Today the campers at St. Mel's visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

As last year, we first received a fascinating multi-media introduction to an aspect of rock music history led by RRHoF&M director of education, Jason Hanley.

This year the theme is Four Tracks to Break Beats, a lesson on how the music inspired new technology which inspired new music, with virtual stops at Sun and Abbey Road Studios, and a hilarity-inducing presentation of Depeche Mode's Just Can't Get Enough video.

Ah. Those were the days.

Following the presentation, we had about an hour to tour the museum. We split into six groups, I had a quintet of 10 to 12 year-old girls. This was fascinating to me for a number of reasons - I honestly have not spent much time with kids who actually care about music which predates them, so it was thrilling to have them tell me they wanted to be sure to see Elvis, the Rolling Stones and the Sun Studio display.

It was also a great deal of fun to have answers for all of the bizarre questions they were asking me about the display, or to just show off.

"Look! A gecko!"

"Actually, children, that's the Lizard King."

Our visit took up most of the day, returning in time for lunch, an energized de-brief of all the things we saw, and creating "thank you" notes for our hosts. Jodi had a simple, brilliant plan - we'd stacked up the music magazines Bobby and I had brought in, and Jodi said the campers could use any of the art supplies they wanted ... except scissors. They made some edgy looking letters!

Oh, and Sheff bumped into Dave Grohl at the Rock Hall with his family. For real. An actual rock star in the Rock Hall.