The campers were thrilled to wake up this morning and head over to do their morning exercises for one very good reason: today is Laundry and Mall day!!!
After breakfast, we all piled onto two buses with our gigantic laundry bags in tow! We were buzzing with excitement and gave a big cheer as we left Camp Taloali! When we arrived at the laundromat, we all rushed to claim a washing machine! We are sure the owners of the place were shocked to see so many deaf people in one place with so much laundry to do!
For some of us, it was our very first time ever doing laundry on our own! Campers and staff helped each other out with tips and advice! "Separate your whites and colors!" "Use cold water if you don't want to separate your clothes!" Pour the detergent into the detergent compartment! Not on your clothes!" We had a lot of laughs! We did a great job, too! No one's clothes got ruined, except for one staff member who forgot she left a red piece of paper in the pocket of her white pants! Oops!
Once we all got our clothes in the washers, we were free to explore the stores around the laundromat. There was a Borders right next door, so many of us decided to go over and check out books and get some delicious coffee! There was also a Walmart so some of us decided to stock up on a few items we needed! Inside the laundromat was pretty fun too, there were several arcade games, vending machines, even tanning booths (YES, IN THE LAUNDROMAT!). Of course, none of us used the tanning booths!
The next thing we knew, we were putting our clothes in the dryer! 30 minutes, then it's time to go to the mall! Time flew by fast, we folded our clean and dry clothes and packed them away! As we left we noticed a sign that was placed on the window by the owners of the laundromat:
We piled back onto the bus and cheered again! Several campers started drooling over the food they were looking forward to: Chipotle! Subway! Baskin Robbins!
We arrived at the mall, most of the campers took off to find food! Several went shopping and got some new clothes! A few campers even went into the Apple store and got on the computers, guess they just couldn't resist the internet! Our shopping trip went by even faster than the stop at the laundromat! We rejoined our clean clothes back on the bus with our new purchases and headed back to our dearest Camp Taloali!
When we got back we all went to unpack and organize our cabins, we had to work quickly in order to get back to Leadership Hall in time for dinner at 5:30! After dinner, for our evening program we had a Camp Council meeting to elect an ASL night chairperson. The campers elected Jordan Ramser to be the chairperson for this event. Jordan has a lot of ASL expertise and a lot of enthusiasm for the position! We are definitely looking forward to ASL night!
Even at laundromat, it is FUN!
If not for quarter, no clean clothes!
Hmm, a pile of colored clothes?
Sorry about few pictures. We were having too much fun to take pictures. After a nice and relaxing night, we were ready to sigh, "YLC '09 GOOD NIGHT!"
