A Special Place.

There is a place where my family travels every weekend in the summer. I have gone there ever since I can remember. I have pictures of my family and me up there from before I was one year old. This is a place I call my "camp". My grandparents moved up there a few years ago and now live there all year round. It is a very family-oriented place, and all of my Dad's close family has houses up around there. All the houses are so close that many generations of cousins have all grown up together. My camp is on Lake Winnepesaukee, in New Hampshire.

There are many imposing mansions on Lake Winnepesaukee. Some are owned be people such as Britney Spears, Steve Leach of the Bruins, and the owners of the Marriott and Demoulas corporations, who are neighbors. Many others have houses up there and it is making it a very loud lake. It seems like in order to show off how much money you have, you've got to buy a bigger boat than your neighbor and add more additions onto your house. Most people who live on the lake now were not there when the land of my camp was bought. When my camp was constructed in 1930 by my great grandfather, it was a sleeping cabin to the main house, on our cousin's land, built in 1907. More recently, the sleeping cabin was moved back and a bigger house was built in its place. We have one of the best views on the entire lake! It is a perfect view of the northern and southern mountains. Not many big loud boats come in the area of my camp because it is on a narrow passageway between an island and the main land called the Barber's Pole.

All summer long I swim, go boating and go fishing. One time I swam almost a mile with my cousins. We swam from one island where their camp is to another island that only has room for one little house! My dad is always water-skiing. It's a lot of fun to watch what he will do next when he's up on his slalom ski! My brother usually has a busy summer working but anytime he's not, he comes up with us. My brother and I, or anyone else