Heat Exhaustion

Well we've progressed from a heat wave to heat exhaustion around here, as many of you are experiencing too. The Seattle record high was broken yesterday and I imagine Brinnon's was as well (if Brinnon even keeps records). Our high yesterday at the end of the pier was 103. Now I've spent a lot of time at camp and 1/3 of the summers in my lifetime I've been here for 9 weeks. But yesterday was honestly the hottest day I've ever experienced here. I spent most of the day driving back and forth to the Sequim Costco picking up more supplies for camp. We are using all paper/plastic products in the dining hall because our dishwasher is broken and even if it wasn't we don't have enough water in the wells to run it. When I got back from Costco with thousands of paper plates and got out of my air conditioned car, it was like I was back in Phoenix which I once visited in July (a very bad idea). I quickly changed and took the kids down to the beach. My mom had been up for two days helping with the kids (thanks Mom!) and had to get home despite the heat. While it was great to go for a swim, it's pretty much the first time I've ever complained about Hood Canal being too warm. The top layer of water was like a hottub, and the next layer under that wasn't much better. I finally did a pencil dive down as far as I could go and managed to get to the colder water, but of course the minute I got there I had to go back up. We were at central beach during the staff swim, which we've been having every night at 5:00. Nothing ever changes: staff still horsing around in the water and playing king-of-the-float. Monica amazed me once again, this time by swimming ALL the way to the swim float with no help. She is also finally mastering a backfloat. As soon as she gets her backstroke down, she can attempt the BSA swim test. Only supposed to be 90 today (only, geez...) but we'll probably still be in the water as much as possible.