Sunday, May 23, 2010

Cub Scout Camporee

Our family had a great time yesterday at the Scouting Camporee at the Fairgrounds....celebrating 100 years of Scouting. Originally my Dad and stepmom were coming up for the weekend to celebrate Gracie's birthday, and my Dad, Paco and Cole were going to make it a boys' day at Camporee, while us girls did something "girly". Unfortunately, my Dad had to have eye surgery at the last minute, and they were unable to come...so Gracie and I tagged along. I'm so glad we did! We went with several families from our pack, and communicated throughout the days on our walkie-talkies...very fun! Each boy had a "buddy" to stay with throughout the day, and then we all met up for dinner, a show by Giovanni the magician, and a spectacular fireworks display.

We met our group at 12:30pm and didn't get home until 10pm last night. Long day! Totally worth it though...what a great time we all had. There were so many activities we couldn't even get to them all....archery, bb shooting, rock wall climbing, remote control sailboats, live wolves, paintball, rocketbottles, survival school, jumping castles, SWAT team, remote control airplanes, model trains, zip lining....and on and on. The boys were able to earn 2 new patches....and just got to enjoy seeing so many other scouts. Our pack didn't chose to camp out, but there were more tents than I have ever seen in one place!
                                               Making punched tin necklaces with the Scout emblem.
checking out some military jeeps..
Gracie and Smokey
The boys made cool dog tags..with skulls of course.
There were hundreds of tents! This is a fraction of them...
Cole and Rickey, buddies for the day!
Cole, Rickey, Dylan and Cameron ready to dominate at paintball!
Gracie can keep up with the boys!
I'm so glad to see its still cool to love on your sister...even at a cub scout event!
Cole receiving his camporee patch from Mr. Behm, our cubmaster
showing Daddy how to putt
Awesome scuba gear
checking out the S.W.A.T truck
Cool bi-planes
At the end of the evening there were some presentations (including one by the President of the company Paco and I work for)...and then the magic show by Giovanni. (Ask my kids about his marshmallow trick when you see them!). We got a crazy spring storm during his performance. The really funny part was when the giant banner behind him starting blowing apart...you can see what's left of it in the picture. It was just comical. He didn't know what everyone was laughing about until he turned around.
last but not least, was a fireworks display which rivals any that we have ever seen on the 4th of July! Here is a video of the finale!! In the beginning you will see a fireworks sign, that says "100 years".


It was the perfect end to a wonderful day as a family and as a cub scout pack! Scouting has added so much to our life as a family...we are so grateful for it!

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