This past week, the summer Adventure Camp kids got to visit Ijams' senior resident shut-in, old Sad Vlad, the vegetarian vampire who lives in the Homesite basement.
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| Time for breakfast. Is it dark yet? |
Vlad is harmless to humans, he only drinks the blood of trees, a.k.a. sap, and the blood of fruit, a.k.a. juice. At night Vlad turns into a vampire fruit bat. This makes Vlad a frugivore not a carnivore.
Sad Vlad showed the young campers his leaf collection and gave them a copy of his nightly menu that has his favorite sipping trees: sugar maple, sweet gum, sassafras, tuliptree, wild cherry and red maple to name a few entrées. Or as he says, "Vlad eat ontrees.")
Ijams summer Adventure Camp specializes in outdoor adventure and imaginative learning; well, and it's fun too. (And, yes, Vlad knows Count von Count from Sesame Street.)
Who will the kids meet this next week?
Who will the kids meet this next week?
- Supplied photos by Christie Collins and Jack Gress.
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