Girl Scout Camp!

We dropped Fer and Wendy off at Camp Hoover last Sunday -- Fer had been counting the minutes and I have to say had also been very gracious and cooperative considering that all her friends from school went to camp in early July while she was back in South Orange doing a math class and swim team, neither of which is totally her cup of tea. She is pretty amazing. Wendy had planned to go with a friend for her first week doing gymnastics but the friend's registration got messed up and so she went on her own. This didn't become clear until the morning we left, so we just carried on and hoped for the best. Their letters home were . . . interesting. Fer's was addressed to "Dear Parents" and consisted mainly of questions about our care of Snowflake though she did say that Everynight Live (her program, in which they get to stay up late and sleep late) is "really really fun". Wendy's contained only a request to come home overnight on Saturday, no sense of how her program is but we infer that at least when she was writing to us she was missing us and the pets. Both of them are really attached to the animals -- Wendy spends tons of time with both Happy and Brownie, and the night before they left I went to check on Fer to see how her packing was going and she was standing in front of Snowflake's cage holding a sign she had made that read "Dear Snowflake, I will be gone for 2 weeks and I will miss you so much and will think about you every day. Be good! I love you!! Love, Mommy (Fer)." I wish I had taken a picture, it was the sweetest thing ever. We got to see some photos during the week and it looked like Fer was having a great time, a bit harder to tell with Wendy. We visit them tomorrow so we'll see!