Poland Spring Campground

Maxwell here!

reporting on Medieval Weekend. There were lots of crazy rainstorms, but we were able to go on with our Medieval games as promised!

Jousting . . .

Defending . . .

Saving princesses in distress

and much more!!

Later that afternoon, after the horseshoe tournament, hat and shield forging

and the porridge eating contest, The White and Black Knights battled for the honor of being king!

It was a long and terrible battle, with one crowd cheering for the noble white knight and the other crowd cheering for the courageous black knight! After much clashing and clanging and tumbling, they settled their challenge by playing rock-paper-scissors. The white knight won and was crowned king. The crowd went wild!! Then the kingdom was at peace once more

Later that night Marcus and Angelique performed some wizardry! It was so amazing, Tami forgot to take pictures!!! Alex did though, and she promised to give them to me if I was really good to the kids at face painting tomorrow. So come back on Wednesday to see some magical photos!

Last but not least, a big shout out to the Poland Players who performed Shakespeare’s Taming of a Shrew Sunday afternoon!

It’s being directed by Alex and they’re showing it in several places locally between now and
the end of August.  They were awesome!

Good luck to you all!  Break a leg!

Almodarr and Angelique

will entertain and astound us on Saturday night!  I’m really looking forward it . . . they were a huge hit last year.

In addition, they’ll be paying a tribute to a dear friend and magician who passed away this past winter, Bob Nixon.

Come back Monday to see some pictures from our Medieval Weekend!  We have jousting, viking ship races, a porridge eating contest and much, much more!

Tami here with the Fiesta Weekend report:

What a blast! Debbie and Bryant played South of the Border Games, had story time with a chocolate mousse snack, tossed horsehoes, played bean games, had a penny hunt, then made sombreros and maracas at Arts and Crafts

Of course the highlight of the weekend is our big Fiesta Party in the playing field Saturday night. We had carnival games . . . like throwing darts at balloons

Pin the tail on the donkey

Getting a tattoo

and the jumping bean game.

There were rides by Ricco Suave the donkey

and the bouncy house was a huge hit as always.

Once Maxwell heard all the fun, he begged his handler to bring him to the party too!

Debbie made fried dough for the very hungry party goers

While Bryant helped the kids crack open the hand made pinatas

It takes a lot of volunteers to run a party like this one . . . so I’d like to take a minute to really thank everyone who helped! We couldn’t do it without you. And even though I know we worked some of you so hard, you dropped where you stood . . .

I’m sure the kids enjoyed every minute of our Fiesta celebration! Don’t you think so Maxwell?

Especially this little guy, who just had to show me all his prizes from the games, and the candy he broke out of the pinata

We still have spaces for week stays in August, and even a couple of sites to book by the month. But you should call fast, because the phone has been ringing like crazy. The upcoming theme weekends are Medieval Weekend, with the magic of the Steelgraves on Saturday night; two weekends of Halloween, Super Hero Tryout Weekend and Labor Day.

September and October is a little lower key, but beautiful. Warm days, and cool nights. The call of the loon and great fishing . . . to find out more about our off season rates, give us a call.

Shiver me timbers!  Me maties and I had a jolly good time this past weekend!

The theme (as if you couldn’t guess!) was Pirate Weekend.

We started celebrating on Friday with a doubloon hunt, walk-the-plank contest

and sink-the-ship game

Then we had a very exciting Ping Pong Tournament! Here are our first and second place winners, Tom and Erin

Tom won by the skin-of-his-teeth, didn’t you? Erin is quite the player!  A wicked good game!

On Saturday, I trained our new employee, who for some reason, only wanted to hang out on the porch.

We greeted all the little “sprogs” (recruits) who be wantn’ to join our crew!

We played landlubber games, had a canon shooting contest, made pirate hats, tossed horseshoes and organized a Yo-Ho-Ho scavenger hunt.

Our resident pirates

Capn’ and Bones, trained the sprogs and then swore them in as official pirates!

Saturday night, Mad Science came to perform some magical science for us!

She balanced a ball on a leaf blower -

Introduced us to her very good friend Eggbert . . . then popped him into her mouth

for safekeeping!  Then she lit a fire under him (in the beaker) to get him to “go home” (by having the oxygen outside the beaker push him inside).

Eggbert went a little way in, then he got stuck.  Elizabeth said she’d take care of him later.

She went on to give the kids a dry ice bath,

and the adults a dry ice shower (which had the kids giggling)

It was great to see so many kids take part in our Pirate theme!  I had a great time, I hope they did too!

Snow-waterballoon fights, Holiday Hayrides, popcorn stringing contests, reindeer relay games, Christmas storytime and

Santa suit creations,

Stocking making (to hold the prizes they were sure to win at the Christmas party)

Christmas weekend was full of holiday cheer! Elves roamed everywhere!

Young and the . . . . young at heart . . . joined in on the preparations

Until finally, it was time for the main event.   Saturday night, everyone gathered at the campground office to await Santa’s arrival

And what an arrival it was!

While Santa was greeting each and every child , the rest of us played games like Pin the Nose on the Reindeer

. . . cookie decorating, snowball tosses and a balloon walk

Finally it was time for Santa to hand out gifts. Everyone gathered around and patiently waited for their names to be called

One little boy exclaimed, (after receiving his present) “I must have been really, really good this year!”

I think Santa and Mrs. Claus would agree . . .

we had lots of very good little boys and girls this weekend!

Thank you all for visiting!

Red, white and blue are everywhere!

The kids spent the morning making noisemakers and decorating their bikes for the Noisy Independence Parade

Later on they had a Bocci tournament, made bubbles and played waterballon games.  Tonight they’ll gather either at Family Bingo or the Ping Pong Tournment.

I wish I had more pictures for you, but it’s been busy, busy, busy!!

Busy for everyone except this young lady

She found a quiet moment with The Three Grumpies right in front of the registration desk.  I asked her if she liked to read and she said, “It’s one of my beloved things to do.”

I’m a little behind in my posting, time has flown these last couple of weeks!

Here’s some photos from Chinese New Year Weekend . . . notice the cool dragon hats!

This little guy can’t be bothered to look at the camera . . . he wants to get on the hayride!

How often do you hear the kids say this during summer vacation?

In July and the first three weeks of August, we have recreation everyday, all day! Each week, my recreation directors and I go over the schedule, tweaking it here, and adding stuff there, until it’s just right for the themed weekend to come. So I never know in advance exactly what we’ll be doing, but here’s a sample based on this weekend’s theme, Chinese New Year Weekend:

Friday 6/27

Saturday 6/28

Sunday 6/29

Monday 6/30

Tuesday 7/01

Wednesday 07/02

Thursday 07/03

Hmmmmm . . .

No one in the pool . . .

playground’s empty too!

Where was everyone?

At the ice cream party!!

making sundaes . . .

and having fun!

Even this little guy got a taste . . .

Bryant was all geared up for recreation this weekend! A Father/Son Horseshoe tournament, waterballoon slingshot, Tag and relay races, arts and crafts, scavenger hunt, a movie (The Golden Compass)

aaaaaaaaa-nnnnnnnnd

a Chicken B-B-Q!

We cooked 80 - half chickens on racks over the b-b-q pits. The guys dabbed sauce on the halves every once in awhile

and then flipped the racks

When Dave declared those chickens done, the racks were taken off and opened up.

By this time, I swear everyone in the campground could smell them!

Dave passed out the chicken while Joanne, Elaine, Sharon and Lee handed out the potatoes, salad, sauce, dressing and butter

It was scrumptious!

And the best part?? All the Dads ate for FREE!

Next weekend we have an ice cream party and pony rides to kick off our full recreation schedule. There’ll be all day, every day activities through August 24th!