New Year... New Post

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  We hope everyone had a tremendous holiday season and is now ready for a big 2012.  It's great to be back at the Caribou Headquarters  The Lermans and Rotman recently got back from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico!!! This was not your ordinary trip or walk around the park.  We didn't hold anything back...Down in Mexico we were able to see Dan Nino and Power Serg (Sergio) in action at the Canto Del Sol Tennis Center, we played some tennis with Caribou Legend Martin Parra at the Sheraton Hotel, and we took a little road trip with El Caporal.... RAFFA.  Near the end of the trip we all got together at Martin Parra's house for a huge BBQ.  From home made guacamole and pico di gallo provided by Pipi's Restaurant accompanied by grilled Steak and Chorizo... Raffa, Nino, Sergio, Romy, Fonzie, Marco, Jerry Lopez, Martin Parra, Martin the camper, Bill, Martha, Lori, Bobby, Jerry, and Rotman had an awesome time!!!  And we are real excited that Raffa, Nino, Jorge, Sergio, and new staff member Chongo will all be joining us this summer back at the Bou!!

We want to thank the whole Parra family for hosting such a great party.

The picture to the left was taken at San Francisco beach in Sayulita Mexico... WORK IS WORK!!!

172 DAYS UNTIL CAMP BBBEEEEGGGGINNNNSSSS!!!!!

If you guys in the Boston area have any upcoming basketball games, hockey games, etc, let us know and we'll try to make it out there...Or if you have any big news... please let us know, as we love updates from our Caribouinians.

Its a new year, lets make it a great one.  Keep in touch.. Caribou 2012 is right around the corner.  BOOOM.

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Caribou heading into the Holiday Season

192 days, 4,608 hours, 276,480 minutes, and 16,588,800 seconds until camp beings.  THAT'S NOTHING.  Rotman here, back again after Lori's epic blog post.  That was a nice change of pace, thanks Lori.  We hope everyone is doing well and enjoying this holiday season.  I'm sure you guys are overloaded with final exams and papers, so I'm glad you're taking a break and catching up on some Caribou news.  If you're bored, check this video out Levin-Ep just sent me, its pretty sick!!

The Countdown to Camp Calendars are out!!!

In Caribou news: I was recently at the Mountain Hoop Classic watching Joe Geller's Blair Academy basketball team vs. Andover.  It was an absolute blowout, 79-38, Blair Academy took it to the house.  The beast that is Joe Geller was ripping every rebound and creating absolute havoc under the hoop.  Great playin' Joe.  Tyler Swartz also competed in the tournament for Rivers, and from what I hear, Tyler played real well.  A little side note: during Joe's game, in walked Ray Allen.  No idea why he was there, but I'm assuming he must have heard Caribou Alumnus Joe Geller was playing ball and he had to check it out.

Up at camp:  The weather has been pretty nice up until this week.  The winter season definitely has begun at camp.  The tennis courts are moving along nicely as the paving will begin in the spring!!! Frank says hi to all.

Have a great rest of the holiday season.  Keep in touch. 

A new voice on the Blog scene...and a new Planet with water?!

Hey Caribouinians, Caribouites, Caribou Nation--

How is everybody doing?! Hope all is well! This is Lori :) --- Rotman and I thought we'd mix it up a little bit and take turns Blogging. I'm very excited as this is my first ever Blog post and hopefully it'll be the first of many.. So, I thought I'd just give you a quick update as to what's going on in the office here..we've been really busy! Bill has been back and forth from New York City, Westchester, NY and New Jersey seeing lots of potential families. We'll have some awesome new Caribou kids to bring into "the circle" this summer.

Current campers, keep your eyes on the mail because you should be expecting a little something for the New Year from us pretty soon! It's been a beautiful day here in Wayland today, it feels like an early spring day..so mild and strange for December, but I'll take it! Rotman is sad because he loves the snow and is keeping his fingers crossed for some good skiing weather, but I'm the opposite and I'm hoping the snow just forgets about us this winter.. I'm really not looking forward to digging my car out! Despite the warm weather, Rotman is still skiing the East.. he was up at Killington Mountain this past weekend and although there was hardly any snow, he still had a great time in the beautiful scenery and is looking forward to more ski trips this winter. Last year, he ran into Caribou camper Ryan Silverstein on the slopes!

Super-Earth: Astronomers Find a Watery New Planet

So, the last thing I want to mention today is about the article I just read about the Planet that could have water on it.. I find space and the universe so interesting.. I think about it a lot when I'm up at Camp, and the night sky is so bright and full of stars..it really makes you feel small in the world..but in a good way! Isn't this a beautiful picture of the Caribou night sky that Neil Coffey took?? He's so talented, check out his own website. Read the Planet article that this links to above, it's pretty cool stuff. So, thanks for reading..I'll be back soon! :)

Caribou back from Thanskgiving

We hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving.  Caribou is now back in the swing of things, rocking and rolling.  IT'S GREAT TO BE BACK.  Over Thanksgiving, the entire Lerman clan got together up in Gloucester Mass.  Bobby L. flew in from LA for the festivities.  He is doing real well!! He just joined a running group called the Santa Monica Mountain Goats and is continuing to tutor college students in Spanish.  Talia, soccer staff member in '09 & '10, just got back from a year long travel adventure.  Talia worked for a Grass Roots soccer program in South Africa.  She had an amazing time and is psyched to be back in the USA.    The Wayland headquarters is at full capacity right now.  Bill is back from camp after working on the new tennis courts.  Lori is doing great, she actually has been dreaming about being at camp lately and really misses it!!!  Stella is gearing up for the snow season!!!  Rotman is strapping into the ski's this weekend for the first time this year and heading up to Killington.  And Martha says "its cool to be nice at Camp Caribou" and says "Hi" to all. 

The pic to the left was taken last week by Frankie. Thanks Frank!!


Camper News: Jay Maxwell is playing loads of Tennis and competing in tons of tournaments.  Micah G-L who started playing soccer this summer with JRob and RRS, has made his schools soccer team and they are currently undefeated.  Barber has been getting his music on, playing the drums, the bass, and the guitar.  Now only if we can get that this summer, our campfires are going to be rocking.  Obvislouly we love hearing from you guys, so keep us updates. 

Take care and have a great end of the fall season!!!

New Tennis Courts... Underway!!!!

The summer of 2012 may be 220 days away.. But we're already gearing up.  Bill, Frankie, and Steve are up at camp right now laying down the foundation to three new hard court tennis courts.  The small baseball field will be moved to the new field right next to the theater.  BIG TIME MOVES GOING DOWN.  Here are some photos of whats going on at camp. 

Camper News:  Rotman recently attended a star studded play titled  "Harvey" featuring Louie Rabinovitz.  Louie played a key role in this Rivers School play as a doctors assistant.

Critics reviewed: Dan Rabinovtz of the Needham Times (Louie and Peters Dad) "5 Stars for Louie" Alex Rotman of the Caribou Droppings "Breathtaking."

Louie was awesome!!! But the best part was that he created his character to be this cross of Al Pacino and John Belushi.  INCREDIBLE.  GREAT JOB LOUIE.  I was hoping he was going to break out the "bernie" but we'll save that for the summer.

In other Camper News:  Noah Kaplan has his hands full playing lacrosse and swimming 5 days a week.  Devin Rosen, running back and corner back for Roxbury Latin, is wrapping up his football season.  John Wilkins is about to pull a Michael Phelps in Louisiana, as he recently qualified to compete for the state swim meet for his high school. Jaime Bonomo recently made the Mass Lacrosse Team. BOOM!!!  And Max Kaufman recently organized a carnival for homeless children at his temple in New York.  Hey guys, email info@campcaribou.com and let us know what you're up.

Staff News: BIG NEWS FOR 2012...Matt Leathley and Oli Sproates are back for next summer!!!

Thanks for are all the updates guys.  Keep them coming.  BOU YAH!

A bonkers Boston Reunion

Hey guys, it was awesome seeing everyone yesterday at the Boston Reunion!!  We had a tremendous turnout and a great time.  Things kicked off at Fun & Games where guys loaded up on tons of tokens and won some ridiculous prizes.

Some to note:  Lucas Long and Ben Zimmerman won a Tiger Rug, and thus have decided to have a jungle themed cabin this summer.  Jake Colburn won inflatable shoes that possibly Shaq could have fit in.  Gabe Peckler won a massive inflatable banana.  Cam Baker took home a giant alien and Miles Backer had a little too much fun with his dart gun. 

We then shifted the crew over to the Crowne Plaza.  There we had the classic chicken tenders, french fires, and ice cream sundaes.  After lunch we had the World Premier of the DVD Yearbook and a picture slideshow of the 2011 Summer.  The fun didn't stop there as we then handed out the Caribou Reunion T-Shirts "Boum 2012"  Overall it was great seeing everyone, big ups to Harry Zolot, David Barber, Joey T., Ryan Rosen-Smith, Boden Dock, Max Kaufman, John Wilkins, John White, and Charlie Shapiro for making the big trek in for the Reunion.

Camper Update:  Max Lobel has been tearing things up on the soccer pitch.  He recently scored an exciting free kick from 30 yards out that hit the post and went in!!!   Jay Maxwell is getting his Rafael Nadal on with playing tons of tennis.  Henry Forman reports that he is taking on whatever comes his way and truly grabbing life by the horns.  Mercado is playing the alto saxophone for his high school jazz band.  Cam Baker is playing quarterback for the Sharon Eagles, and recently scored a 85 yard touchdown run.  Thanks guys for letting us know what you have been up to.  We got loads of updates and will be sharing them over the next few days.


Staff Update:  Ryan Rosen-Smith is an EMT at Umass - Amherst and working sporting events and concerts.  Cookies is scoring all sorts of touchdowns for the Sharon Eagles.  And Adam Block claims he is in recording studios with Wiz Khalifa (that's Block for you).

Phili we'll see you this Sunday!!!