The last day of camp, and so different from all the others.
I woke up a bit earlier than I’d planned, and found myself still with most of the campgrounds to myself. I picked my outfit for the day, and then headed up to the events board, to see what was still planned for the day. Not much.
While I was up there, an impromptu “group photo” of the Purple Tears group started. Of course, it was originally specified as “all campers”.. so I got in, only later to find it becoming a RFL thing.
Whatever.
After the group photo, I headed over to my cabin, to start thinking about taking my bunk apart, and picking up the few no-copy items I had rezzed out. I found Mari in there, doing a little “packing up to go home” picture, and it seemed like a good way to punctuate the photo series. When she logged off for RL for a bit, I decided to do one of my own.
I really did have a lot of things rezzed!
After the pic was done, I looked around and saw all the ‘gifts’ people were offering, rezzing “buy me” boxes in and around the various cabins for the campers in that cabin to pick up and take home with them. I’d had this idea of framing the camp “map” from the HUD, and decided to bash together a quick frame for just that purpose. It came out ok. I set copies of them in the various cabin colors, for sale (for free) on each of the porches of the cabins.
Finally, we got called in for the “Talent Show” which is basically just where various campers put on skits, or dance routines. Mari and Pygar did their “Flying Rosebuds” comedy routine, which was as corny as last time.
It was another ‘big’ event, which meant lots of lagging, and crashing, and avatar loading issues. But it was still fun to be there.
From there, the gathering switched to the big “Awards” ceremony, where the camp gives out various trophies for things we voted on.. “camper most likely to be a counselor next year” or “best bunk” or “most creative” etc. I didn’t win anything, but I don’t really care. The Trophies are primmy, and I wouldn’t have been able to rez them at home.
Our cabin hadn’t taken a “Cabin Photo” with all the kids in it who were in our cabin, so we asked Miss Jill (the camp director) if we could have a little time after the awards ceremony, to take a pic before they deleted the camp.
They were so tired from the RFL they decided not to delete the camp at all until Monday.
So we set up some pictures of those of us left from Cabin 1, and got photobombed by Miss Jill.
I’d had an idea halfway through the awards ceremony, that it would be nice to get a picture of me, Mari, Isley, Pygar, and Johnny sitting on the beach, watching the sun set. One last pic. Unfortunately that didn’t work into everyone’s plans. Johnny had to go, and Pygar and Mari both desperately needed a break from the computer.
They said they’d be back tho, so I used the time to stage a funny pic of me offering Isley a ride home from camp.. in my packed up boat. Mari showed up just as we were ready to take the pics, so now she’s in them too!
Then all too soon, it was time for serious pics. We gathered around the hot air balloon on the beach, and did our “getting on the balloon for home” pic.
We were a bit rushed for time, as Robin (Mari and Pygar’s Sister) had gotten online for their “welcome home” time, but Robin was feeling unwell. So we pushed the pics as fast as we could, and then they poofed away.
As I cleaned up my stuff, it was just me, Isley, “Tatty” (Wateru), and BobKitty still hanging out on the beach. I noticed there were four rezzed sun-chairs nearby, and we headed over to them and sat for a little while. Chatting about nothing and everything that had happened. And I watched the clock.
I knew I would drag out leaving til the very last moment.. And if left to my own devices, I’d stay til they deleted the camp the next day. But I also knew that it would hurt me to see that, as it hurt me last camp. I wanted to leave while camp was still ’a place’ in my memory, and not just a collection of rezzed things that could be deleted.
I manually set the sky to sunset, and decided that I’d stay just 15 minutes more. And I poked the time setting for the sun, so that every couple of minutes, the sun got lower and lower.
We chatted for a while, and then said our goodbyes. And then, it was simply ’time to go’, and I went.
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