cub scout camp

Now that Ben is 8-years old, he not only has started the scouting program, but this summer he got his first taste of scout camp. I quickly volunteered to go as one of the parents, and it was a riot!! It was a 2-day camp up in Millcreek Canyon, and I went on the first day, which was Super Hero Academy.

This wild bunch of roughinans are most of the 8 and 9-year old boys in our ward, minus the two unknowns sitting behind Ben. They were so excited to be there!

First up, learning about thumbprints, then recording their own.

The Super Buggy was a crack-up! The person on the buggy was pushed all around a dirt course, which was a little harder than it looked, but they had a blast. First Ben pushed the cart, and then he got to be pushed--hard to say which he enjoyed more though!

Ben and Thomas--they will find fun with trains wherever they go! This day Thomas turned 8, so he got to spend his birthday at scout camp--woo-hoo!!

This was a fun game the boys played to pass some extra time away. Everyone stands in a circle and looks down at someone's shoes. When it's time to look up you look at the person's face whose shoes you are looking at, and if they are looking at you too, you scream. I love the look of Ben and Thomas screaming!

The infamous trip to the trading post. Who woulda thunk that the most coveted item in there were these big jewels?! Ben got stuck at the back of the pack, so by the time he got to the front the only jewel left was this beautiful "coral" one. Work with me here, it is CORAL, not pink!

After the trading post was lunch, and then the bb gun shooting range. I was a little nervous about a bunch of 8- and 9-year olds having a bb gun, but they did just fine and had a great time.

Batman's sidekick Robin taught the bb gun class. Boys will take any opportunity to show off their own guns!!

The water games came just in time that afternoon. Not that this one got them all that wet, and not that it was all that hot in the canyon, but the next game was another story...

We were with another troop all day, and this boy is from that other troop. He and Ben were on the same team, trying to plug up the holes so the water wouldn't leak out.

It was a muddy, messy game...and the boys loved every minute of it!!

All in all, the boys had so much fun they could hardly keep a straight face at the end of the day!