Our daughter goes to several week-long day camps in the summer - most of them are run by the local school district, and consist of a focus for a few hours each day on a particular subject. Last year she went to basketball, art, science, and chess camp. This year she has gone to two basketball camps, art, geocaching, and will go to a CSI camp later this summer.
Geocaching? So far it has proven to be the most popular camp to her this summer, other than basketball. The way we choose these camps, is that she chooses most of them, and then we choose one that we think might be fun and different, or at least mind-opening. She wasn't so hot on our selection of chess last year, and she was afraid that geocaching would be about as interesting. But she loved geocaching. Now the talk is about getting a handheld GPS navigation thingy, and she says this is a good family activity we can all do together. And there are lots and lots of caches - apparently over 2500 in the 17011 zip code alone.
I guess we made a better choice this year than last.
They were looking around for something to replace what they took, and I had some Kerry buttons in my office. So someone here got a couple of Kerry buttons.