Our visiting day is on a Saturday. We get up and do breakfast as normal. Then we go to cabin cleanup, which is normal as well, except that every cabin has to get a ten on inspection before they can see their parents. It's amazing how much faster they can clean with that incentive. The day has a few scheduled events like the camp play and a dance recital. The week before the kids also sign up for times to do some of the activities like water skiing, sailing, climbing, and tennis. You have to be in a class to do it on Parent's Day. We have a really good lunch outside. Brothers who go to the boys camp can come over. At the end of the day, the 13-15 year olds can leave camp for the evening with their parents or another campers parents if the camp has written permission from their parents.
For supper, we have PB & J or turkey sandwiches because the kitchen staff work really hard on lunch and so are off. Then we break off into a dance pary in the dining hall to cheer the kids up because it's either going to be three weeks before they see their parents again or they're going home the next morning. Then we get the kids going home after first session packed and have a little party in the cabin before bed.
Counselors are assigned to work shifts during the day, for example I'm a drama counselor so I worked the play and then helped out with crowd control at lunch. It spreads the work around and gives the counselors some free time as well to hang out and meet the campers parents. All in all it's a fun day, but a sad one in part if you have campers going home the next day.
