Tawonga Tidbit
🍴 Today’s Kitchen Menu
Breakfast
🥑 Bagel bar with cream cheese, veggie and avocado toppings and fruit salad
Lunch
🥪 Sandwich bar with turkey, pastrami, roast beef and toppings
🍇 Fruit: Grapes
Dinner
🌭 BBQ spread with burgers, hot dogs, chicken and pasta salad and potato salad sides
🍉 Dessert: Watermelon
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 tomorrow!
Tomorrow
The units of Nitzanim (B-Aleph, B-Bet, G-Aleph, G-Bet) and Chalutzim (B9, B10, G9, G10) depart to go backpacking.
Bunks B-3 and B-4 will try their hand at the challenge course!
🎂 Birthdays
What’s so special about today? We are celebrating the birthday of camper Charlotte M.! Happy Birthday Charlotte – enjoy your birthday treat!
Curious what celebrating a birthday at Camp Tawonga looks like? Check out this post!
☀️ How’s the Weather?
Sunny with a high of 100, low of 67
On an especially hot day like today, counselors always make sure that campers stay hydrated, wear sunscreen and cool off in the pool or the beautiful Tuolumne river.
🎧 In Case You Missed It …
Check out this two-minute podcast clip from best-selling author and Tawonga alum Steve Almond, talking with Cheryl Strayed on the podcast “Dear Sugar.” Steve shares the best piece of advice he’s ever received, and – spoiler alert – it was from his camp counselor at Tawonga over 30 years ago! Fun fact: writing runs in the family – see this piece from Steve’s daughter, Josie, on her Quest experience!
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
Campers enjoyed a beautiful morning Celebrating Shabbat services in our outdoor amphitheater, Makom Shalom. After, they were able to explore Shabbat Floats where they could choose from various activities around camp to partake in before lunch. Stay tuned for more photos this evening of campers enjoying the days activities.
Campers gathering in Makom Shalom (Place of Peace) where Tawonga holds outdoor Shabbat services on Saturday mornings.
Campers with their counselor Max, waiting for all the kids to take their seats and start services.
Teens loving every moment of this beautiful Shabbat morning.
Campers holding their Siddurim, likely admiring the gorgeous cover art drawn by our multi-talented year round Assistant Director of Jewish Life and Learning, Meg Adler.
"Turn and point to somebody across the crowd from you, turn and point and say hello. Turn and point to somebody across the crowd from you, turn and point and say....hallelujah." Starting Shabbat services with friendly interactive songs makes for a very inviting atmosphere here at camp.
Camp Tawonga CEO, Jamie Simon-Harris, and her son Ezra enjoying the beautiful morning connecting with Judaism and nature under the tall tall trees.
Camp Director, Becca Meyer, leads our camp community in the Shema.
Turning to the east for the Amidah, a personal silent prayer.
Campers facing East during the Amidah.
Campers doing hand motions to the song Oseh Shalom.
"May the one, may the one who brings peace, bring peace down, bring peace down." Campers proudly showing their peace signs.
Campers following along with their Siddurim.
Our Tawonga community, gathered together in peace and unity.
SCIT Devin, parading the Torah around Makom Shalom to the tune of Al Shlosah D'varim.
Jewish Programmers Aaron and Jay undressing the Torah.
Tawonga's Torah in all it's beauty.
Todays Aliyah called up campers who are celebrating Shabbat at Camp Tawonga for the very first time. An Aliyah is the calling of a member of a Jewish congregation to the bimah for a segment of Torah reading. Look at all these new campers!
Counselor Matan reading verses of this weeks Torah portion.
Introducing the parsha players, a group of staff members who bring the Torah to life by acting out the weekly parsha, a section of the torah. 
Counselor Luke, doing the honors of Hagbah and Gelilah, lifting and dressing the Torah, before putting it in the Ark.
Enjoying one last song before ending Shabbat services and sending the campers off to Shabbat floats.
Camp Director, Becca Meyer, announcing late morning float stations. Floats is a block of time where campers can choose which activities they want to participate in before lunch.
Ping-Pong
Pool time for the SCITs.
Chess match
Archery
Soccer
Basketball
Cards 
Canoeing on the lake.
Paddle boating on the lake.
Chilling by the lake watching the paddle boats and canoes. 
Playing music on the back porch.
Foseball
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