Egg Drop
July 12, 2005

We do the Kingswood-style Egg Drop twice a summer. 41 summers for the Wipflers times two of this spectacle equals a number suggesting that if a member of our family has seen one Egg Drop they have seen them all. Not so. Each contest is unique and tempted as I am to sit one out now and again, I am irresistibly drawn to this silliness.

Everyone has a blast at Egg Drop, especially the younger set and those new to camp. The premise is simple. Each cabin prepares a “device” that contains an egg. That creation is mauled over and over by the merciless gang of misfits and marauders running the show. Eventually, only one contraption is left standing that contains an unscrambled oval.

Last night, Alice and I observed that not a single egg was “dropped” from any height of note, but Mr. Weird was on hand to light a keg of dynamite under one of the entrants. You’d better believe that the kids were excited by this fraud.

Sara says she took so many photos of the extravaganza that is will be awhile before she posts on this and the trip to White Sands yesterday, too. Hence, I tossed in a bunch of very lightly edited Egg Drop pix for your momentary amusement.

OK, enough said about Egg Drop. Kingswood keeps winning lots of games in Baker Valley tournaments and yesterday at dinner, street hockey and pickleball winners took kudos for their victories. Evidently, we were so dominate in the pickleball that the championship game pitted Kingswood vs Kingswood, each camp having submitted two pairs of teams.

Today is Moosilauke Day, not the mountain but the boys camp on the other side of Mt. Piermont from Kingswood. Moose has plenty of athletes so the games should be close and competitive. As always, sportsmanship shall reign supreme, at least on our side (no slight intended as we only attempt to control our own boys.)

Today is day number 21, which is the magic number for boys’ reaching that pinnacle of total adaptation to life away from home. I do not hear anybody complaining about much of anything and no one has asked for his phone. More on this amazing, but highly predictable, development in tomorrow’s blog.