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
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.
Stephen and I left early Friday morning. We were on a mission to get to Grand Island Nebraska. In 35 years of my life I have never been there. Stephen slept a good chunk of the morning. I do not think he slept much the night before. Either did I to be honest. I was packing. oops! Did I just admit that?
We had beautiful weather to travel in. And though it was rush hour in the cities other then that we had no traffic. But I should have double checked my directions on the GPS with those I had read online.
Because I kept wondering where the freeway was. Because wow I wanted to drive faster then 55 the whole way there.
I mean wow nice views do not get me wrong. Unless the only other person in your car is sleeping and no one to visit with.
Stupid GPS took me on no freeways the whole way there. And all but maybe 100 miles of the trip was under construction. And detours. And some of those said detours were 20 minutes out of my way!
But wide open space and roads with no passing lanes.
Green fields and blue skies.
Oh and did I tell you my GPS hates detours it says recalculating all the time you are on it. Of course I could not shut it off at that point I was lost!
And no passing zones means you follow stupid cars sometimes. But we met some really neat people too when we would stop.
Stephen woke up and started playing with my camera. Which is where a lot of the fields came from he loved those fields. He kept asking me when we would get to Nevada. And I would keep repeating Nebraska.
He got one of us together which started a trend.
Oh well we made it out of Minnesota. No more detours right?
So very wrong. I should have known better!
Tucks hauling and detours here too. And they must have moved HWY 60 as the GPS thought we were driving in a field a lot of the time. So it was you guessed it recalculating. ALOT! Stephen thought it was funny.
If you could read this we got to Nebraska. I was never so glad to see a state!
We met Linda at a glass church.
It was so beautiful, in the middle of no where and just awsome to look at.
Neat to check out and walk in
With a sulpture that dripped water into a pond that ran under the church so when you were in there you could hear the running water.
The cousins together
Waiting to get back on the road since we still had a few hours to drive.
The flower gardens at the church
Almost there. 9 hours on the road and 1 more to go.
A jet just sitting there trying to get me to turn off and go see the air muesum. Oh but so no time for that anymore.
Stephen was just done with the car. It took 10 hours to get there. Because we took regular roads. And detours galore.
But we made it Grand Island Nebraska. This building will hold more importance later. I will tell you all about it.
