Summer Bucket List 2020

Studying a LEGO catalogue that came in the mail

Usually I have at least 100 things on our summer bucket list, but due to COVID-19, I'm making a shorter list this year because so many things like fireworks, parades, Camp Good News, Camp Susque, National Night Out, etc. will not be possible this summer. As always, there is no guarantee we'll be able to do everything on the list, but hopefully many of them will be possible. If things like national parks and other historic sites reopen, I will likely add a few more things to our list.

1. Nadia has friends over for a sleepover. Nadia has had four sleepovers so far!

2. Ian and Oliver attend a sleepover at a friend's house. Done!

3. Eat freeze pops. Done!

4. Yard sales -  Done!

5. Play outside with kids in the neighborhood- Done!

6.  Six Flags -  Done multiple times!

7.  Eat ice cream at the Purple Cow, Lewisburg Freez, and May's Drive In - Done!

8. Play on four different playgrounds - Done! 

9. Water balloons and water guns - Done! 

10. Play 74 different games at least once - Done!

Oliver riding MY bike!

11. Catch fireflies

12. Feed ducks - Done! 

13. Hike at Ricketts Glen State Park - Done!

14. Sidewalk chalk - Done!

15. Slip and slide -  Done!

16. Fly a kite -  Done!

17. Eat stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut - Done!

18. Eat funnel cake   -  Done!

19. Overnight camp at PMBC -  Done!

20. Acting class for Nadia and Ian - Done! 

21. Reptiland - Done!

22. Make s'mores -  Done!

23. Ruth plays piano duets with Jenna and Yvonne- Done!

24. Earn Junior Ranger badges -  Done!

25. Eat corn on the cob, grapes, nectarines, honeydew, plums, peaches, strawberries, blueberries, pears, cherries, watermelon, and raspberries - Done!

26. Swimming - Done

27. Week with Aunt Janet on Long Island - Done!

28. Pick blueberries  - Done!

29. Pet sit two gerbils - Done!

30. Kids see some movies for the first time (on DVD, Prime, or Disney+):  E.T., Karate Kid (1984 version), Adventures of TinTin, Miracle, Honey I shrunk the kids, Honey I blew up the kids,  Cool Runnings, Iron Giant, Sonic, The Great Alaskan Race, Troll World Tour, Four Kids and It,  Call of the Wild, Akeelah and the Bee, Artemis Fowl, Think Like a Dog, Underdog, Princess Bride, Holes, The Adventure of A.R.I.: My Robot Friend, Eight Below, and Bridge to Terabithia.  - Done!

31. Nadia and Ian do several 300-500 piece puzzles that they had never done before.  Done!

32. Make s'mores pizza - Done!

33. Make fruit pizza

34. Nadia completes Dave Ramsey's Middle School Personal Finance class - Done!

35. Blow bubbles - Done!

36. Jump rope

37. Roller blading, riding bicycles, skateboard, and riding scooters - Done! 

38. Use new bike ramp - Done!

39. Spend time with cousins Done!

40. Some of my personal goals for the summer include: walking 2-6 miles a day as many days as possible, reading at least 6 non fiction books, listening to at least 23 Bible study videos on Lifeway, completing several photography classes online, listening to sessions of the online homeschool convention, completing a few projects around the house, taking pictures more regularly, and finishing planning the next school year. -  Done!

41. Mom eats a strawberry poppyseed salad at Panera and a dish of custard from Rita's -  Done!

42. Go to Sweet Frog - Done twice!

43. Watch butterflies go through metamorphosis - Done!

44.  Listen to a variety of audiobooks together. Right now we are on our third of five books in the Mysterious Benedict Society. I have a list of 33 more chapter books that I'm hoping we'll listen to this summer through Hoopla, Overdrive, CDs from the library, and Audible.  - Done!

Bike ramp!

The kids have used bike ramps at two of the neighbors' houses. The neighbor across the street had a small wooden one, and the other neighbor has a bigger one that has two ramps connected. When I searched online for the one they had, it was out of stock everywhere. I looked online and found a description of how to build one. I sent it to Grandma by email and asked if Pop Pop might be able to make one for the kids, possibly as a birthday gift for Oliver. Pop Pop got to it right away. Paul brought it home from work last Sunday, but it needed some modifications. Those were made this week by Pop Pop. Paul added rubber to the bottom so it wouldn't slip on the driveway and brought it home from work last night. After watching church online this morning, we let the kids try it out for the first time. Nadia only tried it once. She crashed. Ian did it a few times, but he's not a fan. Oliver, Westyn, and Addi have gone over it many times today. Westyn is definitely the most skilled. Addi turned 10 four days ago. Westyn is 3 weeks younger than Oliver. Oliver is very thankful that Pop Pop made him a bike ramp!

March 15 was the first Sunday we had church at home due to COVID-19. That Sunday we watched our own church's online service. Since then we have watched other church services most Sundays. We listened to Pastor Andy Stanley several of the weeks, for example. Today we watched our pastor's sermon, and I'm very glad we chose to do so because he made a wonderful announcement. Two weeks ago he announced that the first step toward reopening would be to have watch parties  - small groups gathering in different rooms in the church to watch the online service. That didn't appeal to our family. He had said in that announcement they were going to take things very slowly because of the size of the church. Well they had a change of plans over the last couple of weeks because today he announced that they will resume in person worship services in TWO weeks. Yahoo!!!! This was a very unexpected surprise! We'll attend FBC next Sunday and then resume at our church on June 21. He also said that masks are not required!!! You can wear them if you want to, but they won't require masks. Our family has chosen NOT to wear masks unless required; I'm so grateful we won't have to wear them at church. They are asking people not to come more than 15 minutes before the service begins. They won't be passing out bulletins, no shaking hands, no hugging, no gathering at the altar for prayer (there's usually a time for that in every service for those who want to come forward for prayer), and those coming to the second service are to wait in their cars until the people attending the first service leave. There won't be any classes offered the first few weeks - just the worship service at 9:00 and 10:45, but in the middle of July they are planning to reopen the kids' classes. We will be asked to register ahead of time so that they know how many will be at each service to make sure social distancing guidelines can be followed and will continue to also offer the services online for those who are ill or elderly or have other health issues impacting their immune system. I am SO happy that today was our last Sunday of having church in our family room. I'm hoping churches are never required to close again. I don't think I'll ever understand why it's been okay to shop at Walmart and Home Depot but not go to church or the library.

P.S. I took pic at the top of the post around 7:00am on June 3 when I noticed that Oliver was sleeping with his head resting on his hippo rather than his pillow. 

Giving Thanks

1. Our county and other counties near us are going green next Friday! Time will tell what exactly life will be like in the green phase (when will our church reopen? when will Knoebels open? when will the kids be allowed to play on playground equipment?), but most businesses will be reopening, which is a very good thing for the business owners and overall economy. You'd think it would be a very good thing for the employees also, but the government's extra $600 a week has created a myriad of problems. Entering the green phase also means Yvonne's family can come up to visit us next weekend for Andrew's birthday! My kids are very excited about seeing their cousins!

2. We went on a FIELD TRIP yesterday! Woohoo! I never dreamt that government intervention might make that impossible for three months, but we were very glad to go to Reptiland yesterday. Hopefully we'll be able to go on some more field trips over the next three months. I'm also thankful I was able to see my friend, Cheri, yesterday for the first time since December.

3. We live in a small development, but thankfully children live in most of the homes. One family moved out during the lockdown. They didn't use a realtor to sell their home. The family that moved out had one preschool boy (whom Oliver played with), and the family that moved in has a nine-year-old girl and a twelve-year-old boy. After Nadia turns 12 (in 18 days), there will be 5 twelve-year-olds in our development! Most of the children are between the ages of 7-14. The family that has an inground pool also has a nice slip and slide, hoverboard, and mini Segway. Oliver has enjoyed using all of the above. He asked for a hoverboard for his birthday after he found out they are much cheaper than a mini Segway. I'm very thankful the kids have other kids to play with and that Camden's family has allowed all three of our kids to swim in their heated pool. In the picture below Nadia and Addi (who just turned 10 three days ago) were making business cards to advertise their pet sitting and baby sitting business. We will be pet sitting Evanna's two gerbils this month while she's on vacation in Montana with her mom.

4. Nadia's friend, Grace, came over for a sleepover last weekend.

5. Nadia is going to a youth group meeting IN PERSON tomorrow night for the first time in almost three months. Tomorrow *should* be our last Sunday of church taking place in our family room staring at our TV. We plan to begin attending church services IN PERSON at FBC on June 14.

6. Shawn came home from the hospital. He was hospitalized for three weeks following having his appendix removed. We're still praying for him. 

7. We've picked up meals at the public school four times so far. These meals have really increased the amount of containers going in the garbage and recycling bin. We threw away one PBJ sandwich, but otherwise everything has been consumed. The kids have eaten almost everything. None of us like broccoli, but the guinea pigs gladly gobbled that up. I've cut back how much milk, bread, and fresh fruit I am buying because of what we're receiving at the school. This Wednesday one of the things we received was a bag of Starbucks coffee. We shared that with Paul's mom and brother because none of us drink coffee. In the summer the kids have participated in the Kid's Café that the Methodist church usually puts on in our town's park five days a week when school isn't in session. Because of social distancing, they won't be offering the program in the way they usually do but instead will be offering a "to go" curbside lunch program two days a week. We'll give it a whirl once that begins on July 1 to see if the kids want to pick up meals there or not this summer. 

8. Millie was able to buy a box of jumbo shells for us. Thanks, Milllie! That was something I hadn't been able to purchase at Walmart or Weis around here. I'm planning to make stuffed shells next week.

9. The library we usually use reopened for curbside service this week. There have been serious glitches to this new system, which I didn't anticipate because they've had a way to place holds online for years. I had been waiting all week for the books I requested on Monday to be ready for me to pickup. The items were on the shelves and no one else had requested them, but for some unknown reason some of them weren't pulled from the shelves until today. I was at the library on Monday, but some things that came in that day which they didn't give to me were checked out to me that day. In other words some things I picked up today are due in two days even though they always let you have things for at least seven days. Unfortunately, the same thing happened today!!! I got home and checked my account versus what was in the bag they gave me, and there are three books listed in my account as being checked out to me that they didn't actually give me. Two of the books were for Nadia and are ones that they give you 14 days to read, but the book for me is one that you can only check out for seven days. It's frustrating, but at least the library is open and we did get some books and DVDs. Hopefully in time they will work out the bugs to this system. If they don't, we will try to use the library as sparingly as possible this summer as I don't want to start driving there multiple times a week given the library is 20 minutes from our house.

Nadia really enjoyed the book I got for her on Monday (Absolutely Almost), so I got her another book by the same author today. It's very easy to tell when she loves a book because she finishes it MUCH, much faster. Nadia is very thankful the libraries have reopened as she isn't a fan of reading on the Kindle.

10. Speaking of books, the kids and I are thankful for free audiobooks! We finished our 600th chapter book on May 6, and as of June 6 we are in the middle of Rufus M, which will be our 615th book, and two of the fifteen books were each over 500 pages long! The series we are enjoying right now is the Mysterious Benedict Society. We've listened to the prequel and the first book so far. We're in line on Overdrive for books two and three, and I'm planning to pay around $8 for the fourth book on Audible because I can't find a way to listen to that one for free. I figure paying $8 for something that we'll enjoy for 12 hours is a reasonable use of money.

11. The kids love water balloons, and I'm thankful for the Bunch O Balloons that Grandma and Pop Pop gave the kids recently. It is SO much easier than filling and typing balloons one by one. The kids are also very thankful I included freeze pops in my Walmart grocery order on Monday. Little things like a water balloon and a freeze pop can put a smile on a child's face!

12. After the stress of owning two rabbits, I'm thankful for three guinea pigs that bring enjoyment to the kids (mostly Nadia) without stress. Since Nadia has had extra time on her hands recently, she's been setting the guinea pigs up for photo shoots by having them wear doll clothing or using props like old cell phones and plastic sun glasses. 

13. I unfortunately had gained back some of the weight I lost last year. I really hope I do a better job keeping it off this time!!!!! Anyhow the good news is that over the past couple of weeks I've lost 5 pounds. I'm on a plateau right now, but hopefully I'll see some progress again n the near future. I'm hoping to reach my goal by the end of July. At least I'm going in the right direction at the moment....

Field Trip Friday!!!

When I was a middle school teacher in the early 90's, I took my students on an average of one field trip per month, which was definitely more than most teachers. I typically take my three children on far more than one field trip per month. We don't usually go on many field trips in January and February, but we typically go on a LOT of field trips in April and May. Not counting the two days we went skiing in January and February, today was our fourth field trip in 2020. I had scheduled MANY field trips from the middle of March through the end of May that were all cancelled or postponed. The four field trips we've taken thus far this year have been to Gettysburg National Military Park, the Pennsylvania Military Museum, Reptiland, and a theatre production in Wilkes Barre plus aquarium in Scranton. 

Today we went to Reptiland, which is only 8 minutes from our house. The kids can get into Reptiland once a year for free through our PBS membership. I paid for my admission plus paid $6 for three feeding sticks for the budgies and $1 for food for the emus. My friend, Cheri, joined us. I hadn't seen her since December so that was greatly appreciated. She hadn't been to Reptiland since she was a teenager, and she's in her early 60's. The weather forecast showed a 55% chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Cheri and I were texting each other around noon trying to decide whether to postpone our trip to next week. Reptiland opened today after being closed for almost three months. I asked Ian and Nadia if they wanted to go today or reschedule the trip for next week. Ian is typically a child who wants to stay home. He's also by far the most indecisive of my three. When given a choice, he is most apt to say "I don't know." That didn't happen today. He immediately responded he wanted to go today. He didn't want to wait until next week. I guess after being home for almost three months (our last field trip was March 8), he was very ready to be out and about! It sprinkled for maybe 30 seconds during our visit there. We visited the dinosaurs first, then saw a 45 minute show on venomous reptiles that concluded with the kids touching a milk snake (which is not venomous but is sometimes confused with the copperhead that is venomous). After the show we fed the budgies. Usually Nadia wants to feed those birds for a VERY long time, but because we were wearing masks she didn't last as long. After we fed the emus and visited the Komodo dragon, we then walked around to see the various reptiles contained inside and outside. I have done better the last several days of taking at least one picture a day, but today I took far more than one picture. I'm not a fan of taking pictures with masks on because I love taking pictures of SMILES, but hopefully wearing masks will not be a requirement for years to come and this will be a record of what life was like in 2020.

While we were at Reptiland I did a quick search on my phone and was happy to learn that our county and two other counties near us will be moving to the green phase on June 12. Yahoo! I am very happy for all the business owners who will finally be allowed to reopen their businesses after being closed for three months. Now to find out if Knoebels will actually be allowed to open this summer as both counties they are located in are going green next Friday. I don't have any field trips scheduled for June or July, but two local field trips I'm hoping to take the kids to this month or next month are Packwood House and Eckley Miner's Village. We've never been to either site before. Both are located in counties that are going green next Friday so hopefully they will reopen sometime this month. We had planned to visit Wendy's family in Chicago in April and Yvonne's family in Maryland in May, but both trips were cancelled. The kids are also excited that entering the green phase means they can see some of their cousins next weekend. We are looking forward to celebrating Andrew's birthday when they come up to our house on the 13th! 

Extra Time

Right now I have more free time than I am accustomed to having. I had virtually no free time from the end of August 2017 to the first half of May 2019. My schedule definitely became more manageable once I returned to being unemployed. During the past year I felt like my life was full, but I no longer felt like I was drowning, which is how I had felt the previous 21 months. Homeschooling three kids, yardwork, laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning keep me busy. Since we are having a break from homeschooling right now, are home almost all the time, and the kids are more independent, I have more free time now than I have had in at least twelve years. In the beginning I was using a large portion of my free time to work on lesson planning for the next school year. That Word document is currently 50 pages (single spaced) thus far. Our school year ended in the middle of April. Since that time I've spent more time taking walks (2-6 miles a day whenever the weather permits), playing board games with the kids, decluttering around the house, doing jigsaw puzzles with the kids, watching a few movies, and reading more books. Yesterday I decided to use some money I received for my birthday to resume a membership in a photography class, and I also decided to pay $25 to register for online access to a homeschool conference. I've been homeschooling for seven years, but I only attended two homeschool conferences in that time span. I had considered attending a Great Homeschool Convention in the past, but I had never done so. Since it only cost $25, and I could listen at home any time between now and the end of 2020, I decided to give it a whirl. So today I made a to do list for myself that I hope to accomplish over the next three months. I didn't include the things I'm already doing, like taking walks, on my list but just some additional things I hope to accomplish. 

Usually my to do list in the summer is almost 100% comprised of projects around the house. I might add more things this summer, but my first list has 50 things on it, and only three are house projects. I typically read more fiction than non fiction. I assume I'll continue to read some fiction, but I only put a few non fiction titles on my list. I already finished Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy by Jamie Martin. Amazon has been giving months of free access to Kindle Unlimited, and so I read that book for free. Similarly, I am almost done with Heartfelt Discipline by Clay Clarkson, which was a book I highly recommend. Chapters 5 and 6 really inspired me the most to try to make some changes in how I interact with my children. The next two non fiction books that I want to read are Get out of your head by Jennie Allen and Everybody, Always by Bob Goff. The latter I am getting at the library. I used part of an Amazon gift card to buy the book by Jennie Allen. Somewhere near the beginning of the pandemic Lifeway offered free access to many Bible study videos. I had chosen three to do but hadn't finished any of them. The free access will be ending in sixteen days so I decided to make that a priority. I listened to two of them today, and I have sixteen left to finish by June 18. Aside from reading a few non-fiction books, watching Bible study videos, and three house projects, I also plan to finish my lesson planning, buy Oliver's birthday gifts (whatever is needed for a hermit crab), complete about 20 courses in the photography curriculum, and listen to approximately 15 sessions through the online homeschool convention. I haven't made a bucket list for the summer yet, but I'm actually contemplating making one even with though life is very unpredictable this year due to the coronavirus. Many things will NOT be on the list that typically are such as fireworks, parades, National Night Out, VBS, etc., but we should still be able to come up with ideas of things we can do even with COVID-19 such as picking blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries at a local farm. Another thing I didn’t put on my list but hope to do more over the summer is play more piano duets with Ian. I used part of an Amazon gift card to buy two more books of piano duets, and they are supposed to be delivered to our house tomorrow! I’m excited about playing the songs with my son!

 

Baby Steps

Life is definitely not anywhere close to what it was just three months ago, but we are definitely closer to normal compared to what life was like two months ago. More businesses were allowed to reopen in the yellow phase than were allowed to be open in the red phase. The places where I typically shop are grocery stores, CVS, and an occasional trip to a hardware store. Since all of those were deemed "essential," I haven't shopped at any of the other stores that were allowed to reopen on May 8. Most of the places that I've been waiting for them to allow to reopen are ones that can't do so until the green phase. Here are some changes that to me represent baby steps back to normalcy:

1. The neighborhood kids are playing together outside, without wearing masks, without staying 6 feet apart, and without worrying if they have some physical contact. For about six weeks the neighborhood kids didn't play together at all. Then they started interacting but still kept more physical distance than usual. Now when they play together it looks totally normal. Up until yesterday none of them had entered our house and my kids hadn't entered anyone else's house (since all this started), but yesterday Karyss had permission from her mom to play with Oliver inside our house, and today Oliver was invited into her house! Another baby step! Oliver has always been one to spend many hours playing with the neighbors. Ian was the first to start joining him more often, and now just in the last several days Nadia has been doing the same. There are three boys in our development who also just finished sixth grade (Damien, Maddox, and Trent). She's played with them. Damien in particular has really been enjoying interacting with Peppa (Nadia's younger guinea pig). The kids that play with my three the most often are Westyn, Addi, Karyss, Damien, Maddox, Trent, and Camden who are all between the ages of 7-12. Addi is turning ten on Wednesday. My kids each gave her a Mylar balloon and a birthday card today to help make her coronavirus birthday special since she can't do what she wanted to do on her birthday (spend some time at a skate park with her family and one friend). 

2. We can get curbside service from the library. Our "usual" library reopened for service today. It involved plenty of "hiccups." It took them multiple hours to get the "hold" system working again on their website today. I called and placed my holds over the phone after many failed attempts to do so online over the course of several hours. They had some of what I asked for ready when we showed up around 3:15pm. Grandma had given me $20 in my Mother's Day card and said it was to buy the kids and I a treat the first time we could return to the library. I let the kids pick where we spent the $20, and they picked Sweet Frog. They stayed in the van for the other errands, but donned their masks to go into Sweet Frog. Oliver lost his Paw Patrol mask before he ever actually wore it in public. He wore the one I bought for Nadia, and Nadia wore one of Paul's masks. Paul owns several since he wears them every day at work. In the "normal" days you would fill your container with frozen yogurt yourself and put your toppings on yourself. Now you tell the employee what kind of yogurt you want and what toppings you want. The price used to be based on weight. Now it's a flat price. I got them each a small, which cost $5 each and included 4 toppings. I opted to get myself a cup of soft ice cream at another little ice cream stand on the way home because it was cheaper and I didn't want the extra calories of the toppings. It was the first time in 2020 that any of us had soft ice cream or frozen yogurt. I savored every bit. Thank you, Grandma! When I got home I discovered that while we were putting away the groceries they had pulled 3 more books plus 1 more DVD that I had requested this morning off the shelves for me. Those four items were listed in my account as being checked out, but the six books I brought home were still listed as being ready to be picked up. What?!? I called and they said once they pull a book it's now going to be immediately checked out. They've never done it that way in the past, and our local library isn't doing it that way now so I wasn't expecting that. I'll keep that in mind in the future in terms of timing my requests more carefully. As for the books I brought home, that was their mistake and they corrected it in the system to show that I already checked those out. I usually only go to the library once per week, but I'm going to need to return sometime this week or the DVD they "checked out" to me today that is in the lobby will be due before we even get it. Now that understand the new system, I will plan accordingly. Ian was happy to get two more Paddington Bear books today. 

3. Nadia has had three different friends over for sleepovers the past three Friday nights. The next one is scheduled to take place towards the end of this month in honor of her birthday.

4. Nadia is looking forward to attending a youth group meeting in person on June 7 for the first time since March 15, and our whole family is looking forward to attending an in-person worship service on June 14 for the first time since March 8. Granted we will have to wear masks, we won't be going to our church (because our church isn't offering in person services yet), and there won't be any Sunday School classes, but still meeting in a church building instead of watching our TV at home. Paul put in a full day of work yesterday at the plant, but the kids and I watched one sermon plus the sixth episode of The Chosen. It was definitely my favorite episode thus far. We only have two more to watch. I hope they continue to make more seasons in the future. If you  haven't watched it before, you can watch it for free on YouTube. Each episode is about 50 minutes long. I'm very grateful that we only have ONE ore Sunday of church at home. I can't wait to take that baby step towards a more normal Sunday albeit I'm dreading wearing a mask for that length of time. 

5. In general ordering groceries online seems to be going more smoothly. The one thing I'm still really struggling to purchase anywhere is a box of jumbo shells or manicotti. I have the ricotta cheese, but I need some pasta to put that cheese into. Weis let me add it to my order (which wasn't the case at Walmart), but when I actually showed up to get my groceries today, nope no jumbo shells. I never dreamt trying to buy pasta would be challenging for weeks on end. The price of ground beef is also no where close to normal. Between now and Nadia's birthday I'm going to have to buy some because she wants rigatoni and meatballs for her birthday. The only meat we've been eating lately has been either chicken or tuna.

6. Reptiland's address is in Allenwood, PA, ,and Allenwood is in Union County. BUT it seems Reptiland is considered to be in Lycoming County because they said today that they are reopening on FRIDAY when Lycoming County enters the green phase! We haven't been on a field trip since March 8, and let me say we really miss our field trips! Reptiland is less than 10 minutes from our house. I think we'll be going there on Friday or Saturday! Going on a field trip (even if we have to wear a mask) is definitely going to feel like another step back toward normalcy. 

7. All the camps I signed the kids up for this summer were cancelled, BUT there will be camps in PA this summer! Last Monday the woman who runs the horseback riding camp texted me to see if we were interested in a week of camp. She raised the price from $200 per child to $250 per child. I realize that's still a very good price for 30 hours of horseback riding camp, but that would mean I'd have to pay $750 for three kids for one week. I paid $600 last year, but that was when both of us were employed. If that had been the only camp the kids could have gone to this summer, I probably would have signed them up for it, especially since Tab was willing to sign her boys up and we could have carpooled like we did last year. Since Nadia found an overnight camp the kids can attend for free this summer, I'm not planning on sending them to horseback riding camp this month. I also found two theater camps today that haven't cancelled yet. Nadia has participated in camps at the one in Williamsport before. They had multiple options. I didn't pick that one for three reasons #1 they said if they cancel you will have a credit (I want a refund), #2 it cost $75 more than the other one I found, and #3 of the five camps she could have picked between (based on the fact she'll be entering 7th grade this fall), two kids had signed up for one of the camps so far and no kids had signed up for the other four camps so far. It seems very likely they might cancel those camps due to low enrollment even if they are allowed to hold them in light of COVID-19 restrictions. The one I selected is about 20 minutes from our house. The two camps were pretty equidistant from our house albeit in opposite directions. There were only two options for her grade level. The production they will be doing is a mash up between Cinderella and Frankenstein, which certainly wouldn't be her first choice. But in 2020 with camps being cancelled left and right, beggars can't be choosers! This camp said they will give a full refund if they end up cancelling due to low enrollment or COVID-19 restrictions. They will make a decision by June 15. So I signed her up. Since VBS has been cancelled this summer as well as the camps they planned to attend, signing all three up for one week of overnight camp plus signing Nadia up for 2 weeks of an acting class (4 hours a day) seemed like baby steps toward normalcy - provided these camps do actually end up taking place that is!