B is in charge of the Fall Camporee this month. It is going to be a great activity! He is hosting it at Little Thunder girls camp. I learned about Google Maps today, click here for the cool map to get there!
Virgin River District
Fall Camporee 2009
September 25-26th, 2009
Camp Little Thunder
$5.00/Any Age Kid
Register On-line Today! Registration Cut Off Wednesday September 23rd @ 11:00 p.m.
Tour Permit REQUIRED at Check-In!
Bring your own Dinner and Cracker Barrel. Breakfast Provided.
Events will be held in the dark beginning at 9:00 p.m. in the Amphitheater.
Each Boy Scout will need to report to the Night Games Opening Ceremony @ 9 pm equipped with the following:
Flashlight, 25 ft of Rope, Pencil or Pen & Paper, Pocket Knife, Water Bottle, Scout Hat (required) and a good attitude.
Each Patrol will need to report to the Night Games Opening Ceremony equipped with the following:
GPS Unit(s) you KNOW how to USE!, Fish-line or Twine, Small First Aid Kit, Adhesive Tape and Electrical Tape, 1 pair Binoculars/3 kids, a Watch or Stop-Watch capable of Timing up to 30 minutes.
Charcoal Briquettes ONLY in designated Fire pits! No Camp Fires Allowed!
Breakfast 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Awards Ceremony 9:15 a.m.
To Register you will need: Troop #, # of Boys, & Tour Permit Information which will include a list of Scouts attending. Please bring proof of registration, Tour Permit, and List of Boys with you to camp.
Check-In Opens 4:00 p.m. Come enjoy a beautiful outdoor experience!
We visited the camp last weekend, and plotted spaces for all the activities. There are nine stations that he is running double so the boys will be in groups of about eight boys and go through these games/challenges in the dark. I hope we are done by 1:00 a.m. The moon is supposed to set that night at 11:30 so it will be really dark after that. That will make it cool! That may help get the boys to settle down after the activities wind down. We will then serve breakfast in the pavillion in the morning.
It is unfortunate, we didn't catch that this activity was on the District Calendar last year on the same weekend as our Kokopelli Triathlon! We have sponsored and helped with the tri for years now. We are torn to miss it! I am going to do the registration on Friday, and then go to the camp to help with the activities in the middle of the night and breakfast in the morning. I know that B could do it without me, but we do things as a family, and I am grateful to stand beside him. He supports me in so many projects, I am happy to get to support him. We have a couple of women coming to help with breakfast, it will be fun to do the scouting thing as a family instead of just B alone! In troops outside the church scouting is a whole family thing with the women involved beside the men. We like it better that way!