Camping

Noah's boy scout troop had a family camping thing for last weekend and I was bored so I decided to go. Danny, Regina, Noah, and my dad also came. It was about 45 minutes from our house.

We got three Friday night at around 8:00. It was completely dark and it was raining. We were the 3rd or 4th group to arrive. Noah had one flashlight which my dad and I used to set up a 3 person tent. Noah and Danny wanted to sleep with a bunch of scouts Noah's age in a little cabin thing that was at the campsite. After getting everything set up and getting all our food and stuff to the tent, we went over to a campfire that someone had built. I forget the rest of what happened that night except for reading some of Brisingr.

I woke up at around 10:00 and had cereal for breakfast. Everyone there went on a short hike around a lake that was by the campsite. When we got back Noah started talking about Runescape with a few other scouts and didn't stop until we left. Thanks Ryan. For lunch I had a turkey sandwich and fritos. Danny started whining that he wanted to go home as soon as he finished lunch. This was very annoying combined with Noah constantly talking about rs, so I borrowed someone's pocketknife and made a stick really sharp. This eventually got annoying also, because the knife was dull. At around 2:00, somebody set up a game called montana golf. You play be throwing two golf balls tied together with a string about 2 ft. long at a pvc pipe structure. The pipe is just a stand with 3 bars, the top being worth 3 points, the middle 2, and the bottom 1.

This was not as boring as carving sticks, but it still had the annoying aspect of Danny and Noah arguing over which color golf balls they got. Danny was still whining about wanting to go home the whole time. At around 4:00 my dad took Danny home and arrived back and hour and a half later. I spent the time until 7:00 playing montana golf with Noah and other scouts and carving sticks. If I made them sharp enough they would stick in trees and hold which was fun to do because Noah couldn't make a stick sharp enough to do that. I accidentally cut myself with one of the sharper sticks, though, and Noah found this funny enough that he stopped being annoyed at not being able to shove his into trees.

Dinner was a giant potluck and was really really good. My favorite dish there was roasted potatoes with bits of bacon and a bunch of cheese melted in at the end, and my dad got the recipe for it. One of the other dads there had won a bunch of chili making contests and that was also really good. At around 8:00 2 of the older scouts played a few songs on guitars then another dad told a story about last year's family camp (I wasn't there). Apparently one of them had dropped their flashlight in one of the toilets while going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. It was still on, and he left it there till morning. Then put a plastic bag over his whole arm and reached in to grab the flashlight. I'm pretty sure this is true because a bunch of other people remembered it.

After that everybody went to one of the scout's houses just a few minutes away. Their barn had two air hockey tables, some arcade games and a few other games. There was also a wall cleared so you could play movies with a projector on it. We watched The Princess Bride, and got back to the campsite around 11:00. We left in the morning.