Greetings all you blog followers! Our sincere apologies for the low number of blog posts this session. We can't seem to get our satellite internet to work 100% of the time. There are a lot more minute-by-minute updates available at twitter.com/campgreentop. Here are a few highlights from the past few days:

Nick and Garrett play around on the Greentop after dinner.

Carly and friends chill out in the moonbounce at the Visitors Day carnival.

B2 and B3 practice their line dancing at performing arts program.

Brian and Ronald enjoy the sunshine and the water.

Rashad and Romalis stop for the camera at a fashion show evening program.

The Session Begins...

Greetings all you Greentop followers! We have had a busy couple of days so far- packed with nonstop fun! Here's a quick update on yesterday:

Arts & Crafts - Bracelets

Nature - Grass Heads

Pool - Ring Toss

Sports & Games - Parachute Games

Performing Arts - Favorite Songs Sing-A-Long

Horses - Horsketball

A2 an D2 were the winners of the cleanest cabin awards yesterday so congrats to them!

Yesterday's program award winners were:

Arts & Crafts - Dimitri Mitropoulos

Nature - Laura Foster

Pool - Brittani Sluzalis & Najee Petty

Sports & Games - Billy Armstrong & Maggie Breschi

Performing Arts - Alex Willis & Ethan Klima

Horses - Nate Kornreich & Rashad Jasmine

Last night's evening program was a pajama party, complete with a bedtime snack and even a PJ fashion show!

Laura and Lorraine show off their dance moves at last night's pajama party.

Amy paints Conrad's face at evening program.

Richard teaches everyone some new dance moves in the rec hall.

Nikki and Brian smile for the camera in between stations at evening program last night.

Time Flies When You're Having Fun!

It certainly has been a busy few days up here on the mountain. We've had really nice weather during the days and rain the past few nights. Since the last post, we've been on trips to Toby's Dinner Theatre (to see Oklahoma!), a cruise around the Baltimore inner harbor, Pizza Hut, the Catoctin Zoo, and right now a group is at the bowling alley in Frederick. Tomorrow's trips are to the Mason Dixon Dragway and then to the movies in the evening.

Travel camp got back from the Outer Banks yesterday and the League Pioneers headed home this morning. We still have a few more days of fun up here at main camp, though. Here's a few pictures from the last couple of days!

Danny, Ben, and Ami make picture frames in Arts & Crafts.

Terry and Mia enjoy s'mores after the campfire last night.

Everyone enjoys the craft project at nature program.

Eric and Judy catch some rays in the pool today.

Back Up & Running!

Greetings all you new followers from Session 4! Our internet troubles lasted longer than anticipated. But the good news is that we are back to normal and will be blogging MUCH more regularly. Remember you can also keep up with camp on Twitter.....even if you don't have your own Twitter account! Just go to www.twitter.com/campgreentop and see what's going on.

Sally and Elizabeth break it down at the dance Saturday night.

Here's a quick recap on the session so far: We've taken trips to Adventure Park USA, the Hagerstown Suns baseball game, the Discovery Station Museum, the Ott House Pub, tubing, and an outdoor concert at Baker Park in Frederick. At the moment, over half of camp is at Charles Town Races & Slots, enjoying the outstanding buffet and [hopefully] winning some bets!

One bus loads up for the trip to Charles Town.

Our weather here on the mountain has been quite mild for this time of year. We have also had some storms over the past few days. Luckily, the storms have mostly been at night so we haven't had to change many of our plans.

C Unit shows off their concoction from the Iron Chef evening program on Monday.

For those of us back at camp tonight, we spent the evening watching the movie Hook before an evening snack of ice cream.

Early tomorrow (Thursday) morning, the group going white water rafting will hit the road for a fun-filled day on the river.

As for the League Pioneers, they've been busy hiking, fishing, swimming, cooking, crafting, and canoeing...among other things.

Jesse and Jacob enjoy an underwater photo shoot at the pool. :)

Eric, Bryan, and Norbert enjoy the lake at Cunningham Falls State Park

Internet Woes

Our apologies for the lack of blog posts this session. Apparently one of the wires that connects our sattelite to our wireless router was cut during some repairs at the barn. We are working on getting that replaced ASAP. We wanted to update everyone briefly and let you all know that things are going great here at camp.

So far we have taken trips to Pizza Hut, Charles Town Races and Slots, Ott House Pub, Bowling, Toby's Dinner Theatre, Pryor's Orchard, and a Frederick Keys baseball game! Back here at camp we have been busy with tons of fun programs, Singing Catch Phrase, a dance, a movie night, and a campfire.

We hope to have photo updates when we get the internet becomes a little more reliable and we have enough bandwith to upload them.

Feel free to give us a call if you have any specific questions or concerns. (301-416-0801) We are able to update more often at www.twitter.com/campgreentop. Otherwise, we'll hopefully be blogging more regularly right here!

Talent Show Update

Yesterday was such a busy day full of fun and friends.

Yesterday's program award winners were:

Arts & Crafts - Jeremy Mamlet & Kevin Bender

Nature - Alex Gordon & Tyler Cumberland

Pool - Matthew Berger & Joey Calla

Sports & Games - Emily Hartung & Rasneet Singh

Performing Arts - Anthony Sesto & Alec Chase

Horses - Mickey Mund and Cat Pillot-Olive

Congratulations also go out to A Unit for winning the Golden Plunger yesterday!

Michaela sings to Kurt at the sing-a-long in performing arts yesterday.

Joey and Amy wait patiently for the talent show to begin.

May and Julianna break it down during A2's performance of "Bring it All Back."

The boys of D3 perform a Michael Jackson tribute.

Carly and Renee dance to 'Cotton Eyed Joe.'

Friday Morning

Happy Friday!!! We've had some super fun programs going on this morning so far. Here's what's up:

Arts & Crafts - Folded Butterflies

Nature - How to Fish

Pool - Musical Pool Toys

Sports & Games - Basketball

Performing Arts - Camp Sing-A-Long

Horses - Fun Jumps

Anthony does dribbling drills at sports and games today.

Steve, Brett, and Lauren bust a move at performing arts.

Jimmy's a popular guy at the pool.

Jimmy and Billy head to nature program.

Michaela and Michael share a dance at performing arts.

Coreena and Mia play catch on the porch.

Cole and Katie turn the sing-a-long into a dance-a-long!

That Olympic Spirit

Good morning Greentop family! We had a very exciting afternoon yesterday, with Camp Olympics! Units competed for five different awards in activities like tug of war, ribbon dancing, sponge races, and parachute popcorn....not to mention shaving foam and water fights!

A Unit won Most Spirited

B Unit won Most Olympic

C Unit won Loudest

D Unit won Messiest

League Pioneers/Day Camp won Most Creative

Emily and Lauren show off their ribbon dancing skills.

The Day Camp and League Pioneers group put their weight into winning the tug-of-war.

Rabah and Declan take a break after a fun afternoon.

Jeremy and Tara head to their next activity at the Olympics.

As soon as the Olympics were over, the skies opened up and it rained for a couple of hours. But luckily it didn't stop the fun! We had a delicious dinner of cheese steak subs and curly fries with chocolate pudding for dessert.

Evening program was a PJ party and got everyone in the mood to head to bed for a good night's sleep.

Melissa, Julianne, and Amanda count sheep in the rec hall during last night's PJ party.

Yesterday's program award winners were:

Arts & Crafts - Moustafa Bridgeforth & Edward Robert

Nature - Laura Foster & Conrad Goldschmidt

Pool - Katherine Zorn & Laura Hoffman

Sports & Games - John Bogasky & Brendan Paternostro

Performing Arts - Jake Steele & Justin Sauter

Horses - Mekhi Ferguson & Tyler Stokes

Congratulations also go out to D Unit for winning the Golden Plunger yesterday!

Wonderful Morning

It's been a cloudy and cool today but that's hasn't stopped our fun! We are all looking forward to Camp Olympics this afternoon!!! Stay tuned for photo updates!

Lunch today was beefaroni, garlic bread, and fruit cocktail.

B2 won the Silver Bucket and C3 won the Silver Urinal - congrats on having the cleanest cabins today!!

Sally, Mike, and Maria take a quick water break from sports & games.

Emma and Alec enjoy their time playing Name that Tune at performing arts.





Katherine and Amy swim laps in the pool.

Adina and Tash enjoy the water.

Stephanie and Ryan head out for their evidence hike in nature program.

A Few More Photos

Here are a few more photos from yesterday and this morning that we just had to share!

Ben and Kevin hang out by the pool yesterday afternoon.

Katie and Amy hang out after dinner last night.

Laura accepts the Golden Plunger on behalf of A Unit last night.

Jake helps Peter with his Arts & Crafts skit this morning at breakfast announcements.

Paddy and Ari pose for the camera on their way to Arts and Crafts this morning.

For breakfast today we had sausage, eggs, and biscuits.

Here's what's in store to brighten up this cloudy day:

Arts & Crafts - Stress Gloves

Pool - Water Olympics

Sports & Games - Cat & Mouse

Nature - Evidence Hike

Performing Arts - Name that Song

Horses - Olympic Jumping

Rain, Rain, GO AWAY!

Happy July all you Greentop blog followers! We had a lovely afternoon today, followed by a quick onset of rain clouds after our delicious dinner of baked ham, green beans, au gratin potatoes, rolls, and ice cream for dessert.

Today's program award winners were:

Arts & Crafts - Ari Spetgang & Mekhi Ferguson

Sports & Games - Maria Foster & William Pughsley

Performing Arts - Brett Campbell & Tyler Stokes

Pool - Jordy Davis & Ryan Campbell

Nature - Andreas Patel & Katie Stillwell

Horses - Adina Gafni & Molly Hodgetts

We had planned to do a car wash for evening program, but with the rain we did Paper Bag Theatrics instead. Each group was given a bag full of random objects and made up skits that incorporated every group member and every item in the bag.....we found that we have a lot of funny and creative people here at the moment!!

The rain has subsided for now, and we're hoping for another brilliant summer day tomorrow! Good night!!

Andreas enjoys the sunshine in the pool.

C3 and D3 work on their skit at paper bag theatrics tonight.

The boys of D3 applaud after the silent acting in performing arts today.

Matt and Troy help clean up after dinner.

Dimitri LOVES the swings!