Tawonga Tidbit
🍴 Today’s Kitchen Menu
Breakfast
🍊 Scrambled eggs, english muffins and oranges
Lunch
🌽 Quesadillas with black beans and corn salsa
🍉 Fruit: Melon
Dinner
🍅 Noodles with cherry tomatoes and greens, bean medley and garlic bread
Dessert: Blondies
A Note on Alternative Foods
🥑 Tasty vegetarian and vegan options are available for every meal, in addition to a “middle table” with alternative meal options to meet every camper’s needs.
🥣 During breakfast, the middle table offers a wide selection of cold cereal and milk (dairy-free options too), in addition to hot cereal with toppings. Each lunch and dinner, campers can choose from options at the middle table, like sun-butter and jelly sandwiches, tuna sandwiches and hummus.
🏕 Backpacking Trips and Challenge Course
For the first week of Session A, all campers are in Camp. Backpacking trips and visits to the Challenge Course will start next week!
🎂 Birthdays
What’s so special about today? We are celebrating the birthday of Assistant Unit Head Caitlin M.! Happy Birthday – enjoy your birthday treats!
Curious what celebrating a birthday at Camp Tawonga looks like? Check out this post!
☀️ How’s the Weather?
Partly cloudy with a high of 97, low of 67
Counselors remind campers every day to drink water throughout the day and to apply (and re-apply) sunscreen. These kids are in good hands!
🎥 In Case You Missed It …
Check out this video from a past summer about the magic of Tawonga! We are so excited to be offering invaluable experiences building community and connection this summer after a year without Camp. Get a feel for what Tawonga has meant to so many campers and staff over the years.
Tawonga is a Special Place
The Tawonga Tidbit provides a daily dose of Camp with our kitchen menu, Camp birthdays and more. We hope this series brings you a bit closer to Tawonga!
Photos from Today
Note: If the arrows to navigate aren’t showing up when you click into an image, clear your cache, and they will appear!
Teens in the In-Training program smile during a Zumba block!
B-7 taking a quick break in the Gaga pit!
In the bunk of B-6 play run across a field while pretending to be animals!
Campers in G-1 wave while paddle-boating on the lake
G-4A take a A&C "pack out," meaning a pre-prepared set of supplies, to paint rocks in nature
Campers in B-7 pose in lifejackets in front of the lake while participating in Lilypad slip-n-slide!
G-Aleph splash around during the activity called "free swim" when campers can use the pool to enjoy the water and each other's company
G-10 spending time together playing foosball and talking before lunch
Campers in G-1 play "Lady Gaga Gaga" a version of Gaga where campers play Lady Gaga while playing the game!
G-3 show off the journals they created at A&C!
The bunk of B-10 works together to play a blindfold partner game
Campers in B-2 enjoy paddle boats and kayaks in the lake!
The bunk of G-8 makes enamel jewelry at A&C by sifting glass sand over copper shapes, which the staff will then bake to seal into jewelry
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