Summer camps

Boy, are they different from when i was a kid. We played outside, and if we were lucky we got to fingerpaint. These days, it's a whole other level! Awhole other price bracket too. You can do just about anything. The midget is dreaming of "horse camp". She has fantasies of galloping in fields of bluebonnets apparently. This is probably not at all what she is thinking. I believe we will have to explain you don't just walk up, hop on a horse and ride off into the pasture. So while she is asking for this, the masterchief is hyperventalating because a friend from works child was killed by a horse. Not at a camp, but at a home. I am pretty certain that supervision and insurance concerns will make a camp be run a lot tighter that a farm in the middle of nowhere. I hope so.
The monkey, well if you know him you can guess what it is he wants :) Yes, the video game designer camp. Becasue nothing says summer like being in a flourescent lighted room with a bunch of video games right? So, do I go with my gut, and say no. You will run around outside, get all hot and sweaty, and eat bad snacks.... ot do i encourage the little bill gates boy, in hopes that someday that enourmously creative brain will come up with something fantastic, and he will be able to support me in my old age?
It's not like the outdoor camps are a whole lot cheaper either. Are they charging for the air? I mean we have to provide the lunches, the water, and the sunscreen. They aren't hiring rocket scientist, well the video game one might be. They went to the outdoor one a couple years ago and had lots of fun. But let's face it, it's hot, we are pale, and redheaded.
So here's a price list, outdoor camp- for the monkey for 3 days is $320
outdoor for the midget her's is only 3 hours, is $160

horse camp 295 for all day, or 125 for 3 hours
this is by grammie and grandpa though, that is a perk :)

monkey camps:
http://www.giantcampus.com/courses/kids-courses/creative-computer-projects-ages-8-10-summer
robot camp, or video game design $299 for half day $499 for full day

Nuts isn't it?