We have a much larger number of campers this session than we did last session, and as a result camp is slightly more hectic, but lots of fun nonetheless! We had the first excursions of this session today, some were changed because of the weather but they all went well. The Four year olds took the boat from Coppet to Nyon port and then spent the rest of the morning at the Nyon playground. Some of the Seniors and the Six year olds were supposed to go to Nyon piscine this morning, but instead went to the Natural History museum in Geneva. The groups in the afternoon were lucky enough to go to the indoor pool in Varembe this afternoon, so between the Pool, the museum and the bowling in Gland this afternoon, it was a really tough day for the seniors, how do they put up with it? As if that wasn’t enough, I’m sure they’ll all be partying hard at PALEO this week so hopefully they won’t be too tired by Friday …

We were lucky to have a visit by a famous magician, Chris Corn, who has been on a lot of American TV talk shows.  Chris timed his visit perfectly to coincide with the rain and entertained all the groups on site during the day.  Exactly how he managed to do those tricks l have no idea, simply amazing.  Look out for his name in the future.

The Eights went to Trelex today, and apart from a run in with some disgruntled bees, everything went smoothly. We are speculating at this point that the bees were unhappy with our efforts to build huts for the Fairies of Trelex, who as everybody knows are the arch enemies of the bumble bees! However our intermediates are a brave bunch and construction will go on! The other groups were doing activities on campus, dance, drama, and quite a few groups made cups (or rather decorated them) in our Glazy Days Pottery class, we have pottery on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and the campers normally get their dogs back on Friday after they’ve been fired in the kiln.  

We have a couple of reminders for parents. Firstly if you pick up your child from camp we advise you to use the top parking area.  Although a little further to walk it is a lot safer than the lower parking as the camp buses are loading at this time and there are only a limited number of places. Please drive slowly.  We are expecting sunny weather for the next few days and it would be a big help if your children have a high factor sun cream with them as well as a water bottle and cap. 

Finally, our last day of the session Friday August 3^rd is a special day at camp based on the theme of ‘Fairy Tales’.  We cordially invite all of you to camp from 14:45 to see some performances by the children.  Camp will end at the usual time.

	Lunch Salad Buffet Chicken curry Creole rice and summer vegetables Vanilla cream dessert
Partially sunny, then rainy later on