Twilight Camp Day 1

In case you didn't know, it gets really hot in the summer in Texas, so we don't have our cub scout camp during the day...we have it from 4-8:30, which is why we actually call it Twilight Camp.

Day 1 at 2pm it looked like this outside. It looked like that for an hour. The streets and everywhere had so much water. We met up at our carpool location at 3:30. Connie and I were the walking den leaders and the 2 leaders who drove. At the end of the day I had the kids sit on towels in my car and threw their muddy shoes in a trash bag. I also used one of the hoses to hose down the mud off one kid because I would rather him be wet in my car then wet and muddy.

We had 8 boys attend and then Connie's daughter and Dylan went to camp as papoose, which means they were in a separate area for the non-scouts doing their own activities. They ended up doing almost all the same crafts that we did. They did not do BBs or archery though.

Here we are at opening ceremonies. Our cubmaster's husband did opening. He was great. 

The directors of the camp had so many things messed up (like all our shirts were adult sized, so we had to exchange, etc) so I was a bit frustrated with camp before it started!

Mike made these costumes, which were awesome.

The first station was archery.

Our range master was legit. He owns an archery range in the city we live in. He was great.

We next did a splash activity, which was a bunch of water games. The boys loved getting wet and would dump the buckets that had muddy water on their heads. Such boys!

After splash, we had dinner (with Dylan).

Then we had our bug hunt. The theme this year was Bug Hunters. The boys found all sorts of bugs. They even found 3 scorpions. I did not go in that tall grass. Do you know what chiggers are? If you don't, then you are lucky. Chiggers are nasty bugs and when  they bite you, it itches for weeks and a terrible itch. Chiggers live when temps are 70-90 degrees, they live in tall grass and there are a ton after rain. Do you understand why I didn't go in the grass. I did practically bath my boys and myself in Off before camp each night, but no chigger bites.

The last station for the night was to make slime.

It started to rain while we were doing this. The boys started to freak out...they put their ponchos on. These are the same boys who were dumping that nasty muddy water on their heads 2 hours earlier and now they were freaking out over some rain. This is what I had to deal with folks.

Luckily Blake wasn't one of the kids to dump the nasty water on him and he didn't freak out when it started to rain.

Our schedule for the week.

Connie was Candace and Gloria was Perry. Gloria was our program director. It was a little depressing because I realized at camp that I knew all 3 of the directors really well. Gloria I know the best. She runs our roundtable every month. But this is the last year for the 3 directors.

They each got a ball as a swap from Mike. He blew these out of a gun--it was a leaf blower that he put a hopper on and it blew our these balls...pretty cool actually.

I heard we had 248 boys at camp. 

We were a walking den with 2 other dens. One of the dens was 5th ward, which was the den that we used to be combined with so it was fun because we know them very well.

Of course this week Aaron was in town. Oh well. We didn't get to see him much since we were gone so much. That night he went to see Wonder Woman with his buddies so he wasn't home when we got back from camp.