You have to go as a complete family. Only single adults can go separately. You have to get a letter from your bishop, and sign some forms, and get your tetanus shots up to date. The deadline is in the fall sometime. Then you will be notified in December if you got accepted or not.
It takes 3 weekends and the two weeks in between, about 17 days. It starts right around July 4.
Everyone in your family will have their own group of friends. Its like Especially for Youth and Youth Conference and a family reunion all rolled into one. (Except you're rehearsing all day every day.) There are "cast teams" for every age group, those are the people you hang out with. And there is Primary for children 4-8. If you have children younger than 4, you are out of luck. You have to keep those little ones with you every second, and its pretty rough on them since everything goes so late into the evening. My advice would be to wait until your kids are at least 4 before you go.
Basically the only thing it will cost is for your housing and food and travel. The first time we went (in 2003) we paid for the college dorms at Hobart College, and we bought the full meal plan. So it was about $500 per person. That really wasn't worth it.
The next time (2005), we camped at Zion's Camp in tents. (Thats a campsite just for castmembers which is on the Hill, within walking distance of the stage.) There was a $350 charge for the whole time camping there. And we ate our own food. So that was really economical.
This time, we were not given a spot at Zion's Camp, so we had to camp at KOA, which was about $900. We cooked our own food on a grill under a little dining fly we set up right at the Hill. Our food was good and cheap. An added bonus was that Wayne or the kids could take naps in the hammocks when they didn't have rehearsals. I'll tell about the KOA in tomorrow's post.
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