Third Day at Camp was kind of a bust. We went geocaching, or at least started to geocaching. You know some camps don’t allow electronics. Both my GPS’s started acting up and then I came across another geocacher. My my new Texas Geocaching friend.

I’ve been asked if I put the water bottle there to show scale. Yeah, yeah, I do that kind of stuff, show scale, I mean. No, no, usually I turn around and show the snake my rear end as I leave them alone. Not for scale though.

Oh, I have to show you some of our camper’s cars. I think this one is a Ferrari:

And this one is an Aston Martin

You will notice that both of them are backed into the parking spots. So I hope the driver’s employers are happy.

That reminds me. There have been some John Travolta sightings around camp. Apparently he has snuck over to the Starbucks across the street to get some coffee every now and then. Now when he cannot afford the camp coffee, you know the prices have to come down. Do you think he owns one of these cars?

We had our Camp Banquet last night. I sat with my two favorite fellow campers. Sonja and her sister-in-law Sharley.

They are both a couple of sweethearts although they tried their best to not to show their disappointment when I explained to them a few days ago why Sweetie and SuperPizzaBoy were not at Church Camp this year. I’ll be seeing Sonja again at the Kansas Church Camp KIOGA in Wichita in August.

So I’ll be getting up, not so bright and early, and leaving Church Camp this morning. I am looking forward to coming back next year. I’ve been to this particular church camp every year but one since 1994. So I don’t want to miss it.

We are having an exciting time here at Church Camp. I’m noticing a lot.

Our rooms are well stocked with all sorts of refreshments. Its a trap though. You take one of these and it will cost you your entire stay’s canteen account. They are teaching us how resist temptation here at Church Camp. That’s always something worth learning. There are also movie’s available that some would say are not appropriate. Yogi’s company frowns deeply on paying for inappropriate movies. So does Yogi’s wife. Of course, Yogi can’t figure out how to even operate the television so nobody has anything to worry about.

Another thing is that I notice a lot of the following:

Everybody backs their car into parking places! Why, because the camper’s employers require it that’s why, even Yogi’s employer. Don’t ask me why backing into a space is safer than backing a car out a space because I don’t know!!! The big black oil companies like Exxon have been doing it for years. I laughed at them. Now, I’m feeling their pain. But I’m backing my car into spaces when I’m on company business.

Oh well enough of the whining and grumbling. We went on a field trip Sunday. We didn’t go to the Zoo or on a hike or to the movies or anything like that. We went to the nearby IKEA. I always though IKEA was a store. It’s not a store, it’s a church that worships cool looking Swedish Stuff. You can buy the stuff if you want.

It is not like other stores like Walmart you walk in and waddle around here and there. Oh no, not here. They have a route that you follow with big old arrows on the floor. They route past all they have to sell from lint brushes to refrigerators.

Everything is displayed very well. Take your camera.

They had mockups of a 275 square foot house (below), and a 375 square foot house (above) furnished entirely with IKEA furniture, cabinets, appliances, and fixtures.

And then I had a revelation. That’s important at Church Camp, that’s why you go, I mean besides, to get out of somebody’s hair. Why would we want such small houses? Because all our money is going to be gone that’s why. The Democrats think the government should have all your money and the Republicans think that Bank of America should have all your money. Either way, we are looking at houses in the 275 to 375 square foot range and filling it full of Swedish knick-knacks, because that is all we are going to be able to afford! So it doesn’t matter what party is in power really.

What do you think?

Look at all these beautiful pillows. The photo is marred by all the white tags. Don’t you think the pillows would look prettier without the tags? Don’t do it!! Unless you want to end up in another camp. One that is not so much fun.

These are all well meaning citizens who took the tags off. I mean can’t they read, “Don’t Remove by Penalty of Law” it says. You can see at Church Camp we are learning to be good citizens.

Some things at IKEA are not that good an idea. Like the above. To save the space the bathroom counter is not as deep as standard and to provide storage the mirror sticks out from the wall. The result is having to look at myself from six inches away in the morning. Not a good sight. I need my space from myself sometimes. I’m not the only one who wished they had more space from me.

I couldn’t bring myself to buy anything. I was just amazed and dazed by the displays.

Most of my fellow shoppers were amazed and dazed also.

If you wanted furniture, you took a number and then picked it out yourself at the warehouse at the end.

Talked about stuff stacked up high!! This was it.

Later on we were going to have a social out by the pool but just as the party got going the camp shut everything down. If there is lightning within five miles they suspend all outdoor events. Texans sure have gotten more effeminate since I lived there. In Oklahoma, we don’t actually stop a party for the weather unless the weather actually shows up.

So that’s all for Church Camp Day Two folks.