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Bienvenidos al blog de Keystone! Marisa here, and boy has it been a busy couple of months! My January was full of adventures to various places all over the Western hemisphere meeting and visiting campers, families, staff, and all sorts of camp-minded folks.
My travels began in la Ciudad de Mexico (Mexico City), where I stayed with the incredibly wonderful Rojo-Martinez family. They welcomed me with open arms, treated me like a princess, and insisted that I see and experience as much Mexican culture as I could possibly fit into my short visit. As it was my first time on the road without Page, I was a little nervous about doing my first solo presentation…especially since I was doing it in Read More »
Well, after a very busy holiday season, life is back to its usual chaos here at camp. Happy 2012 everyone! We are looking forward to a fabulous year. The phones have been absolutely crazy since the beginning of the year. Megan has definitely been kept busy with the applications arriving every day.
Jessica Page, our Riding Director, and her husband, Jason, have set up a trail camera on top of the mountain here at camp to capture some of our wildlife. We keep deer corn in the center of the property to attract the deer and keep them from harm’s way Read More »
We at Keystone hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year! Things have been booming here in the office since the 1st of the year. Applications are rolling in and space is becoming limited, so those of you who haven’t signed up yet you should think about signing up soon.
Page has already headed back to the road to spread Keystone cheer as she presented an open house at the Hernandez family’s home in New Orleans and the Heit family’s home in Alpharetta. We are still planning on a few shows in the Atlanta area and throughout the state of Florida so please stay tuned to find out the details about those shows. Our Associate Director, Marisa de la Fuente is on a grand adventure as she left the United States for Mexico City on Thursday. She is staying with the Rojo family whose girls attend camp during the summer and presenting Keystone Camp to some of their friends and family. She is also meeting with a big group of families that are signed up for the first time at the Calero’s home and then ends her trip in Managua, Nicaragua as she meets with another group of families that are attending Keystone for the first time at the Arguello’s. We can’t wait to hear about her travels when she returns next week.
I am not sure how many of you subscribe to the National Geographic magazine, but if so I hope you didn’t miss the photograph that was taken by David Lynch of the girl in the newspaper dress. We hope that it can give all of you Keystone girls out there some inspiration for this summer’s “Newspaper Fashion Show!”
Greetings, Keystone world! This is Marisa here, reporting from the frosty mountains of Western North Carolina. After a lovely whirlwind couple of months on the road with Page, we are technically done with our camp travels until the New Year. I, however, apparently have caught a travel bug. That’s right- I’ve spent the last few weeks heading up, down, and over the east coast visiting old camper friends and former staff and generally doing my very best to spread Keystone and holiday cheer!
After a very busy month on the road, Marisa and I are now back at camp to enjoy December. Good grief, where did the Fall go? Actually, I know where it went…it passed while we were on the road seeing old campers and meeting new ones. Our final whirlwind took us from camp through Columbia, SC with the Montgomery family on to Tallahassee, FL with the Lewis family and the Atkins/Meck family. We then drove over to Jacksonville, FL for two days, one with the Bryans and the Trednicks/Medleys, came back to camp for a day and finished the Sunday before Thanksgiving with the Pollocks and Riddles in Laurens, SC. After a deep breath this week, we will be in touch with our remaining families to get January and February scheduled. Marisa already has a trip to Mexico and Central America planned. Remember, Keystone girls cover the world! Read More »
Well, I can put a check mark on one item from my bucket list: I ran my very first 5K race, the annual Flight of the Vampire here in Transylvania County, and I managed to do it before I turn 50! It was great fun, and I had the support of everyone in the office as well as my cross-country running daughter, Catherine. Marisa, Jeanette, Megan, Catherine and I ran as a cast of characters from Alice in Wonderland. Marisa was Alice; Jeanette was the Mad Hatter; Megan dressed as the White Rabbit; Catherine came as the Cheshire Cat, and I wore a Queen of Hearts t-shirt (I wouldn’t want you to think I would wear costumes in the winter and not during camp!) When we arrived at Read More »
Someone got treats in the mail today and are pysched!!!!
Boy, winter blew into camp today. It is gray, cold and rainy. We saw our high at 51 early this morning, and we are now at 43 degrees. What a perfect day to have on a warm winter hat and a great scarf! And I know that many of you are now so equipped.
We have received some terrific emails and phone calls about the great Early Registration gift this year. It was also fun to hand deliver several of the packages as we traveled in the past two weeks. Just Monday and Tuesday, we got to deliver them to Marietta, Georgia and our Birmingham, Alabama girls. Read More »
It’s official…the cold weather is here. Frost greeted us this morning. Those who parked their cars outside had a thin coating of ice on their windshields. As I drove Catherine to Brevard High School this morning, my car showed an outside temperature of 31 degrees and you could see the presence of frost on the grass. It is hard to believe we are nearing the later part of October. Where does the time go? Read More »
As we settle into autumn at camp, life slows down around us. Peace and quiet settle in, and the wild life comes out. I feel like something new greets me everyday. The goldfinches have been passing through enjoying the seeds from the echinachea that bloomed along the ramp to the Pavilion. Canada geese made a brief stop on the canoeing lake last week. This week, it has been so exciting to see a doe and her twin fawns grazing on the upper green of the golf course. Sometimes they will be crossing my driveway between my house and one of the horse pastures. I have been able to stop and watch them for several minutes before they pick up my scent and gallop off. Just Monday, as I was driving through camp on my way up the hill to my house, I passed a great blue heron standing patiently in the canoeing lake as he waited for fish to swim close enough to catch. When Hannah and I left the house mid-morning on Sunday to drive to Waynesville for an IEA training clinic, we came down the hill behind Crow’s Nest, and as we came around a slight curve, a huge red-tailed hawk was flying down the road in front of us before he veered off into a tree to rest. The white squirrels have reemerged and are busy collecting walnuts and acorns for the Read More »
Bienvenidos al blog de Keystone! Marisa here, and boy has it been a busy couple of months! My January was full of adventures to various places all over the Western hemisphere meeting and visiting campers, families, staff, and all sorts of camp-minded folks.
