Gimpie's night of nights!

Geez I have so much to write I have be lazy this week and not wanting to write much so its now Sunday night and I have lots to comment on.

Back to last week, the days seem to go by quite fast but we didn’t have the trip in the middle of the week to break it up so it seemed to go forever! Thursday was pyjama day so we just rolled out of bed and went to work which was good and comfy, that afternoon we had the finale of the Olympics which was a big tug-a-war between blue and white team, blue won. Then it was the campers vs. us counsellors, we totally under estimated their strength, mind you there was 30 of them and 7 of us and much to our disappointment we lost.

Not to sure if I have mentioned it in other blogs but these past few weeks there have been lots of warnings about the increase in the number of mozzies in the area, which all carry these 3 deadly diseases that can kill you! So anyways the town has cancelled sports training in the afternoons and games and things like that and recommended that you stay indoors if possible during dusk and dawn and that if you do have to go outside you need bug spray on. Anyways at camp they have this game called underground railroad which is based on the slaves from the south trying to escape to freedom. As counsellors we have to stand/hide in the woods and wait while the kids come along and pretend to be the slaves and us as the bounty hunters have to question them and try to obstruct them from passing but then eventually let them pass and they continue onto the next counsellor. The game keeps getting delayed because now the mozzie problem the town has decided to fly planes over us and spray insecticide over everything from 8pm-3am. The game is meant to be at 8 when its dark and when the mozzies are at their worst!! So as you can imagine we don’t want to play the game at all and plus we have to stand in the woods by ourselves at night, I hate all the animals here let alone being out there with the bears and coyotes!! So thankfully the game has been cancelled due to a thunderstorm and the spraying, but it may have to do it later this week –boo!

Nun net is still not working so every night last week we headed to the mall and went to border’s to use their free wi-fi. We get there around 8ish and they close at 9.30pm so its not much time but we discovered that once they close if we sit on the seats just outside the shop we can still get the net. So we must look like the biggest scabs sitting in the middle of a closed mall using our computers haha its just that we have to book things for New York and trying to get everyone organised is hard. A big thanks to Carly for telling me about megabus we managed to pick up tickets from Boston to NYC for $5. I have also booked a ticket from NYC to Toronto Canada as I have to exit and get my visa restamped. 2 nights in Boston after we leave camp onto NYC from the 19th to the 22nd. Up to Canada on the overnight bus arriving on the 23rd staying until the 26th and catching the overnight bus back arriving in NYC on Friday the 27th. One of the girls, Leigh, will already be up there and we’ll meet up and do Niagara falls and then come back together and meet up with the other girls in New York and then hopefully catch a US Open tennis match.

So Friday finally rolled around and it was time to go to ‘Canobie Lake Park’ an amusement park in New Hampshire. It was a pathetic version of wonderland only much smaller. Hollie and I had asked for the older girls so we could go on all the scary rides with them but alas no scary, fast, exciting or upside down rides in sight. The closest thing we got to fun was a small dome shaped building with a concrete floor and a really old, old rusty looking ride that even the organisers of Fisher’s Ghost would de-commission and plus it smelt damp like fermenting water in a basement – whoo hoo!

So back to camp and straight back to Borders! Thank goodness the week is over! Up early Saturday and off to the hairdressers yes! It was really good to just sit and relax with no kids. The salon was huge and they have 11 or 12 stylists! The owner Michael was there and was camp ass a row of tents, belting out tunes like ‘Barbie Girl’ and ‘Lover is in the air’. He then ordered pizza for us all which was great! So by 1pm we were done and got good old Boratski to come get us and take us to Plymouth. Went to Cabby Shack for a bevy and lunch. It was so funny, just as we had sat down this guy came over and started talking to us, saying hello like he knew us?? I then clicked that he was one of Weston’s friends whose house we went back to the other week and Hol chundered all over his suede lounge haha. All the other girls had no idea who he was and when he left looking a little sheepish that we had no clue who he was I burst out laughing telling the girls who also thought it was quite amusing.

After lunch we decided we needed a kip before our big night out. So we walked up to the liquor store and bought some drinks for later I got 5 drinks for 7 bucks –bargain! So Borat again took us back with our contraband and we all napped. We decided we would not eat out as it would cheaper and we all chipped in with the left over food we had bought that week so for tea we had a few BBQ Pringles and some chips – remember eating is cheating! Our drinks went down quite nicely and by the time Borat came to pick us up we were all quite merry, of we went with our rubbish so we could dispose of our evidence.

All of us girls went out except for Marie, she meet up with the guy she met and stayed with last Saturday, they went to P-Town, his name is Kevin and we affectionately call him Kevin Bacon which we think is quite funny, not sure she gets it though! So we headed for ‘East Bay Grille’ but it was so packed and no where to sit or even stand at the bar, we then headed over the road to ‘Water Front Bar’. One of the girls Nicky has kept in contact with one of the guys, Nathan, we meet in Boston a few weeks ago who was from Bondi, anyway he is staying in Connecticut and drove up to see her which was nice so he joined us there. It was great they had DJ Skip or Skippy as we renamed him dishing out the tunes and there was lots of people and dancing. There was still lots of oldies but we finally found the younger people of this town!

The dancing was so fun and we had our team mascot with us. A few weeks ago I ditched the bead table during activities and headed down to the nuns and the sewing table and decided I would make myself something. I settled on a stuffed bunny, I cut him out of some nice looking fabric, sewed him up stuffed him and walla! I decided he would become a she as she looked quite hippy round the edges and one leg was shorter than the other so she became known as ‘Gimpie’. When Verena saw her she said she looked like she was made out of grandma curtains so she is now know as ‘Grandma Gimpie’. While we were out she was a hit, everyone wanted to get their picture taken with her and let’s just say she was put in some very compromising positions. She may or may not have some type of disease after last night.

A good time was had by all and then it was closing time. Waiting for Borat we came across a group of guys with Harley’s so on jumps Leigh with ‘Grandma Gimpie’, helmet on and some lovely glasses to match and off into the night they ride. We assumed it was just a ride around the block but 15 minutes later still no Leigh and she hadn’t answered her mobile. Borat had come and gone because we were still waiting for Leigh. We had met some guys while we were waiting and Hollie was on the war path at one of them because he worked for the British tobacco company and was therefore responsible for lung cancer. In the meantime I was, as ‘Sarah from Wales’ so affectionately calls it, ‘necking’ a guy called Lucas who thought my name was Lola! Still no Leigh, but it had now been an hour and we had finally got a hold of her and she was in a town called ‘Plimpton’ which is a 60min drive on the highway, but it was ok because Grandma Gimpie was safe and had survived the bike ride. As it turns out the guys had a boy mascot doll back at their place and Leigh said they had quite a bit of fun together and there is photo evidence to prove it!

As Borat had gone home to bed we ordered a different cab and in pulls this big fat American guy that had no neck in a 4wd jeep, not enough seats so Kel and I were delegated to the back of the car which had a huge piece of 2by4 which the guy said he used to hit people with??

Next morning, which was today, everyone was a little foggy after getting in at 2.50am. Leigh turned up at 4am, Marie turned up at 7.30am and Nicky made it back at 9.30am after sleeping in the parking lot in Nathan’s car. Good times good times. Nothing to do as the kids didn’t come back till after dinner so we just hung around feeling sorry for ourselves.

Hol and I moved back into the dorms today-fun, but as a bonus we don’t have to go on the last trip this week and get the day off. I hope there are no little hiccups like I had last weekend when one of the girls went to the toilet and was using her Nintendo DS and she some how managed to drop the little stylus stick you use to touch the screen with, down the toilet. Great so I gave her some gloves from the kitchen and told her she needed to fish it out. She tried but to no avail. So being dorm mummy it was up to me, I thought about just flushing the toilet but didn’t want the dam thing to clog up. So of course when I peered in it wasn’t a nice little number 1 but a giant number 2! So all gloved up I dove in and had a good dig around and still no stylus ohh well its not there …..flush…..no blockages good lets move on.

While writing this I am sitting on the lounge watching a bloody mouse run up and down the pipes and along the walls! Oh I hate this place so much I can’t fall to sleep at night cause I’m scared I’m going to be gnawed to death by a pack of revenge full mouses!

Not looking forward to this week to much its counsellor day and then camper day. We get to do what we want to the kids dress them up, cover them in silly string, make them be our slaves whatever we what but then the next day they can do whatever they want to us which sucks!

Well good night and cheerio x