The Right Summer Camp

Every year we go through the ritual of picking the right summer day camp for Margot. It's a very 21st century thing to do because day camps were a lot rarer amongst my circle of friends when I was growing up.

It's probably a byproduct of there being more two-income families now. Originally, we focused on something that exposed her to different things. Now we're a little more discerning and try to get Margot involved in selecting her camps (we usually aim for four one week camps per summer) Anyways, here's a list of the summer camps Margot has gone to over the last few years:

• Dance Camp (3 different schools): the School of Dance (twice), Making Moves, Greta Leeming Studio)
• Multi-sport camp - Carleton University: Margot's favourite part was the cafeteria.
• Fashion Design Academy (a.k.a. sewing camp)
• Agriculture Museum (one cooking camp and one farm camp)
• Tennis camp (2 different camps)
• Art camp (One with National Art Gallery and the other with the Ottawa School of Art)
• Yoga camp (3 times)
• Girl Guides camp - Camp Woolsey: her least favourite camp and faaaaar away.
• Gymnastics camp (1/2 day)

The Artist Showing off her Wares

Coming up: Pioneer camp and one of the tennis camps.

According to Margot her top three camps are: her most recent dance camp (Greta Leeming Studio), yoga camp and her most recent art camp. Hmmm, a little biased towards what she's just completed. I think these may be the ones she remembers most right now!