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Football, Soccer, Ping-pong, Gockey. Name a game and we pretty much played it during our school’s three-day retreat to the mountains last week. And that was just during our “free” time. There was not shortage of activities, which made for some great father/daughter bonding time. She beat me in Tetherball.  By cheating. I beat everyone in Ga-Ga, three times.  By getting lucky. We lost as a team in Ping-Pong.  By two points. After two action packed days, the trip was coming to an end, but not without the finale:  Eco-Stratego, Mini-Survivor meets tag meets hide-and-go-seek Here are the rules -- two teams hide in the mountains... each player represents an animal...  one player on each team is the sun. Find the sun and you win.   Along the way, if you run down someone from the other team, tag them, and exchange your rank. Spider beats fly.  Human beats lizard.  Bear beats Lion or is it Lion beats Bear. Rule book please. As you might imagine, this is s...

For those of you that have read my blog since Day 1 (or even Day 11), you know that I am Jewish. And other than perhaps some of my rebellious brethren from the good book, this just in, Jews don’t hunt. Or fish. Or camp. Ok, maybe some do, but I don’t. Don’t blame me, it was the way I was raised. I was also raised that there is nothing more important than family and now as the parent of three, there is nothing more important than the kids. I guess that explains why I just went on a three-day camping retreat with my daughter’s school. To some of you diehards, it may not have been camping by definition, but the combination of mountains, cabins, sleeping bags and 56 seventh graders, qualifies for me. In plain and simple english, it was a GREAT time. Great father/daughter bonding time. Great getaway from the real world time. Great time. This is the second straight year that I’ve been a chaperone on this school trip.   Last year we went to one part of our state.  This time we went t...