It was a fantastic day at Camp Chen-A-Wanda. Auditions for girls were held today for our production of High School Musical 2. There was a big turnout and it looks as if this show will be a huge hit. The boys are looking forward to their auditions tomorrow.

Tryouts for Wayne county teams continued and practices are underway.

Hobby, our elective program for the campers, was in full swing today. Campers were flying off the water trampoline, swinging from the trapeze and hitting homeruns.
The Inter girls were the first campers to utilize our fabulous new cooking facility. They baked both chocolate chip and cinnamon raisin cookies from start to finish. They even cleaned the dishes!!! The delicious smell spread throughout camp and everyone can’t wait to cook tomorrow.

Tonight our evening activity was Camp Chen-A-Wanda’s Deal or No Deal. Just like the TV game show, we offered a variety of prizes and those lucky chosen camper contestants, Abigail Nussbaum, Adam Heimowitz, Nicole Guttenberg and Jacob Metzger called “DEAL” and won some fantastic prizes, including an ice cream party, $20, a pizza party and TV in the teen center.
As the night ends and all our campers are sleeping safely in their bunks…we can’t wait to start it all over again tomorrow.

It was a fantastic day at Camp Chen-A-Wanda. The sun was shining and the kids were out playing and having a great time. All the kids took their swim test and passed with flying colors.

We had a full day of tryouts for both boys and girls that included soccer, baseball, lacrosse, basketball & softball. There were big turnouts and it looks as if Chen-A-Wanda will have some excellent teams playing this summer. All kids who tryout make the team at C-A-W!!!

The Official First Friend event was held today. All of our “Littles” met with their “Bigs” and played games and got to know one another better. It was great to see the older campers embrace and share their wonderful stories and experiences with our newest Chenny campers. This helped make the new campers feel welcome, connected and excited to be at Camp Chen-A-Wanda.

Tonight’s evening activity was comedian magician Michael Kent who dazzled the campers to a fantastic magic show. He performed great tricks that have the campers still baffled as to “how’d he do that?”

It was great day and we all can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings.

We had a fantastic first day full of games, ice breakers, relay races and time getting to know one another. The kids were off and running as soon as they stepped off the bus. The sun shined here at Camp Chen-A-Wanda and there was a buzz in the air that this will be a very special summer.

We introduced our head staff at evening activity and showed a video montage of summer 2008. The returning campers loved to watch highlights of last year and the new campers loved to see what is in store for them this summer.

We have a new tradition here at camp in which we honor those who have dedicated there summers to Camp Chen-A-Wanda. Campers and staff who have spent 5, 7 and 10 years received special gifts from us. The campers were so surprised and felt extremely special. Exactly what our goal was!

All in all, it was day full of smiles, laughter and making new friends. What a great way to start summer 2009.

The buses are here and we are excited to start another amazing summer here at CHEN-A-WANDA! Pictures will be posted this evening!

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Orientation week has been going fantastic and our staff are fully prepared and excited to start the summer. We have been having an amazing week full of seminars, games, and presentations. We have the best and most enthusiastic staff ever!!! Everything is unpacked and the bunks look amazing. Now all we need is for the campers to arrive.

Make sure to check the blog for bus arrival.

Make sure to check out the web site for all our 1^st day pictures. They will be posted tomorrow night.

See you at the bus tomorrow morning.