It is always such a long drive down the winding road out of Northside Marina. After three and a half days of sister bonding, good food, loads of conversation and some booze (okay loads of booze), it is always a time of mixed emotion when CampAPhi comes to an end each year. The hardest part is knowing you might not see some of these ladies again til next year. There is the joy of going home to your own bed, routine, family, etc. but a definite sadness that Camp is over. There is always the dreadful dividing of the leftovers, the cleaning of the cabin and the unpacking when you get home. But you leave with a lot of great memories, belly laugh moments and sometimes a few secrets that you have to carry you over til the next year.
I love my sisters for a variety of reasons. We are all so different and yet so much alike. We come from different backgrounds and live very different lives in a lot of ways. Some are single, some divorced, some happily married, some not so happily married. Some have kids and some do not. Some are cat people and some love dogs. Some never left Texas and some may never come back here to live. If you had an outsider sit down with each of us individually they would probably assume you would never successfully put 15 us in one cabin for 3 days but this year was our fifth anniversary. We are mostly made up of strong, fairly confident women and maybe that is our common thread? Or maybe it is just about a rectangle brick two story house in a little town called Commerce with outdated bathrooms and a silver and bordeaux sign in the yard? Maybe that is all we need in common to continue this bond for many years to come? Maybe it really is just about the bond of sisterhood and having Delta Beta in common?
Whatever it is, there is a nice warm fuzzy feeling in my heart knowing that I have at least 15 gals out there that share a very special weekend with me once a year.
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