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Need recs? Send your kid to Camp Greystone...

http://www.campgreystone.com/explore/people/

I jest, of course.

that font leaves something to be desired. I thought for a moment one of the girls was attending "Betty College."

Hey, it looks like you could do worse . . .

It's a pretty font to use for other things -- cards, signs, etc. -- but horrible for a website.

Oh, what I missed! Don't they have a camp session for grownups?!?

One of them goes to the same church as my aunt. :)

There were also KDs, GPhiBs, AOPi, AGDs, and a few locals. I was surprised to see alot of California people on the list (I believe they were all from Pepperdine)

wow-you're not kidding! i saw several samford girls and as my daughter is home, asked if she had heard of them-they're legit.

it looks like a lovely camp. as anchoralumna, is there grownup camp?

Eggs Benedict for Breakfast at Summer Camp! What the hell is this, Camp Four Seasons? We had dry cereal and milk at Summer Camp.

I went to a neighboring NC camp...Greystone is a very fancy camp for very fancy girls...mountain lakes aren't good enough for them...they need Olympic-sized swimming pools! Honestly my camp was perfectly good enough for me...and it was one of the posher NC camps, but not a pansy camp. Apologies if you went to Greystone...just a little good natured camp rivalry from a nearby Brevard-area girls' camp!

You want a REALLY fancy camp? Anybody here go to Waldemar in Texas? My MIL went there...they had a chamber ensemble playing at dinner every night. NO JOKE.

Googling Waldemar...

Check out Waldemar's "cuisine" page!

Also "Summer Home"!

From the website...

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1. She is prompt to meals.
2. She does not take a drink of water or tea until after the blessing is sung and all at her table are seated.
3. She helps with the passing of plates (using two hands) and is always attentive and responsive to the requests and needs of others.
4. She maintains good posture and does not put her elbows on the table.
5. She does not begin eating before the hostess does.
6. She eats slowly and chews with her mouth closed.
7. She does not talk with her mouth full.
8. She uses her silverware correctly.
9. She uses her fingers only for accepted “finger foods”.
10. She eats a reasonable amount of everything and not an enormous amount of one thing. She does not fill up on milk or gulp glass after glass of iced tea. This does not mean that she cannot have seconds on milk and tea.; it means she should be temperate.
11. She does not waste food.
12. She participates in conversation but does not monopolize it. She makes an effort to be an interesting and pleasant table companion.
13. She does not talk to girls at other tables during the meal.
14. She does not ask for food from nearby tables … nor take it.
15. She makes requests of the hostess, never of the waiter.
16. She uses “please” and “thank you” when requesting and receiving food.
17. She remains at the table until all have finished their meals and the hostess excuses the group. She does not act “put upon” because others have taken longer to eat the meal than she.
18. She realizes that if she is always the first one to “close her plate,” she is eating too fast and not contributing to the conversation.
19. She does not bring wet towels, tennis racquets, etc., into the dining room.
20. She does not complain about the food, turn up her nose or in any way express distaste.
21. She avoids whispered conversations that exclude other girls at the table.

And the website doesn't say how much it costs. I guess if you have to ask, you can't afford it.

CampChannel lists them at $901-$1000 a WEEK.

My BF's son's pre-school is $600 a MONTH! And that's considered expensive!

I actually wouldn't be surprised if it's more than that. I worked at a sleep away camp in the Berkshires in Mass. in college (as an aside, there were a LOT of greek women working there as well!) and the older the girls were the more activities they did outside of camp. The $1000/wk is probably the cost for just being at the camp and then the activity fees are on top of that. One of the parents told me that the oldest girls (15 year olds) could be over $20,000 for the summer... 8 weeks. Not cheap.

I remember my first week of summer camp was $30.

I just realized that one of my cousin's went to Waldemar and has sent her daughter here. Looks more like a finishing school than a camp where you would dig in the creek to catch salamanders.

I can't think of the name of the camp I'm thinking about but did it start with a P?

I went to Berkshire Hills Emmanuel Camp for a few years and we always made fun of that camp.

No, not a P. There are quite a few camps in that area. I think the one you went to was the more artsy/dance camp, right?

My great-grandfather founded a camp in Northern Minnesota that is mostly full of northeastern elite that goes approximately 4,000 a month. Sometimes higher, and that doesn't include the canoe trips and so on.

Belvoir? I worked at Danbee but had a girl whose sister went to that camp....I think maybe that one was the artsy/dance one now that I think of it.

Yeah, but pre-school doesn't feed the kids three meals a day (shrimp or not) or take responsibility for them 24/7.

Forbes: Money-No-Object Summer Camps

http://www.forbes.com/2007/04/26/cam..._0427camp.html

I loved my summer camp some of my best memories are from those years. . . But that article and this thread make me feel like i got just a bit short changed in quality. . .

Isn't Danbee in Hinsdale or Peru? Right off Route 143?

I'm up for adoption and have my bag packed for camp.

If you find a family willing to take 2 im packed and ready as well. . . Although 20 Grand for summer camp might be asking for a bit much. . . It's not like thats the cost of 2 years worth of my college tuition. . .

scratch greystone-i'm leavin' for waldemar!

I LOVE the picture associated with Weissman Teen Tours in that article.

I also wish I had the time and money and opportunity to spend a few weeks at Secret Agent Camp!

My daughter went to an AWESOME camp for 4 summers up in northern WI called Camp Birchknoll for Girls it was around $7,000 for 8 weeks (after extras like field trips,laundry, canteen $$ etc...) and worth every penny!! She loved it! The people who run the camp are the absolute best! She even loved the food!! lol I cried the first year I brought her up there thinking she would be so homesick and not make any friends (she didnt know a soul going up there at 11 years old) and she loved it so much she went back for years and still talks to many of the friends sh made up there! Most of the girls come from IL but they do have girls from many different states, and even a couple from different countries!

My friend’s family has been going to Camp Glen Arden since it opened. They do offer a camp experience for adult women called “Women of the Wilderness.”

My girls went to Skyland in Clyde, N.C. One reason I chose it was it was a little "funky" - the cabins weren't picture perfect, the Big House (where meals and the smaller campers stay) was a converted 19th century hotel, they swam at a swimming hole - but it's getting modernized, and isn't the same. :(
Hey - maybe my now-counselor daughter can get a job here in Texas this summer as a counselor . . . hmmmmmmm....

And I thought my camp was fancy for having brunch in your pajamas on Sunday mornings, with fruit trays, pastries, and hot chocolate...Oh, and when they built the bathrooms that had sinks with full countertops and outlets...I do not see how this can be good for young girls. Won't they then expect that total comfort is their due? Then when they get to college, their dorm rooms will have to be transformed into little palaces? And their first apartments outfitted by their parents? And then they're going to get married and be sorely disappointed in their newlywed lifestyle, unless they marry someone who can provide in the style to which they are accustomed (at the age of 25 or whatever?)...my children will be getting swimming holes...