It Was Actually Payback

We’ve had some inquiries (humans) and outrage (Stuffies) about what happened at a certain Family Camp Carnival dunk tank. What many of you don’t realize is that the unexpected swim was payback for a series of choices made by many (not all) of our Stuffie friends visiting Kingsley Pines Camp.

Here’s a hard truth- when you’re a guest, it’s important to be on your best behavior. That might involve waiting your turn for something OR not going into places uninvited OR not picking up things that don’t belong to you and breaking them. Just some random examples off the top of my head. I’ll let Yeti take it from here…

-Katie

Okay, Katie, enough already. She’s always going on about “You need to be more polite, Yeti” and “No, I won’t give you a trazillion dollars” and “There’s no way I’m helping you break into a bank, Yeti.” Good, golly, you would think I was always scheming or something. Here’s what actually happened that day.

I was just relaxing and playing ukelele (my new favorite instrument). It was a lovely peaceful sunny day. I had the perfect accompaniment- wind in the trees, loons on the lake, and the laughter in the air. Suddenly, I heard my friends Froggy and Jicama calling me from the Art Shack. They found this really interesting piece hanging from the ceiling that we hadn’t noticed before. Super cool, right?

As we were checking it out, our new friend Danimal happened by. Turns, out he’s a pretty important person around here. He’s in charge of launching rocket ships into outer space from camp! Amazing! We had to see what was inside Mission Control. Maybe we could steal some trade secrets for our friend Piggie. (As you know, she’s a space engineer.) Sheesh, Katie- enough about the stealing already!

Turns out, Mission Control has Nothing to do with Outer Space. False advertising strikes again! Remember that tea party we never got? Anyway…

Jicama was pretty happy and found lots to admire inside the “MC”. Froggy found another cool squirrel for Scottie. I found…

…nothing very interesting. Just a bunch of stuff they use to plan activities around camp. Oh, and there were many weird decorations and goofy pictures hanging everywhere. I was heard voicing my (extremely polite) opinion about the uselessness of a building without toys. Danimal overheard me and said we should really check out the place next door. Now we’re talking!

First, we wrangled some flamingoes and took them for a ride. They weren’t too happy about it, but what else were they doing with their afternoon? Exactly.

Then Froggy found a walkie-talkie by the door. You press a button on the side & talk into it. Then you can be heard all around camp. Froggy just said “hello”. I might or might not have said a lot of things related to bribes and/or extortion (candy for information). I might also have demanded 1,000 pizzas and a metric ton of chocolate by noon or else. So, anyway, I was shocked when they came over and took the walkie talkie away for no reason.

No, problem. I’m a resourceful bear and already had a backup plan in place. I’d spotted this gem (a portable loudspeaker) inside the House of Fun. Did I start a protest and get a whole bunch of kids on my side? I did! Did we ask for basic rights like food, drinks, and candy? We did! Did I encourage them ransack the area in search of said supplies? Maybe. I’m not admitting anything.

Danimal and the Program people promised they weren’t mad. In fact, they said they had a surprise in store for us. We just had to wait until the Carnival to see it. HAH! If we’d known that’s what was in store, we would never have staged that protest. Okay, maybe we would have. Pizza is pretty delicious. Speaking of which, I promised the little guys that I’d help them out with a brownie/cookie mission. Gotta go!