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| We made it! |
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| It's Friday night. |
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| (Friday Night of our final session of 2016, none-the-less!) |
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| (Talking the last Friday Night of the summer!) |
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| And what does that mean? |
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| Well, it means it's like all our other Friday nights. |
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| Only a little more so. |
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| And what do all our Friday nights mean!? |
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| Friday nights are a celebration! |
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| A celebration of what, you ask!? |
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| (Okay, I'll stop with the rhetorical questions.) |
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| (I've just got a lot of pictures to get through, is all.) |
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| Friday nights are a celebration! |
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| Of a whole... |
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| Wild... |
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| Wacky... |
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| Fun-filled... |
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| Week at Summer Camp. |
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| Yes, a celebration... |
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| Of all the friends we've made... |
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| Fun we've had... |
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| and food we've eaten. |
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| A celebration of happy campers, |
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| Crazy counselors... |
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| And friendly, |
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| Funny, |
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| Full, |
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| Dining Halls. |
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| A celebration of... |
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| Jokes made over, |
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| Around, |
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| And about dessert. |
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| A celebration that... |
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| Brings us out of the Dining Hall... |
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| And into that cool... |
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| August... |
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| Evening Air... |
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| For... |
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| One more... |
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| Flag Lowering. |
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| A celebration that brings us... |
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| Down to the Lakeside Firering... |
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| For our evening entertainment. |
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| We start with, |
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| Our very own, |
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| Junkyard Band... |
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| Jamming out to an original... |
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| Camp composition. |
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| Then it's on to Dramatic Storytelling, |
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| Followed by... |
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| Our much anticipated... |
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| Weeks in Review! |
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| Where each of our groups... |
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| Sums up... |
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| The highlights of their week... |
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| Through performance... |
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| Rhymes... |
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| And songs. |
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| (Usually lots of songs...) |
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| (Like, lots of songs...) |
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| (Cause we love songs at Camp...if you haven't picked up on that...) |
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| And then we call up our CIT IIs! |
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| Our oldest campers, at their final Closing Campfire. |
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| (Final Closing Campfire as campers anyway.) |
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| Yes, these folks have been with us for summers and summers as they've grown up here at Camp... |
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| So we only think it's fitting, |
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| That each CIT II gets a tribute... |
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| From one of their counselors... |
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| Who know them best. |
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| Yeah. It gets emotional. |
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| Especially when counselors decide... |
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| A speech isn't enough... |
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| So they'll play an original song instead. |
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| See. |
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| Told you we love songs. |
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| As we reflect on the week... |
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| And talk about all we've metaphorically added to the Camp Spirit during our time here... |
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| We decide to literally add to the spirit as well. |
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| So, as we sing a song... |
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| (Cause...you know.) |
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| Each camper files out of Lakeside... |
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| And gets to throw their own... |
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| Small piece of wood... |
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| On to the fire. |
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| With it they add all the fun they've had... |
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| Friends they've made... |
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And good times they've each had...
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| With that, |
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| All of Camp heads up... |
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| To our Ceremonial Fire Ring. |
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| Y'see, a Friday Night Camp Celebration... |
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| Has several parts. |
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| When our campers reach Ceremonial... |
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| They are greeted with a Lantern... |
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| Holding the very same flame from the campfire they all just contributed to. |
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| The new Camp Spirit... |
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| That will be used to light all future campfires... |
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| Here at L.G. Cook 4-H Camp. |
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| A Camp Spirit that now belongs to... |
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| Each and every camper here... |
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| Because each and every camper... |
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| Helped create it. |
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| And since that flame, that fire, that spirit... |
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| Is the property of every camper here... |
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| It doesn't seem quite right to keep it locked up in a Lantern quite yet. |
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| It seems a bit more right... |
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| To spread that light around. |
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| This way we can see exactly how brightly a kind, caring community... |
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| Where everyone belongs, everyone has a home, and everyone plays an important and vital part... |
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| How a brightly a Camp community like that... |
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| Can shine out, and light up the darkest corners of the darkest forests. |
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| How a Camp community like that can accomplish anything... |
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| And always be there for you when you need it... |
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| And be waiting for you right where you left it... |
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| When you return next summer. |
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| It's a nice thing to be reminded of... |
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| (Especially in such a lovely, dramatic, visual fashion...) |
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| On a dark evening on what just happens to be our last night together of the week, and of the season, and of the Summer of 2016. |
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