Scout Camping Trip 08

We had our first camping trip for the year this weekend! We were all very excited and ready to be camping again since the last time we went was the end of last year's Scout season in the Spring. That was COLD (it got below freezing). This was a warm camping trip which I prefer. We went up Friday night and spent two nights this time. It was definitely worth it! There were A LOT of people! And it was A LOT of fun! What's funny is I started this blog one year ago with pictures from our first camping trip with the Scouts. This was our third trip. I hope there will be many more.

The sunrise was beautiful! I took this picture the first morning. It wasn't quite as good the second morning though. We were all up on the rock waiting. I gave up, and showed everyone the cool sunrise from the morning before and went back to camp (hee hee).

There was a really cool rock are that the kids loved playing on.

We had fun taking this picture, trying to make it look like Mike was holding the sun.

Ryan liked the picture of Mike holding the sun, so he had me take this picture of him holding the lantern that was hanging in the tree. He said "make sure the top is cut off".

Amber is really getting good at taking pictures.

Ryan being silly, he put his stuffed animals in the door between the screen so they could see everything.

We had a great time fishing! Didn't catch anything, but had fun. Ryan took one of Mike's fishing lure and put it in a bottle of water and called it his pet. He kept it the whole trip and brought it home to show his friends.

I got lots of Amber time, while Dad helped with the Scouts. Amber did great and even read three books for her homework =)

Amber took this picture, it shows a bit of everything, Mike, our camp site, and me reading in the background (it was a really good book!)

Even camping Amber dresses soooo cute =) She was a super camper! She seems to love it and didn't even mind the fact that there really were no girls for her to play with. (she did spend some time chasing, and being chased by boys . . . humm)

This was our kitchen set up. We had four different stoves cooking the pancakes, bacon (every morning), biscuits and gravy, etc.etc. We really ate quite well:) yum!
Mike helped cook every meal =)

Rob Davis is the Dragon Patrol Leader and his wife Kristen helps with absolutely everything when it comes to camp outs and Den meetings for Ryan's Patrol

Now that Ryan is a WEBLOS he gets to help with the flag ceremony.

They spent a lot of time talking with the boys about safety, first aid, what to do in emergency situations etc. Parents and kids were involved which was great.

A father in our den made this solar oven with cardboard and foil. Last campout we cooked cookies, this time we cooked lunch for everyone, 80 hotdogs, and it didn't take long at all.

They always have a big campfire event on Saturday night. All of the Den's put on skits and it is a lot of fun with smores for the kids and cobbler for the adults afterwards. Jeff Hardy is the Leader and definitely a wild and crazy guy =)

We ended our trip with a short hike to the "water fall" . . . .well it was an area where the water was flowing over rocks that went down, and it was very pretty, definitely worth it. It was an awesome camping trip!! We all had a blast!