A Piano Camp Vacation

Here are Kristen and I functioning as one brain.

For one week every summer, we meet up in Harrisburg and put on some of the most fun piano camps ever found.

We are, after all, an awful lot of fun.

Without needing to speak in order to understand each other, we operate as a team,

teaching everything we know to these middle school kiddos in the mornings

and these elementary school babies in the afternoons.

We teach them about music,

we teach them how to play it on the piano artistically and thoughtfully,

we teach them how to find it all around them,

and we teach them how to remember everything they've learned in order to beat the other teams in Friday's Jeopardy.

We show them new and exciting things in the solos they bring in,

and we give them a brand new duet or trio with a person they've never met.  After much effort on everyone's part, these little pianists perform them on Friday in the closing recital, and Kristen and I remind each other--once again--that we are changing the world.  [We like to feel important...] 

It's a lot of work, changing the world,

and we spend a decent amount of time making sure we know what we're doing each day.

BUT,

if those campers can have the most fun ever,

we think we deserve some fun too.

Hence, we treat ourselves well, focusing primarily on food:

Our daily lunches are phenomenal.

Sometimes we take them outside during our lunch break,

basking in the sun and the wind in our hair as we figure out what happens that afternoon.

Then, our evenings are spent in a variety of ways that allow us to take advantage of the fact that we are together in a different location than where we live our normal lives.

For instance,

shopping at the near-ish outlets in Lancaster

and dinner in the quaint sketchiness that is the downtown there.

A treat.

Then, there's movie night, which includes a jaunt to our favorite Neato Burrito with our favorite Mrs. Noll,

our Administrative help at the school,

and our hostess for the week.

With a 'hotel' like this, who needs the tropics?

Even the fish make us feel welcome.

This year we included pedicures,

followed by some delicious Thai food.

You see, there is nothing better than changing the world while experiencing all it has to offer at the same time.

Piano Camp Vacation is the best.