Session 3: The Chaos (During the Chaos)

Once a Summer, in the middle of the season, Chaos inevitably arrives at Camp.

At our opening campfire this year, I promised that the chaos would be completely contained in 2014. Now pranks, no hi-jinks, no unpredictability. 

This summer Chaos would simply be C.H.A.O.S (Calm, Hazard-less, Always Orderly, Serene.)

Guess how long that lasted.

Counselors dressed as other Counselors!

Counselors on Crutches!

Counselors renaming Camp after themselves!

Brooms with Faces!

Cars on the Flagstones!

Scientifically Exact Replica Solar Systems!

Early morning Chaos.

Well, those notes are foreboding. And not entirely accurate.

I hope these signs...

....Don't have any relation to these signs

And these campers are surely trying to stop the Halloween Chaos at the Office...

And not adding to it? Right? Right!!?

A DMZ Wall between the Boys and Girls Side of Camp!

This is not what the front of the Dining Hall is supposed to look like.

This is not how flag raising is supposed to go!

There should not be flamingos at the water front!

That better be a flag up that flag pole!

Yup. Wouldn't be Chaos week with things that are not flags up the flagpole.

Oh no. Who's sleeping on the lake in a classic summer camp reference.

Camp Director Jim! That's not where you sleep.

His alarm clock went off. Then he threw it in the lake. Really.

Oh, a bathrobe and a canoe. Maybe this morning won't be so bad after all.

Scratch that. A dip in the lake beats a cup of coffee though. (Kidding. Nothing beats a cup of coffee.)

Plastic wrapped cabins!

Girls braiding each others hair!

Oh, never-mind, that one's not chaotic, just adorable.

But where are the table legs!?

Where are the chairs!?

Lesson learned. Table legs and chairs are completely unnecessary for a pleasant camp breakfast.

And finally, once all the ruckus and madness was more than we could handle, we called in the Doctor Husqavarna (with his degree in Chaos-ology) to solve it all with his terrible Chaos Machine...