Well, summer 2011 is in the books, and is was awesome! Sure there were a few bumps along the way, like fire bans, and we still had an amazing time! We had the most kids we have ever had come and experience Camp Santa Maria this summer including 4 weeks of camp when we were completely full! And while the staff and the site have something to do with the great summer, it really is the campers who come to camp and their parents who send them to camp that really make camp happen. So thank you for helping to make camp great.

It is a little quieter at camp now. Mini campers left 2 weeks ago, and then we had a great weekend family group right after camp with about 120 people at camp over the weekend, and last weekend we had a men’s group at camp. A couple of staff are staying around camp and helping out with weekends and closing down camp from the summer. They all say how odd it is walking around camp and not having campers at camp. It is different. The deer have begun coming a little closer to main camp, and the birds seem really loud.

We did have a great tour yesterday with several members of the YMCA of Boulder Valley Board of Directors. These were some of the facilities board members that wanted a tour of camp. It was great being able to walk them around and talk about the future of camp and where the Y and the Dowers want camp to go. That is it for now, we will be getting registrations ready for next summer by the end of September, so keep an eye on the website, and our Facebook page. See you soon, there is after all only 291 more days until camp 2012!