This past weekend I attended Camp Celebrate, a camp for pediatric burn survivors hosted by the NC Jaycee Burn Center. This was my second year and it was just as much fun as the first year!
The camp is held at Camp Kanata...a YMCA camp in Wake Forest!
After all of the kids register at Triangle Town Center Mall the get to ride fire trucks in a parade the whole way up US 1 into camp! Fire stations from all over the state show up to volunteer for the parade and for the entire weekend. Its so much fun and such an honor to have them support and love these kids the way they do!
The Wake Forest FD cooked us dinner Thursday night! It was super yummy!
The theme for camp this year was "bringing back the 80's". Natalie and KC are two of the nurses in the burn unit and the 3 of us made up the "medic's" for the weekend. Here we are sporting some of our 80's headgear for the weekend!
There were a few articles in the N&O from the weekend if you are interested in reading more.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/05/21/1213530/burn-survivors-see-camp-as-a-balm.html
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9628571/
This is one of the parts of my job that I really love and I hope to be able to participate in this camp for many years to come!
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