Well, it's been a crazy summer and I promise I will tell you all about it. But for lack of time it will be out of order. Starting with my shitty week at MKW. Yea, that's what I said, never thought I would, but it happened. This is the story from Lauren (Lucky)'s point of view. I think she said it well. And if I tried to do this, I was lose track of what I was saying and cuss somebody out.... so here it goes:

Sunday went out there. Did luggage.. ick. Saw Jessie and Melanie.. yay! Got a tent with them. In Raccoon Run. With the brownies (5-8 year olds). Lovely. Actually they were cute. It was the brownie counselors like Care Bear that were stupid. She yells at them all the time. It's sad. So.. yeah it was the three of us in one tent and the three other cits in another tent.. Mebes, Key and Person. Yeah, Person. Whatever. Melanie still doesn't have a camp name. Jessie is always Shakes though! Mebes was like the only other cit I liked. The others were stupid. Ick.

Monday we got Sunny. Our new counselor. Oh gosh. She's 18 so pretty close to our age and she's like the stereotypical girl scout. That sounds awful but it's true.. aghh she drove us crazy. She came that morning.. Well I had just tripped outside of the infirmary when she and the other cits went to the arts and crafts house. So I had to go get a bandaid and she knew I was going. So I quickly got one for my bloody knee.. I hate tripping.. and then I walked back to arts and crafts on the trail by myself while they went on the road.. it's pretty much the same distance and I could see them just a little ahead. Well when I got there, they were just getting there also and Sunny told Turtle (another one of our counselors sort of.. but she's like a real adult) that I had "taken the trail by myself". And they like called on the radio looking for me or something... ? And I was with them at arts and crafts the whole time...? So yeah I got in trouble I guess. Whatever. So then we made firestarters and did other stupid stuff like that that counselors usually do... and they made sure throughout the week to tell us we weren't counselors or staff, we were campers. Which I don't mind. It's when they treat us like the 8-year-olds when I mind.
Monday night we snuck out.. at like midnight. We walked around the lake on the fire trails and paths. I was stupid and wore flip flops without thinking. Yeah and uh those firetrails are like flooded. Muddy. Ickkk finally after turning around we found a path that wasn't flooded up to our knees. We eventually got to Turkey Run.. just sat there and chilled and remembered. :) Walked to Eagle's Roost and then Shady Oaks... ♥ the whole West Side was closed this week so that was good.. but S.O. was used last week so there was still like food and stuff in the fridge. Took some yeah. Haha. Then went to West Side Water.. ahhh it was great on the dock. Jessie, being the incredibly brave girl she is, took off her clothes so she was just in bra and underwear, and got into the lake. The one that's been closed for over a year because of gators/bad water clarity. At night. Ahh scary. She swam to the floating dock and then came back because I was scared for her. Haha. I'm always scared. Then we walked back to our unit but when we passed the infirmary and Turtle was awake in there on the computer.. at like 2:30 in the morning. So we had to like sneak past a fence and behind the program shed and in some bushes and it was kind of annoying but it worked. We got back and went to bed.

Tuesday.. we found out that we were supposed to set up the sock hop and haunted house for the halloween theme.. and we talked about the brochure. That was like our session focus.. creating next years brochure and coming up with ideas for it. Got into a huge argument with Key and Person and Sunny about it.. like presenting it.. whatever. They were all paranoid and Person was talking about how she had ideas and we weren't including her or something and she couldn't tell us her ideas or write them down because she didn't know how to word them.. and we were supposed to be able to pull her ideas out of her head or something... agh I don't know. We all go so frustrated and upset with each other and Jessie was sick and Sunny had a talk with Melanie and I about how we were "dominating the conversation" or something.. but it was only because the others were super quiet and we had to. Ahh. She we were kind of mad at Sunny. And plus we talked to her and Rig about our CIT concerns.. like how things have changed so much and how we don't really like it.. but they said it would be "inappropriate" to bring up at the final brochure presentation. Things we miss like 4th of July and our cit freedoms and whatever. Tuesday night we were too tired to do anything.

Wednesday we went to the lake in the morning which was fun.. when the brownies weren't hanging on us every second. Set up the haunted house. It was cool, set up the chairs like a path thing on the porch next to the lodge and hung papers as walls that were black and red and it was dark and scary and hot. The only not-fun part was being with the psycho arts and crafts lady, Twiddlebug. I was a scary person. Haha at lunch I was talking to Spike about what I should be and she said I should be a counselor. And I said I wanted to be something scary. And she said I should be Rig. Hahaaa and I said that I didn't want to scare the little children too much. Ha it was funny. So I actually was a counselor.. a dead counselor. For my costume, I wore a staff shirt and my face was painted all pale with black eyes and blood and I had bandaids and it was pretty cool. I layed in a "coffin" (pushed together uncomfortable chairs) and popped up to scare kids as they walked by. I screamed things like "where's your buddy" and "go to bed". Normal counselor things. Spike told everyone I was dead Rig though. Haha. It was fun to scare the kids.. It was great.. the Skeeter Holler counselors- Spike, Coda, Slinky and Eleven were the ninja turtles!!! Haha they were like each one and had the right weapons for each one and had shells and everything. They had a battle with the Fantananas and totally won. Haha. Wednesday night we snuck out again and went to Skeeter to hang out with the cool counselors. They had a video tv and were watching a ninja turtle movie. Haha I haven't seen one in about 10 years. It was great. We chilled there and were thinking about pranking them but fell asleep instead.

Thursday we did some ropes course. Loco came to work it! It was exciting talking to her. She told us like Rig or Sunny or someone told her that she "spoiled us last year because they can't control us now" ahh stupid. Last year was the best thing ever. But yes... I climbed up the inverted hard wall!! I was so proud. Haha. Zipped down.. always fun. Then we worked on the stupid brochure.. and by this point we were all sick of it. Katy came and picked up Loco but she wasn't really allowed to be there because she couldn't work so we couldn't really talk to her... ? But I got a really long e-mail from her today... we found out our unit.. Raccoon Run.. brownines had to sleep in the lodge for the night and we had to also. Ughh. We didn't want to because... a) we wanted to possibly sneak out and prank skeeter, b) we didn't want to sleep with little kids c) the lodge is filthy and d) the floor is hard and uncomfortable and the lodge is freezing cold at night and e) it was our last night at mkw!!!! We wanted so badly to stay in tents. Mebes did too and Key and Person kind of didn't care... They were all like "but it's hot and there are bugs".. you can be in the air at home. This is camp. Person would like talk on her cell and always complain and stuff and she had absolutly no faith in herself.. she would always say on the phone how she flirted and how guys liked her and all kinds of crap. We were all sick of her. Anyway, we were sooooo upset about having to stay in the lodge. We brought it up with Sunny at dinner but she said we would talk about it later. She talked to Key and Person later and listened to them. Sunny said she didn't want to be the only counselor in our unit... or whatever. We were sooo mad. We packed our stuff and Jessie and Melanie were like planning ways to get kicked out of camp and whatever because they were so mad. They said it was like their last year so.. but we got our stuff and dragged it to the lodge and went to the campfire. When we got there I told Spike that we were so mad. Someone suggested that we stay with them in Skeeter. They said it was fine and Sunny agreed too! We were super excited. A good ending to a bad week. Plus Skeeter has the best people. We sang a bunch and Jessie read the MKW Earth Maiden story that Baby had faxed over because I wrote to her that we didn't have it and Melanie and Mebes and I did the flag burning ceremony. Then as everyone left, the 4 of us sat on the peaceful dock with Spike. I liked it. We went back to the lodge to get our stuff to bring back to Skeeter. Then we went back into R.R. to get our bathing suits to go in the lake! Since the Skeeter 4 are so cool they kind of let us.. so we set up our bedding and whatever in Skeeter and it was so awesome. We then went down to the lake.. and it was cool because Skeeter was the only unit not in the lodge. Jessie and Melanie jumped in while Mebes and I finished freezie pops. I had just taken off my clothes and was in my bathing suit when Coda comes running down the path from Skeeter to the lake. She's like "GET OUT! YOUR COUNSELORS ARE LOOKING FOR YOU IN OUR UNIT!" Except she liked whisper-screamed it. So we were kind of freaking out.. so we got out and threw our clothes on and Spike led us to Raccoon Run and was like "ok.. so we are going to say you were in here pranking.." so we got out of our bathing suits quickly and went back to Skeeter. Eleven was there and Spike just kind of said we were pranking.. but Sunny, Dimples (the UL from our unit who had just come this week) and Deja (another counselor, Dimples' friend) were there. Dimples was like "well, I was told this was a unit sleepover and we wanted our whole unit to be there" and whatever. We were sooooo mad. The Skeeter 4 said they kind of like busted into their unit and looked through girls tents and stuff looking for us while they were trying to sleep.. I did not want to go back to the lodge. I started crying I was so upset. We had to pack up our bedding while Sunny and Deja watched us. Slinky was funny she was like "you guys don't need to be watching them like they're 12" but we were all so mad. Melanie started arguing with them and I was glad and she was screaming and her and Jessie decided to go home. They walked to the infirmary and Mebes and I went back to the lodge. We didn't really hear anything until they came back later and said bye. It was extremely sad. What a dissapointment. Wow.

Friday.. gosh we were still mad about the lodge. It was awful. I love Skeeter though.. the 4 of them came to breakfast with like foam mustaches and duct tape magnifying glasses (like detectives) and Slinky had a sign on her shirt that said "Where are my CITs?" Hahaa I loved it. They said they were totally defending us. They hated the other counselors just as much as we did. Ahhh.. we finished the brochure and whatever.. then had lunch. Melanie came back after that! She just wanted to come for the last day.. but Jessie didn't want to. We gave our presentation and did pretty well. Considering the drama. Gold Rush was all camp.. Melanie and I were sheriffs and got to arrest people. Yes. We had cool squirt guns also. That was probably one of the most fun parts of the week. And when we had to fill out our evaluations. YES we wrote some great stuff about awesome Skeeter counselors and how we hated being dragged out of Skeeter in the middle of the night for no good reason. I didn't even get to go into the lake. I was so close. It's kind of sad. At least Rig and them didn't find out about how we were in there.. they just thought we were out pranking and that was one of the reasons as to why we were so upset to leave. I just said everything has changed. You don't understand unless you've been at mkw before. It's so different. Less people, less freedom, less staff, no Baby or Loco or Katy or any of the mkw originals. Well we said goodbye and things like that.. I didn't cry. That made me sad. That I didn't cry. I'll be back Sunday to drop off Rachel and Melanie might volunteer on her day off of work next week... I hope so. When Madeline and I were volunteers we hung with Skeeter and it was just cool. I want to go back. Then again, I don't.

I love you so much Lucky! Thanx for this. I will add more from my summer later.