The Play

Andrew Z. and Kirk singing "You are my sunshine my only sunshine" Too bad it was red day and not yellow day!

The Greasers (Rachel, Cy, Gary, and Laura) were rocking it out in the "Camp Jabberwocky's rendition of the Labyrinth" by Zach and Brie

Margaret and Heather win the Fogy "copy my face" game and the sisters are allowed to pass.

"Oh fiddle-sticks I sneezed away all the fairy dust!" says Chris M.

Andrew W., Sam, Kyle, and Chris  as "The Doors" for one night only.

Becka and Keagan as the beautiful singing fairies, who happen to sing about angels. 

Fireworks and Ice Cream

I scream... you scream... we all scream for ICE CREAM!

An EXTRA special thanks to Mrs. Clarke & Mrs. Knower of Barneveld, NY for our delightful afternoon treat!

I'll cheers to that!

Susanna looks like a super sweet treat.

I'll take my banana split with some Peppermint Patty & Jack Fruit

Just warming up for the fireworks

Comfortable in our front row seats

The fireworks were unforgettable! Turned out to be a relaxing evening before our play finale tomorrow night at 7:30. Hope to see some of you here!

That's Fair!

This morning, a small group of us went sailing while the others stayed back for play practice and morning activities.

Here is a picture of Chris being a big help hoisting the sail. We would like to thank the people who invited us on this trip and made it such an awesome ride (I wasn't told their names, I was just told they might look at the blog).

Here are our drum artists preparing for their musical debut.

Margaret and Fogey are practicing playing the face game.

Gary gets ready to snatch the baby brother away.

Pottery allowed for a nice break up of the long and arduous task of play practice. Thanks, Brent.

After a long morning, we headed off for the fair. I tried to feature almost every ride in the pictures. Here is Jeremy looking unsure of his decision to try out this puke-machine.

Heather is enjoying the slide.

Emmy is showing how to ride the "counselor crusher" in perfect form.

Athena is letting her hair flow out on the Aladin ride, and no I did not spell that wrong.

After the fair some of us headed out for some nice moonlight kayaking, the pictures would be more moonlighty, but those didn't come out as well.

Illumination

This morning we woke to our normal activities for the first time in over a week. We started with music and then split up into small groups to practice for the play, play games on the hard top, and do pottery.

Here is a group rehearsing a scene that they wrote for themselves.

Another group practiced their rendition of "Magic Dance," which they sing better than Bowie.

Dave tries to play defense, but kevin is just too quick.

We also had an additional activity of corn shucking.

Then we went to the beach for a quick dip.

After dinner, we rushed off to the tabernacle concert before illumination night. When stars and stripes came on, Cy just couldn't control himself.

Gracie treated everyone to her version of amazing grace.

Here is our very own Mac playing in the band. I like to think of him as the Deus Ex Machina of camp.

Peter poses in front of the very first Jabberwocky house, in which 6 campers and Hellcat spent their first couple of summers together. Wow, how things change over 56 years.

Ok blog, lights out!

A Dreadful Tuesday

This morning, most of camp woke up and headed out for breakfast on the beach while a smaller group went horseback riding. Since we have more than enough pictures of Jabberwocky at the beach, I handed the camera to a colleague and asked him to take pictures of the horseback riding group.

Here are Amanda and Bobby showing good form.

Kevin really enjoys spending time with horses.

After riding, the group got to look around the barn. What a treat!

After breakfast and horseback riding, we had a quick, but entirely too hot, play practice. Things are coming together A-maze-ingly well.

We finished off the night with a special concert by the Grateful Dread, a cover band that takes Grateful Dead songs and puts a reggae spin on them.

We don't just sit and enjoy concerts at camp, we get up and dance.

Sammy shows off his air guitar skills.

After the concert we had a short game night.

Others choose to take a quick shower and shave before bed.

Just Another Manic Monday

Today we had a crazy day where we ran from activity to activity until we were all exhausted enough to pass out.

We started out with another pool party at the local country club, here is Daniel playing.

Gary Grove is prepping for the cool and calm waters.

Fogey and Jeremy are entertaining some guests.

Mr. T pity's the fool that won't swim with him.

As per Michael's request we had a quick dance practice before heading out to our next activity.

We rushed back to camp, changed our bathing suits and loaded up to go clamming.

Here is Andrew checking out a starfish... wonder if it feels clammy?

Next we went galumphing to the beach for drumming with Rick. Some of us took advantage of this trip to take a much needed rest break.

Some of our campers got in on the drumming to give some tips to the professionals.

Heather had a really good time just dancing.

We also had a very special guest visit us at drumming on the beach. We have all missed Nathan  and it was the perfect cherry on top of our very long day.

Sunday Funday

This morning, we slept in and took it easy. Some of us went to Grace Church for singing and delicious refreshments, some of us went to town, and the rest of us stayed back to prepare for the play.

Brandon, Andrew, and Adam skipped out on play prep to play some Monopoly. Collect $200 when you pass Go!

Athena and Tory spent a lazy Sunday morning relaxing in the hammock.

Later on, we headed over to the Leaird's for a cookout and some field games!

Hanging out with friends is always a favorite activity.

Sammy & Sam

Andrew, Andrew, Andrew, Andrew, and Andrew

The judges and race organizers, Bobby and Carina.

Chris M. teams up with Brook and Haley for a heated wheelbarrow race.

Wheelbarrow race, wheelchair edition.

We had a blindfold race, but most people chose to wear the blindfolds ninja style instead of over their eyes. Good choice.

After all the races we had an award ceremony... and everyone is a winner at Camp Jabberwocky! Adam won the "Cheeseburger in Paradise" Award for eating the most delicious looking cheeseburger. YUM!

Thank you so much to our generous hosts! We had a blast as always.