I had a great Memorial Weekend camping trip with the cub scout pack this weekend. Hard to believe it's my last already. Peter is in 4th grade and he'll be a Boy Scout next year. Over the 4 years I've led these trips, I've fine tuned them so that they keep getting better and better ( Read more... )

The Memorial Day Cub Scout camping trip this weekend was AWESOME!! I have yet to send out a formal survey, but verbally every family has come to me to thank me for putting together such a great event. [If any friends want copies of the trip plans, let me know ( Read more... )

I just had the very best experience this weekend with 20,000 of my closest friends. It was AMAZING!! It's the Girl Scout's 100th anniversary this year, and my old High School troop decided to hold a reunion 2-night camping trip at the One Hundred Fun Hundred event ( Read more... )

I had an awesome trip with the kids M-Th camping. I absolutely want to do it again next year, and maybe I can talk my parents into coming with us. On Tuesday, there were 4 families, including us, during the day. There were 4 four-year-olds plus Amber all together, and Peter had a blast! The kids really loved playing together. One went home ( Read more... )

Peter and I had a very nice 34 hours of a 37 hour trip to Yosemite last weekend. Winter storm warnings were in effect all weekend, and we awoke at 6 am to a breathtaking Yosemite valley covered in 2 inches of newfallen snow, most of which was melted by 8 am. We slept very well in the unheated tent cabin until 8 am(!) with only one brief arousal ( Read more... )