Last weekend Mallory and I journeyed over to Catalina Island for our annual, end-of-year campout for Indian Princesses. We were a little worried because due to recent fires which ravaged the island, electricity was questionable right up to the day we arrived, but the camp was back online. On Friday night all the Sunshine Nation tribes gathered by the beach for the traditional “Joke Night”, where some 100 little girls each got up on stage to tell a joke. Last year, Mallory’s joke was used by another girl just two spots in front of her, so when it came time to deliver on stage she could do nothing but say “I don’t have one”. This year we came prepared with some 10 ringers. “What do you get when you pamper a cow?….. Spoiled milk!”. On Saturday, following a day at the beach kayaking and soaking up sun, I was inaugurated by our tribe girls as next year’s Chief with a head to toe body painting. For a moment, I felt like Nightcrawler from the X-Men.

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