8/9 QOTD: Did you go to summer camp?

Did you go to summer camp? What is your favorite memory/story? If you didn't go to camp, do you feel like you missed out?

I didn't go to summer camp.  Back in "my day," I don't think they were as common as today because most moms were stay-at-homes.  I spent summers hanging out with all my friends so I never thought I missed out.  We went to the neighborhood pool all day and played kickball at night.  On Sundays, all of the families in my neighborhood would go to Newfound Lake for the day. 

I never went to summer camp. We lived in a neighborhood with lots of kids so it was like summer camp. I had the best dad - he taught many of the kids how to ride a bike, would pitch the ball to us, and he called a mean bingo game. I have great memories of my summers I think that's why summer is my favorite season. Oh and yes I am from the "back in the day" era as well

Summer camps weren't a big deal when I was a kid, but my parents did scrape together the money to send me to girl scout campt for a week one summer when I was 11.  My brother used to go to boy scout camp all the time, so I think they were just trying to be fair.

I really don't even remember much about it, except for when my parents drove me to the shopping center where the bus would pick us up to take us to camp.

I never went to summer camp either.  It was not very popular when I was a kid, but we were always doing something.  We had swimming lessons in the morning, then off with friends, either hanging out at the pool, or biking.  Oh those were the days!!!

I went to Camp Good News in Charlsetown NH.  I loved it.  It was utterly primitive compared to the camps my friends went to but we had a great time.  It was a essentially a  Baptist-based vacation bible school.  My folks were not religious so I think it was the price, $60 a week(!), that hooked them.  The religous stuff didn't stick for me but the experience was still wonderful.  I would beg my parents to stay for extra weeks.  Simple stuff like taps, swimming in the cement pool, crafts, field hockey, Mr. Peppers and the Big Tippee filled up the days and nights.  It was great.  It is still there, too.  I went to visit a few years back and they now have horse riding!  That did make me cry.  I would have given my left arm to have done that.  Otheriwise, it is still a very simple, rustic little camp.  And kids still get 3 - 4 doses of the bible every day.  Whether they need them or not!  Good stuff.