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Weekly Schedules
Each week we will post our schedule of days, themes
and events... Everything applies to Rookie Camp as well
as Summer of Fun. We just offer the thrills and chills in a
kinder, gentler fashion for our younger campers...
Week 8 - 8/16-20
Monday, August 16...World's Worst Circus.
And we're not kidding. In addition to the World's Shortest
Giant, Weakest Strong Man and Best Behaved Child, you will thrill
to feats of skill and daring. You won't believe the
blindfolded juggling, though we may need you to help retrieve
the ball...
Tuesday, August 17...The Sherlock Holmes Great Detective
Mystery starring Doriarty. Now in it's fifth year,
this is the scavenger hunt to beat them all. We will use our
brilliant powers of deduction to find the evil genius Doriarty
wherever she may be hiding on campus. Always a highlight of
the summer.
Wednesday, August 18...Halloween. All
right, maybe it's a few months early but this is one we certainly
do up right. We'll be trick or treating…with an emphasis
on the "tricks." And our Haunted House is something we plan
all year long so you can bet it will be talked about till the real
thing rolls along… (Rookies get to go through with the lights
on...)
Thursday, August 19...Human Board Games.
Human Bingo, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Battleship, Tic Tac Toe and
Twister will have the campers in the thick of the action.
Don't miss it…
Friday, August 20...Noah's Ark Water
Park. We'll see our campers slipping and
sliding two-by-two in a day of torrential fun and merriment.
The place is going to be a zoo!
Week 7 - 8/9-13
Monday, August 9...Spy Kids. James Bond,
Jason Bourne, Evelyn Salt. What kid doesn't yearn to be a
spy? We'll perfect those tried and true training methods like
tiptoeing, slinking and eavesdropping... Not even our
usual dose of water play will be able to dampen the ardor of our
mini operatives.
Tuesday, August 10...Cinema Day. For the
fourth year in a row we'll be rolling film on our camp video.
The first three are already enshrined in the Library of Congress's
film preservation registry. Our campers will be the writers,
actors and crew. (Sorry, Coach Steve gets to direct - it's
his camp). With film-themed activities as the backdrop,
we expect to capture lightning in a bottle. Are you ready for
your close-up?
Wednesday, August 11...Medieval Times.
We'll climb back into the time machine and emerge at the height of
the Middle Ages. Water jousting, chivalry lessons and eating
with fingers - the modern world doesn't know what it's
missing.
Thursday, August 12...Cartoon Madness.
While the kids are outside playing, who's inside watching
cartoons? As homage to our campers' favorite "indoor sport,"
we will be tailoring our contests to the talents of Sponge Bob,
Homer Simpson and Phineas and Ferb…
Friday, August 13...Survivor Brentwood.
Test your skill, agility and gross-out quotient in a day of
challenges and contests. Find out who will be voted off our
island. Make sure it isn't you.
Week 6 - 8/2-6
Monday, August 2...The SOF Olympics.
We'll march behind the flags of the world and compete in events too
esoteric for the quadrenniel event - the water bomb shotput,
the pool high jump and bubble-wrap sumo wrestling. Who will
win gold, silver or bronze...? If it's fun, who cares!
Tuesday, August 3...Mythology Day. Zeus,
Hercules, Aphrodite....all the gods and goddesses will be on hand
to bring back the good ol' days of ancient Greece. It will be
a Dionysian good time!
Wednesday, August 4...Star Wars. As part
of our salute to this iconic franchise we will train to be Jedi
masters, learn communication skills from R2D2 and get make-over
tips from Darth Vader. Not to be missed.
Thursday, August 5...Dr. Seuss Day. A
whimsical romp through the mind of Theodore Geisel, we will make
mischief with Thing One and Thing Two, eat green eggs and ham
(or our equivalent which contains no eggs and no ham), and hang
while Horton hatches that egg. A dip in McElligot's pool
anyone?
Friday, August 6...Riverworld. The
Mississippi, the Amazon, the Nile, take your pick. It will be
a wet one as we will navigate them all. Too bad we can't have
skateboards on campus, we could zip down the LA River as well!
Week 5 - 7/26-29
Monday, July 26...Name That Tune. Always
a summer highlight. The auditorium dissolves in pandemonium
as campers race for the buzzers to reveal the playing song...
Is it Barney? Or Justin Bieber? (They're easily
confused)...
Tuesday, July 27...The Amazing Race.
Seemingly in its 80th season, this reality-game show has
trans-navigated the globe dozens of times. This week it will
make a stop in Brentwood. Don't miss it.
Wednesday, July 28...The SOF Grand Prix.
Speed records will fall as we make one endless lap around the
campus on our go carts, scooters and Formula One tricycles...
Fasten your seat belt!
Thursday, July 29...80's Video Games. Pac
Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Pong.... The campers will
acquire a new appreciation for these "classics" as they're the ones
being eaten, blasted and doused.
Friday, July 30...Goliath Water
Slide. The perfect accompaniment to a hot
summer's day. 30' of rushing, falling, splashing and
sliding....
Week 4 - 7/19-23
Monday, July 19...Alien Hunt. With ten
billion planets in the universe, are we arrogant enough to think
ours is the only one that can host life? Aliens are
definitely out there. Today our campus will be overrun by
them. How many can you find?
Tuesday, July 20...Mars Landing. No
matter that NASA has pushed back the date of our first manned trip
to Mars. We'll be getting ready regardless. Watch our
campers conquer gravity and immerse themselves in astronaut
training, Coast Sports-style...
Wednesday, July 21...Don't Do This At
Home. Our wildest, craziest day of the summer.
Graffitti, spitting, throwing food - it's a regular cavalcade
of the outrageous - all topped off by a Human Car Wash. Not
to be missed.
Thursday, July 22...Minute to Win It.
Contests and games that will test your agility, balance, focus and
nerve.... The hardest part will to keep from laughing...
Friday, July 23...Apocalypse, Now. The
water war to end all water wars will keep you wet and happy all day
long...
Week 3 - 7/12-7/16
Monday, July 12th… Blast From the
Past. We'll climb into our Time Machine to offer our
wacky takes on the Cold War, the Space Race, the music of the 60s,
the hair of the 80s and more….
Tuesday, July 13th…The All-Star
Game, Major League Baseball's mid-summer
classic. We'll be playing baseball (conventional and Frisbee
varieties), kickball and skill contests in all of our other
favorite sports…
Wednesday, July 14th…So You Think You Can
Dance! Our annual limbo, hip hop and bubblewrap
freeze dance contests… There'll be booty shakin' all day
long.
Thursday, July 15th… Harry Potter
Day. We've got Quiddich, the Womping Willow and
Snape's potions to name just a few of our wizardly attractions.
Friday, July 16th…Our trademark
celebration of Christmas in July - it's Snow
Day. We've got the hill, we've got the sleds, you
bring the smiles...and mittens.
Week 2 - 7/6-7/9
Tuesday, July 6th - we'll import those
games from across the Pond - Cricket, Rugby and
Rounders - that could have been our national pastimes had
the Revolutionary War gone the other way.
Wednesday, July 7th…Holiday
Day. Sure, everyone knows Christmas, Hanukkah and
Halloween. But have you ever experienced Jumping Egg Day from
the little known nation of Pogo or Flying Saucer Day from
Tiera del Fuego? We've unearthed some of the world's more
obscure holidays and will introduce them to the SOF/Rookie Camp
community…
Thursday, July 8th… It's our Third
Annual Theme Park Day. We'll be recreating
favorites from Six Flags, Disneyland, Epcot, Raging Waters and
more… Are you brave enough for our tea cups?
Friday, July 9th… We bid a
bittersweet farewell to what has been a month-long pageant of sport
and spectacle - the World Cup. We will celebrate the
beautiful game with our own relays and contests and end it all with
another HUMAN CAR WASH… Bathing suits are a
must. Water shoes or flip flops are recommended….
Week 1 - 6/28-7/2
Monday, June 28 - 2010's Greatest Hits - join
us as we unveil our entire summer in the first day! We will
play 3-team breathbreaker, tight-rope walk over water, tie the
world's longest lanyard...and much much more...
Tuesday, June 29 - SOF University - what they
dare not teach you in school. Games and contests will include
"Using Your Head," "Whipped Cream" Pong, Sleeping Through Class and
more...
Wednesday, June 30 - The Magnet 500 - we break
out the go-carts, scooters and new this year, tricycles, as we race
around our Grand Prix tracks. Always a summer favorite..
Thursday, July 1 - Presidential Scavenger Hunt
- with the holiday weekend looming, we take a trip through the
history of the executive branch as we scour the campus for past
Presidents, the good, the bad and the unelectable...
Friday, July 2 - A Fractured Fourth - come with
us as we take the Fourth of July to new heights of wackiness and
irreverence - the George Washington Apple Pie Fight, Thomas
Jefferson Tie-dye and Marquis de Lafayette Car Wash. White
shirts for dyeing, bathing suits and towels highly
recommended...