Hands down, the best week of my year is always the week that I spend directing Footnotes at Wanakee. I can't even begin to tell you how excited, and terrified, I was when was Sue Rudolf told me that she wanted me to take over Footnotes, after she had done it for over 20 years. Sue and I talked about it this week - how she had prepped me to take over Footnotes for years and years without me even knowing it. I'm glad she had such great faith in me - I don't think I have that kind of faith in myself, but knowing Sue wanted me to take over Footnotes means the world to me. It is truly the best thing I do all year and makes me more happy than I can even express.
I was happy to see my two favorite co-counselors at week three check in. Rich was counseling for LITE for the week and Tom G-L was dropping his daughter Emily off of to be one of my Footnotes campers for the week. My first summer on staff (1996) Rich and I were counselors for Footnotes and it was amazing. Then the next year I got to be Tom's co-counselor for LIT. I loved my time with both of them and am always happy to see them and reminisce about our time together.
My fabulous bell director, Kerri-Lynn, always brings her kayaks to Footnotes. We got out on the water on Thursday afternoon and had a great time.
It has never rained on a Footnotes concert, in over 25 years of doing Footnotes. I'll be honest, after the year I had in 2007/2008 I was a little worried that it would torrential rain on the Saturday of the Footnotes concert, but if it didn't happen last summer, I was pretty confident that it wouldn't rain for us in subsequent summers. This year it poured on Friday night and rained through the night into Saturday morning. Luckily, the staff firmly believes that it is not suppose to rain on the Footnotes concert, so they are determined to make the concert happen. Here is Lisa, Kerri-Lynn, Jason, and Sean shop vac-ing and sweeping the volleyball court so the water is gone for our concert at 10am.
I was happy to see my two favorite co-counselors at week three check in. Rich was counseling for LITE for the week and Tom G-L was dropping his daughter Emily off of to be one of my Footnotes campers for the week. My first summer on staff (1996) Rich and I were counselors for Footnotes and it was amazing. Then the next year I got to be Tom's co-counselor for LIT. I loved my time with both of them and am always happy to see them and reminisce about our time together. 
My fabulous bell director, Kerri-Lynn, always brings her kayaks to Footnotes. We got out on the water on Thursday afternoon and had a great time. 
It has never rained on a Footnotes concert, in over 25 years of doing Footnotes. I'll be honest, after the year I had in 2007/2008 I was a little worried that it would torrential rain on the Saturday of the Footnotes concert, but if it didn't happen last summer, I was pretty confident that it wouldn't rain for us in subsequent summers. This year it poured on Friday night and rained through the night into Saturday morning. Luckily, the staff firmly believes that it is not suppose to rain on the Footnotes concert, so they are determined to make the concert happen. Here is Lisa, Kerri-Lynn, Jason, and Sean shop vac-ing and sweeping the volleyball court so the water is gone for our concert at 10am.
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