Summer camps not just for kids

Monday, 1st June 2009

Sometimes it feels like children get all the fun while adults have to do the boring stuff like housework and office work. Children go to all sorts of different groups, clubs and summer camps while adults have to stay behind.

However, it turns out that people in America recognise the need to play or simply get together with other adults and spend time doing things they enjoy.

Mark Braunstein runs a group known as Singles Travel Service, which puts together different groups and holiday packages for adults. One of the most popular holiday ideas is a weekend adult summer camp, which is held at a resort in the Berkshire Mountains of southern Connecticut.

"People want to enjoy a moment again from their childhood that they remember, and it is exactly that," Braunstein said during a CNN interview. "When you travel to go to camp, you've got a bathing suit, two pairs of shorts, tennis shoes and four T-shirts, so everything you have can fit in your backpack," he said. "That kind of experience is so different than the life you live where you are going to an office and you are working on a computer all day."

There are a number of summer camps to choose from in America, such as the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp of on the shores of Little Blue Lake in Michigan and the Second City camera club in Illinois.

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