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, July 4, 2017

Camp Green Lane Summer Blog Post- July 4th

Happy 4th of July! Today has been a perfect Red, White, and Blue day. We started our celebration last night with fireworks at the Iron Pigs game and the display was spectacular!  Today we woke the camp up using the song “Party in the USA” for our first 10 o’clock breakfast.   Everyone got out of […]

, July 3, 2017

Camp Green Lane Summer Blog Post-July 3rd

Last nights Carnival dance was one of the best dances I have ever been to at Camp Green Lane! The DJ was amazing and everyone was on their feet dancing the entire night. We saw lots of kids learning new dances and just singing and have a great time with friends. We also crowned the […]

, July 2, 2017

Camp Green Lane Blog Post July 2nd

Happy Carnival day! Last night we had our Carnival Lip Sync and the theme was Jobs. All of the campers did such an amazing job but we could only crown 1 winner! The winner was the Cubs and Hyatt with their rendition of “In the Navy” and let me tell you, it was adorable! They […]

, July 1, 2017

Camp Green Lane Summer Blog Post July 1st

First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Rose Gersten and I am the camp mom. This is my first summer at Camp Green Lane. You’re probably wondering ‘what does that mean? The camp mom?’  When your children come into the infirmary, I am usually the first face they see- I am here […]

, June 30, 2017

Camp Green Lane Summer Blog Post-June 30th

Tonight we will be having our first Camp Green Lane Friday night services of the summer! For me personally this is one of my favorite evening activities. I think it is so nice for the whole camp to come together and celebrate what a fantastic first week we have had. It gives everyone a chance […]

, June 29, 2017

Camp Green Lane Summer Blog Post-June 29th

Last night we had our Greeks, Debs and Cadets do their first PAL activity of the summer! They were assigned their pals (again some had their same pal as last year if possible) and sent on a scavenger hunt all around camp. Some of the items on the hunt included finding out how many basketball […]

, June 28, 2017

Camp Green Lane Summer Blog Post- June 28th

Today we did not have just 1 special activity at Camp Green lane…we had 2!. The first one this morning was a new sport brought to camp called Quickball. The purpose of the game is to make softball and baseball more fun and move faster. The kids had a blast learning it! There were 3 […]

, June 27, 2017

Camp Green Lane Summer Blog Post-June 27th

Last nights’ Pal program was a huge success! All of the Senior Boys and Girls were given a card with their younger pals names on it. Then we sat back and watched as they found their new pal and instantly started to bond. I heard amazing conversations about how excited the new campers are for […]

, June 26, 2017

Camp Green Lane Summer Blog Post-June 26th

We could not ask for more perfect weather for the first week of camp! Everyone is outside and having a great time enjoying another beautiful camp day. Today started with our Group Leaders revealing the Carnival 2017 lip-sync theme! This year, each cabin will be paired up with another cabin and must come up with […]

, June 25, 2017

Camp Green Lane Summer Blog-June 25th

Today was the perfect day to start our daily schedule! We ran our first full day on our 7 day schedule- Someday. Just a reminder at Camp Green Lane, we do not use the days of the week, instead we use a 7 day rotation with our days called; Someday, Anyday, Oneday, Heyday, Sayday, Playday […]