Horray for Day Camp!

Many of you know that Utah has been full of wetness. It has rained everyday for what feels like forever. It has already rained twice today and is threatening it again. Well yesterday the scouts were supposed to go to camp, most of which is outside. So it poured in the morning and was very wet. But, when it came time to leave for camp the sun was out. We had 27 boys from our pack attend. All wolves and bears because the webelos have camp another day. And off we headed 37 miles from Logan to camp fife (or fire as some of the boys kept saying).

It started off with an outdoor flag ceremony, teaching the boys how to properly conduct such a meeting.

Then we took our group and they got split into smaller groups. So the group James and I went with went and learned about different things in space. And made kaleidoscopes. I wasn't very diligent in taking photos, I probably should be since I write photographer down as current occupation. Oh well.

After that we went and learned about proportions of the planets and such in relation to each other, and to the sun, and to stars like the red giants. Inside that silver thing is a planetarium. All 17 or so boys and a few leaders loaded in there without shoes and looked at diagrams of star patterns displayed on the inside. It smelled like stinky boy feet and when she moved the projector screens while the light was in, it was as if we were on a roller coaster or something. That with stinky feet, I was determined someone would lose their lunch, but they managed to keep it all together and keep it in! Yay boys, good job!
Now we are on to using binoculars and telescopes. We watched as the boys discovered things far away unseen to the plain eye without magnification. They would focus on the rock climbing wall in the distance, and the trees, and animals. They looked off into the blue of the sky with the telescopes, they after that session they headed a bit further in the field and played frisbee golf. I suppose it wasn't real frisbee golf, but sufficient enough to meet the needs of passing off an achievement.

Then off to the rock climbing wall!!! The boys had a lot of fun. In our group we had some boys from a different pack and boys from our pack and it was fun to watch them go up as far as they felt safe. Some boys scaled the hard side, some medium, and some easy. What was fun to watch, would be when the boys would chicken out on the easy side, and then not want to try again. After watching for a while they decided that they wanted to try again, but for a harder side. And they would make it to the top of the harder side. As if. I tried it, with big bulky work boots on, I didn't make it very far on the medium side, and when I tried the easy side, I made it almost to the top, but decided to stop trying one, because I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to finish, and two it was about time to switch area's and there were a couple more people to climb, so I didn't want to hold them up.






Now by this time everyone is begging to eat, but we had one more hour, of class, just in case it decided to rain. So the boys toughed it out. Besides the next part was fun also. Well the whole day was fun! I don't have pictures of the boys doing the zip line, but it was fun. There was one of our boys who was trying to scare another of our boys out of zipping. Only because he was scared himself. What ended up happening was, both boys had a different type of harness. One just went around the waist and the other was waist and back. The one with waist and back said, "uh oh, you only have that kind of one, that isn't good.." I managed to rebuke him and inform the one boy that it is 100% safe, otherwise they wouldn't have put that harness on at all. When the half harnessed boy got up to his turn he was clipped on and ready to go, and said he didn't want to do it. When the other boy found out that this one chickened out, he proceeded to let another boy in front of him, the look of fear on his face was priceless. So I called him out on that as well, he took his place in line, which was next and bravely and pridefully went down the zip line. Then they made constellation things. Whatever they were. Then learned about different kinds of planes and helicopters and such. All the while there was a bird flying in and out, as it was getting food to feed its young. That was pretty cool, and we saw a bunch of deer running back and forth on the hillside far away.
Finally the boys were able to eat. And so was James, he was practically starving. And I didn't pack the best of dinner, 2 PB&J's a piece and some cookies. So then I proceeded to go around to our boys and get some of their extra food off their hands. We got some chocolate chex mix marshmallow ball, and an apple. And I got a pringle chip or two. Not bad.

After dinner we went and shot BB guns and Bows with arrows. Both James and I shot using both weapons, but not at the same time, and had fun. I didn't take pictures of the bows and arrows because another leader was...I think she was...I was too busy teaching left handed boys how to do it. On who just had the attention span of zero. But I think he enjoyed it none-the-less. Then we had flag ceremony, and theprecipitation began to lightly fall at the close of the day. We left camp around 9:30pm, got into Logan around 10, and hope that everyone slept well. I had fun, I suppose that is all that matters......