Two weekends ago, Lucas and I had a Cub Scout Camping Weekend at Camp Akela in Cannon Falls. We went last year and had a blast...ditto this year although I heard "i'm bored" for a couple hours Saturday afternoon before swimming...after a great hour of swimming, we were both GTG again.
Our Pack (455) had about 30 parents and kids with our Den of Bears having six. Lucas loves everything water (swimming, canoeing, row boatin') as well as everything camp fire (skits, s'mores, etc.). This was a District run camp. They have volunteer and hired Boy Scouts and Adventure Scouts completely running everything including cafeteria-provided meals, campsite set up, assigned Den Chiefs to our Pack and all really cool activities on a rotation schedule throughout Saturday-Sunday.
We got to go to the barn/farm, nature activity, BB guns, Archery, Swimming twice, earned a whittliing chip and whittled a race car out of a bar of soap, had shop where we learned tools and Lucas made a very nice tool box, canoeing, ballistics (catapaults and slingshotted tennis balls 150 yds plus), campfires, skits by staff and back at the Pack campfire too. How can one get bore? Tired...yes. A little bitten by bugs...yes. Smelly and dirty...for sure...
Rockin' 'n' rollin' in your tent as an early Sunday morning thunderstorm with howling winds came through...oh yeah! Bored, no way, Lucas said, "Dad, I hear other kids cryin." I said I could understand...the storm was BIG. Lucas was a little scared and so was I. I had the tent tied down good, prayed and we just relaxed to ttry to sleep again. We did get a little water. The rain came down so hard with the blowing wind the canvas couldn't repel it quick enough.
On the other side of the family, Jeanne and Jason spent time and even ended up in Cannon Falls Saturday at the brand new coliseum to see cousins Rachael and Alex barrel race...very cool!
During the week, Jason continues to go to summer school and Lucas started a 2 week summer camp at the Egan H.S. called, "Summer Stage." Lucas went to SS last year too. Music, singing, dance and of course, acting alll taught by a quality and experienced group of young people as teachers. They both have checked out the sprinkler park in AV and books/videos at the Rosemount Library. They like the library. They also love biking.
This past weekend we headed to Grandma Jan's cabin...even Sadie. It was a hot 'n' humid one but not too bad at the lake with its breezes and a shaded cabin. Boys immediately went into the water. I walked Sadie but the early evening horse fly population along the road in the woods was too much...we cut it short and had a much better early morning walk.
Uncle Tony was up and so was Cousin Mike and his sweetheart Lindsay...with their new German Lab puppy--Reagan. Jeanne and I took on the job of taking most all the branches from all the trees fallen from the July 4th weeknd storm (F3 tornado) to the street for chippin' by the township. Hard, sweaty work but we're glad to do our share along with the hardworkin' crew (Tony, Joel, Zuzeks, Thoresons) of the 4th weekend. I couldn't imagine what they faced and their hard effort in cutting down trees, cutting them up, stacking and piling branches. The drive from Grantsburg on was amazing as far as all the fallen trees and that's 2 weeks after the storm.
The boys had great time in the water playing and dad even swam "laps" with Lucas, wrestled and threw them both around for a couple hours. Saturday was topped off with tubing in Uncle T's boat and pontooning with mom, Lindsey and Mike, who got the thang started and running well...thank you , Mike!. Mike also taught Jason to use his fly fishin' pole to cast and Jason was excited to catch his 1st fish with a pole (did so before usin' a net). After the after-dinner pontoon ride, he spent the rest of the evening on the dock fishin' while we got the fire on the beach goin'. Kids were toast at bedtime as were Jeanne and I. But we unwound by staying up some more with family.
Sunday we headed home early to go to the Eagan Community Theater's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Coat." One of Lucas's teachers from Summer Stage was "Joseph" a 20 y/o kid who had an amazing voice as well as solid acting. Lucas's cousin Jake and friend Katie were also in the choir. A great performance by all and we all enjoyed it.
GTG...our student Bob and 53 other Chinese students arrived late but should be at the church about 10 pm.
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