Burning Man 2005: Kids Camp - How We Had Fun

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Burning Man 2005: Kids Camp - How We Had Fun

Wednesday 31 August 2005

One of the nice things about Kids Camp is not just that we have fun, but that people bring their fun to the kids. Over the years we've seen Toast Camp (from Los Angeles), the Radio Flyer family (wagons from bit to unbelievably tiny, pulled by a motorcycle), the mechanized ponies, bunny slipper rides, and, annually, the poi (fire performers).

This year the motorized cupcakes graced Kids Camp, and, one day, a mobile carousel with an EVOLVE license plate showed up. From the top of the truck bed rises a post, from which eight horizontal arms are affixed. To the end of each: a chair!

The kids scream with joy as they're swung around the playa; here's Lila (R & L) and Isaac (R) enjoying their turn.

Kids Camp: the EVOLVE carousel

This afternoon a silver art car, one which looked like nothing more than a huge angelfish, parked near our southern shade structure. Here's Lila high atop its rear platform, the ladder having been put to good use:

Kids Camp: Lila on ball bin guys art car

From within came a bunch of lumber and plastic netting. Left inside were perhaps two dozen black trash bags, filled. With a bit of banging and hanging a structure took shape, but it wasn't until folks starting pouring colored balls from the plastic bags that it became obvious this was going to be the much-talked-about (on the email list) ball bin.

Kids Camp: filling the ball bin

Here's Lila with her new haircut, bobbing in the ball bin as more and more balls are poured near her. (Hey, I gave her the haircut, just as I did Isaac's first haircut.)

Kids Camp: ball bin

Stepping back a few paces you see my kids, and others, going bonkers on the trampoline. (That's our campsite shade structure, greenish, in the background.) The trampoline was the magnet for socialization; a never-ending conversation ran during the entire event, day and night, with kids from 3 through the older teens.

Kids Camp: Lila & Isaac on trampoline

Of course if the kids are at the trampoline / ball bin area then it stands to reason that some parents would be near-by. Sure enough, this area was also a social space for adults, perhaps spurred on by the shade cast by the camouflage netting. (I was surprized that more chairs didn't wind up out here; evidently it was more a transitory than hang-out space.)

Kids Camp: moms at ball bin

Kids Camp is run (for some value of "run") by a mayor; here's his significant other, supervising the wee ones.

Kids Camp: Zaphod's GF at ball bin

(We'll be seeing Mayor Zaphod on the next page, as we check out eDave's Kids Camp art car.)

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