Visiting Day

Camp Committee Chair, Joe Ross, getting ready to donate blood

Today, after a relaxing Shabbat, everyone awoke excitedly for visiting day! Following our Sunday bagels and cream cheese breakfast, we got to work cleaning and making Galil beautiful. Before the morning work time (avoda) was over, we said goodbye to the campers (chanichim) who stayed three weeks. After cleaning, we were ready to receive all of our beloved visitors! Everyone greeted their guests and ate a lavish picnic lunch, or visited other families. It was a great time to catch up on what happened during the summer both at camp (machaneh) and at home.

After the picnic, visitors had a chance to come to the moadon and visit a fair displaying the skills chanichim learned and improved during their time in special skill groups (kishronot). During the day, we had another visit from the Red Cross blood donation-mobile, where visitors and other eligible volunteers donated blood; we had over 30 volunteers who donated enough blood to save over 60 people!

After the picnic and kishronot presentation, everyone was invited to the pool for free swim (schiya chofshit). At four, the chanichim said their goodbyes to the visitors and three-weekers, and relaxed and went to special interest groups (chugim) before dinner. Though most were still full from lunch, dinner was a tasty meal of pizza and other assorted leftovers. Tonight, we will play a huge machaneh-wide game of capture the flag and relax from today's excitement.

Keep checking back with the blog for the coming exciting weeks!