Everyone but the boys tried to stay dry.
It does not seem to hae een too hard.
But by the looks of it the views made up for any wet feet.
because the falls are beautiful
The first day up there the boys went for a hike. It was not only boys who got hot and tired.
But they went on like little troopers.
And they hiked just shy of 4 miles.
getting ready to leave with 12 boys and 5 adults is not an easy task. Hooking up the trailer.
Loading the trailer it all takes time. And at 7:30am it seems to be that much harder.
They just got this on the trailer. It is a list of our Eagles from the troop.
The boys put a skit on for us parents. The boys laughed and laughed. I did not understand it. Either did the other parents around me. But we clapped anyway. And those boys loved putting it on for us.
we had a really good turn out for the court of honor last Tuesday.
Stephen got 4 merit badges and the Tenderfoot rank
Mini loved driving the truck
All the kids and the 2 firemen.
Matthew got to climb in and play too. He wanted to check out the oxygen tanks.
I told you she liked driving. She hung out in there a long time.
See what I mean?! Like 4 other kids came and went and there she sat. Good thing those guys were not in too big a hurry!
You know for a kid I never seem to get pictures of he is in a lot of them right now. And I love that! Anyway Tues last week was National Night Out. The fireman came and figured Stephen would like to try on their uniform since he was only a few inches shorter then one of them.
They squeezed his feet into the boots. As the guy only wore an 11. He was just laughing that a 12 year old had bigger feet them him. Got him all suited up and had him run a lap around the truck.
He is growing up way to fat for his mother. I wish I could just hold time still for awhile. In a few weeks he starts middle school! Where has the time gone?!
Look at that form there on my son! Oh Matthew loves to bowl!
We went with some friends and the kids love to bowl with them.
And compete. Yes they see who gets the highest score. It is fierce I tell you! Of course I make my kids bowl with no bumpers. LOL handicap them is what I say. Matthew has bumpers yet. But he is getting better all the time.
Stephen and I left right after his Space Exploration class. It was 11:30am and I loaded the car while he was in class. And we were out of there!
He went right to sleep. And I knew I would not be stopping for lunch till he woke up. He slept 2 hours so we made it into Iowa before stopping for lunch.
Traffic was moving and we made good time.
Loved this building. Aren't you glad I can drive and take pictures?
The windmills in Iowa were just a moving.
But this was a sight for sore eyes. To make it back to our state.
Dennis visited with us and talked to Stephen on the way home. Stephen was so excited to tell him about our weekend.
Stephen also got good at self pictures. He was having a grand time taking pictures.
Yes I was that trilled to be driving 600 miles after only being there 36 hours.
It got to a long day in the car. I think Stephen was bored of me. And the fact that I had only brought 3 cd's to listen to. We got home a little later then planned as 494 and 35 we closed for construction so I had to go around to get home. But we got home in time for a run with Dennis.
In the afternoon we loaded a bus and went to city hall. Steve the instructor talked about how it is run there. The kids got to do a mock meeting.
AND play the players. And vote. Our boys did it opposite of the real meeting in case you care.
Stephen was the treasurer. He loved having the money!
I loved the brick work they had in there. I have a video of Stephen's speech but it must be too big as I can not get it to load on here. So no power point talk from him. Unless someone can help me.
In the morning we ate breakfast and got ready to load the buses to our classes.
Stephen's first class of the day was his drafting merit badge. We got to see how they us the design software. And make changes to home plans. Stephen was so tired he fell asleep once. I had to nudge him back to the living.
But he did good and I think he liked it.
But he was a tired boy all of Saturday.
So was I! Well tired girl I should say. And we still had one more class to go! YIKES!! Help me!
Well I somehow got these up here backwards. So if you go to the bottom and read up you will get the story in order. I can not fix the pictures to flow the right way. The tent only got a little wet and so at midnight our boys got to climb into bed. And we made it lights out then.
Troop 111, troop 46 and troop 373 boys
They asked me to take some pictures of the groups.
But as time went on the boys who had all traveled to get here were all done bing in a building they could not move in. And we were in there about 2 hours.
The boys loved it.
They had us all go into the museum for shelter to be safe. 553 boys, do I really need to tell you about the stink in there? They sang, and did skits and tried hard to keep the boys from going nuts. We were under a watch for hail and we had rain and some bad lightening. The sky got just black. But we never heard a thing in this building. It is the one form the other post. It seems to be sitting all alone. We were in the Stuhr Museum's Fonner Rotunda.
We knew by time supper was over we were in for a storm.
We met troop 46 at Godfathers to feed the boys. We met them at the rest area and we got to camp next to them. They had a really good group of boys.
This is the train that you drive by on the way into the camp. Notice nice blue skies.
