Me and Liberace
This was our first year at church camp. Even though Liberace isnt a member of Holy Ghost Lutheran, they paid for him to go with me cause he is a nice guy. I was all excited to go this year and my mom got me a new backpack and suitcase just for this. She wanted me to go with a plain set of luggage but I really wanted the Transformers set. She was like, You arent going to like that in a few years, you will out grow it!
I was like, Mom, Optimus Prime is the coolest transformer and I will look like a dork-o-roni if I show up with some plain old bag.
I guess that was convincing enough and we bought the Transformer bag. When we pulled up outside of Liberaces house, he had a whole set of bags. He had a bag for shoes, one for hats, a garment bag, two suitcases and a small bag to carry. They were nice looking though. They were covered in crushed green silk with Italian leather at the corners and the edges. My mom packed all of his bags with just enough room for my Optimus Prime backpack on the top.
Dude, I got some Mad magazines and a crossword puzzle, what did you bring?
Liberace pulled out a bunch of magazines from his small bag but they were all weird one. I dont really read Vanity Fair, Marie Clare or Elle. I just read mine and he read his.
Before we took of mom stopped at McDonalds and I got an Egg McMuffin and Liberace got a breakfast Burrito. Mom just got a Coke, she never eats breakfast. The trip up to Camp Minnetonka takes three hours so she bought a bunch of smaller Cokes at the gas station too.
Archery and canoeing are the most popular classes to take during the week. What they counselors do is cut only so many colored pieces of construction paper to represent how many tickets they can give out for each class. There are also basket weaving class, swimming class, hiking class, sewing class and a bunch of others that are kind of boring. Me and Liberace right away got into canoeing together but when archery came up too many hands were in the air. I got in and he missed out. I looked at him and tears were all welled up in his eyes and he started sobbing, real loud too. The counselors all ran to him and asked what was the matter. He pointed to my archery ticket and they said it was ok; they gave him the very last one.
The highlight of the week is always Capture the Flag. We divide into two teams based on our cabins. Me and Liberace were in Mandan, the cool cabin, so we were on the Iroquois team. We play in this really huge field with a big lake in the middle. Liberace was dumb though he wore this really bright pink feather boa so I told him he had to go on his own cause I didnt want to get caught so early in the game. I saw him run east around the lake and a guy from the other team popped out of the willows and scared Liberace. Liberace tripped, stumbled and rolled down the side of the embankment into the lake.
We ended up losing the game and we headed back to our cabins to get ready for the big talent show. Me and Liberace had our part down pretty good. He would play the piano and I would dance the song Macarena. He would then change the song and the tempo and I would adjust the Macarena just a bit so it would fit to the song.
When our turn came up it started smoothly and we were getting everyone to laugh but then Mr. Showboat had to steal the show. He got off his bench and was playing the piano with his foot, then he climbed up on the top of the piano and was playing it backwards from the top. I kind of just stopped dancing and watched him myself. He really was great. The show stopper was when he pulled out a little kerosene and dowsed it on the top of the piano and set it on fire and then played Jerry Lee Lewiss Great Balls of Fire. It was so awesome and the crowd went crazy until the camp director, Mr. Hayworth, ran onstage with an extinguisher and put the fire out.
We won the award for best skit in the talent show and everybody high fived Liberace. When my mom pulled up to take us home Liberace cried but she brought some pie and it was cool.







