How Do You Spell Victory???

Well folks, today's big Super Bowl Bash was quite momentous! After lunch and the completion of commercial making, everyone gathered onto the tennis court for the big game! Our camper stars sported blue jerseys while counselors and staff wore red. Music blasting, crowd cheering, our game began! Touchdown after touchdown was scored by our campers as the crowd went wild! During half time, our spirited cheerleaders had us chanting,cheering and dancing with them. Despite the tremendous heat, the energy on and off field never stopped!

After our victory, everyone made their way to the dining room for a big celebratory dinner where we became re-energized. Afterwards, we headed off to the social hall for commericial viewing! Everyone laughed and cheered upon watching the hilarious commercials advertising tamiflu, purell, microphones, bandanas, and transporters, among a few.

Everyone (with the exception of our Israeli bunch who tie-dyed by Roofy Roofy!) then made their way across the road to the gym for the last part of our after-party featuring Steve Max, Simon Sez! This show is one our camp looks forward to every year as Steve never fails to be amusing while involving all the campers and staff in his performance. The campers as usual managed to outlast the counselors in the game of Simon Sez by not falling for Steve's tricks! Among those campers called up from the audience were Mushka and Rachel.

As night activity ended, everyone made their way back to their bunks, tired from a long day, but in high spirits from such a fantasticly enjoyable one!

Here We Go...Simcha's Going To The Super Bowl!

Welcome to the second annual Simcha Super Bowl! This is Tamara reporting live from Glen Spey, NY where preparations for the big event have begun since the early hours of the morning. We started off our day to the sound of helicopter engines circling overhead...that's right, today our annual helicopter rides came to camp! What better way for our camper stars to kickoff (pun intended) their morning than to relax and gear up for tonight's big game by enjoying a nice, serene sky ride around camp?

After the rides were finished, our Simcha filmmakers began producing their own commercials for the Superbowl, which are still in progress as I report to you. The commercials will be screened tonight during the after-party. Looking forward to previewing all the different and original ideas! Now it is almost lunchtime where our young team of athletes must load up before the game!

We shall be back with more updates live from Simcha Field!

Acrobatics Team Delights on This Superbowl Sunday

Chicago Boyz Acrobatics Team drove all the way in from Chicago to amaze us with their awesome stunts. They performed jaw-dropping flips, turns, jump rope tricks and even jumped over very brave campers and even Shaindy Lowenthal. One of the gymnasts, nicknamed Superman because he flew so high, leapfrogged over seven campers in a row. Rena stood on top of Head Lifeguard Rachel's shoulder and then one of the gymnasts jumped over them.

Simcha Scores Major Victory in Superbowl

Welcome to the first annual Simcha Superbowl. It's Simcha Swines (campers) vs. Simcha Staff. The social hall became a field with taped down foul lines and goals. Alexis opened with a beautiful rendition of the national anthem. The game was on!

The half-time show featured the Lovely, Lively Lifeguards in an exclusive performance. Another two of our staff member performed skateboard stunts.

Of course our very athletically inclined campers won scored touchdown after touchdown as the staff fumbled over their feet and tried to steal the balls from each other.

And the crowd went wild! Dressed in their favorite team's colors and face paint, everyone was cheering with horns.

We re-energized with a celebratory Superbowl dinner of subs, heroes, chicken wings and chips and salsa. Then we relaxed for the after-dinner commercial break. Simcha filmmakers really enjoyed producing the commercial from thinking up the concept to directing their fellow bunk-mates to acting out and shooting the final product. The screening of the advertisements had us all laughing all the way to night activity.

Hut! hut! hut! Hey Simcha!

We are the champions - my friends. . .

This is Leah reporting from Party City, NY where preparations for the first annual Simcha Superbowl are in progress. This morning expert cheerleaders taught us a stretching and dance routine set to sports songs. Out on the field (who knew the dining room could have so many faces?), the Simcha Swines (homage to the H1N1 virus) are getting in formation. Campers and counselors are in uniform with whistles and eye black.

Simcha filmmakers are now are producing their own commercials for the Superbowl. The categories for the different advertisements include Tamiflu, Maayim Chayim water, Pizza and camp's famous Gem Carts. The commercials will be screened tonight during the after-party. The Simcha Academy Awards committee will be attending.

Stay with us for more updates straight from the field.