Today is the last day of football camp. The boys are a little upset over it. This is the first year they went and they really enjoyed it. Little son liked learning new plays, trying a new position, and seeing his friends who, up until this week were away at summer camp. Little Son had camp from 9 am to 12 pm. I don't know how he did it. The camp is at the High School's field and in complete sun. Also it is a turf field and it has black pellets under it for drainage. The pellets attract the sun like crazy. I swear it is 5 degrees hotter on the field than the track. Needless to say he was soaked with sweat afterwards. Big Son liked going because he got to play with the JV team and Varsity team. Last night the coach started yelling at the Varsity team and told them they needed to go back to basics. He made them scrimmage the Freshman team. Big Son said him and is friends were just staring at these Big Guys (he was amazed that some of them had beards). He said all he could think of was he was glad he remembered his cup. Big Son has camp from 6 pm to 9 pm. At least for him it is cooler.

Big Son has his friends over today before camp. A little while ago, he came inside with his friends and said "Mom, tell them what you would do if you were at Grandma's house or your house and you wanted to go to Mt. Kisco to the mall or walk around." I told them that I had to walk or take the bus. They all looked at me like I had 15 heads.

Why didn't you get a ride from your parents?
My parents wouldn't drive me and usually it was during the day.
Where'd your grandmother live?
About 1 mile from Target.
You walked that FAR!!! And then also into Mt. Kisco??
Yes.
What did you do in Mt. Kisco?
Walk around with friends, hang out at the old mall?
But what did you DO?
Nothing. Just hung out with friends, talked, the usual.
That's crazy. I wouldn't walk that far.
It isn't far, it wasn't crazy. It was fun. I was with my friends.
Mom, didn't you use to cross the train tracks? Didn't Uncle Eric use to walk from Mt. Kisco to Bedford Hills along the tracks?
Yes
You guys are all crazy. You can't walk along the tracks or cross them. You'd die.
No, when I did it there was no third rail. (not said: besides you could step over it)
I bet your parents would have killed you if they knew
No, my parents knew.

They started walking away, more confused than ever. How times change.