I'd love to go to weekend camp for adults where you stay in a cabin and get up with reveille and eat camp breakfast in the camp dining hall, meeting new pals. You'd make crafts like lanyards and tooled leather change purses and birch bark canoes, or go on interesting guided nature hikes, or take tennis or swimming lessons, etc. etc. There would be mandatory afternoon quiet time for one hour after lunch, then time to swim or canoe, or play practical jokes on the other cabins or on the camp counselors. In the evening there would be singing, scary stories, and s'mores by the campfire. At the end of the weekend your children can come to pick you up and you show off the plaster handprint plaque you made, or the shoebox diorama that you made with ferns, moss, and twig/acorn people in it, and watch the camp skit you put on with your cabin mates. You might even win a Best Camper award to take home with you.
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At the age of 83 I'm on the lookout for Alzheimers all the time. Once it hits hard I suppose I might be interested.
Actually this might be fun as a family thing, but if this were for single adults, I suspect there'd be lots of hanky-panky. I was a Boy Scout and worked at a camp three summers. I just never have had the right moment to teach my own kids all of the crazy knots I learned. As for canoes, lake sports, horseback riding and riflery and archery, we've tried to do all of these things but a camp sure gives kids more independence from their parents--something we miss now.
I'm pretty sure Boy Scouts still does this, but we only have daughters. Girl Scouts actually took our kids on shopping trips, or to 'cabins' with A/C and sheetrock. Seemed odd to me.
This has to exist somewhere...