What is the best care package I ever saw someone recieve? My parents weren’t big on care packages, and I wasn’t really one to ask for them so I’m out of the running. However, after years and years at camp, we’ve seen some pretty interesting things come through gates from the postal service. Which one really was the best?

Was it somebody’s mom’s fresh, homemade brownies? No. They were good, but not top prize.

Was it the remote controlled helicopter that arrived on a Lazy Sunday? Very cool, but that broke way too quickly.

One summer, an enormous box came for someone in my village. This was the biggest care package we had every seen. Whatever was inside was bigger and cooler than anything and everything that everyone else had recieved all summer long. The lucky recipient opend the first box and found …

Another box. Okay, must be pretty important to require such extensive packaging. He goes tearing into the second box.

Another box.

Have you ever seen the Russian Matryoshka dolls? The ones that fit inside of each other and keep going and going. This is what we had here, reincarnated in cardboard form. We watched as this elated, jubilant mail recipient quickly turned to a much more somber, determined tone as he tore through box after box.

Finally, dozens of boxes later, a letter.

From Dad, Love Mom.

Be good all and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Dave