, and finding your counselors and friends standing under your bunk sign
- First lunch = Grilled Cheese!!
- The roar of cheers in the dining hall
- Counselor (Un) Talent Show
- Juice Squad
- Clinics
- Electives
- Cupcake Cones
- Steamy Day Schedules
- Dorney/Hershey Day
- Aw Shucks Corn
- Movies Under the Stars
- Bunk Plaques
- Camp-Within-A-Camp
- Bunko
- Girls/Boys Canteen
- Mooing for COWs
- CHIP Winners
- Paint Night
- Pizza Parties
- Pop Squad
- Bunk Party
- Camp Pizza
- Camp Dances
- Olympics
- Carnival
- Lip Sync
- CGL Idol
- Hearing the Survivor Music
- Fake Breaks
- Counselor Hunt
- Quads
- Pasta Bar
- Casino Night
- Night Swim
- Ice Skating
- Birthday Meal
- Blacklight Dodgeball
- Overnights
- Egg & Cheese on an English Muffin
- Soft Serve
- The smell of rain on hot blacktop
- Three Booms
- Sunrise
- Cookies at Juice Squad
- Soft Pretzels and Rita’s at Carnival
- Campfires with S’Mores
- The smell of a BBQ lunch
- Dining Hall dance parties
- The cargo net at low ropes
- Olympic torch run
- Carnival King & Queen
- Scavenger Hunt
- Clash Lunch
- Mealtime Mania
- Iron Pigs
- Path to Rhythm
- Inter Boys Polar Plunge
- Steeple Chase
- Rope Burn
- The Amazing Race
- Pudding & Watermelon
- Sing
- “And the winner of this year’s Color War is…..”
- Senior Boys Leagues Draft
- Midnight Madness
- Intercamp Games
- Singing Color War songs on bus rides
- Paper Bag Drama
- Getting Mail
- Rest period
- 10:00 breakfast
- Country Club Day
- Cake Boss
- Not Fade Away
- Greek Trip
- Send Me
- SunButter
- Picassos
- Panic!
- Pal Activities
- Watching fireworks on Cadet Lawn
- Kickball in the Circle
- Slip and Slide Relay
- Bucket Brigade
- Tire Pull
- Tugs of War
- All God’s Children
- Lake Inflatables
- Zip Lining
- Cabaret
- Awards
- Banquet
- Firefly
- Giggling on your best friend’s bed
- Red-rimmed eyes from sobbing in your friends’ arms on the last day
- Making memories that will last a lifetime
- Forming unbreakable bonds with forever friends
- Starting the countdown to next summer the minute you get home
And that’s just the beginning. We have so much in store for our campers this summer, we’ll be able to add 100 more things we love about CGL by the time we leave in August.
Enjoy your final family dinners and finish packing those bus bags… We’ll see you all at the buses in the morning!