Deliverance 2006 - Junior Camping trip edition
We took our junior girl scout troop camping this weekend. Everything went pretty well. I am exceptionally sun burned, but that's fine. We got to the horse ranch, got our camp set up 3 giant tents, and one smaller tent for me. The place had a bathroom with running water, etc. which was good, most of the girls were really good. We ate lunches we had packed.
We went to the pond and fished, well... everyone got several tries casting and reeling in. There was no chance of catching anything, but it was still nice, and they enjoyed it.
After fishing the girls went to do badgework, and learn what they needed to know for riding. The first group went out, and the second group went to start prep for dinner. The first group came bace, and several of the girls had been run into branches and had some pretty nast scrapes on their faces. Not everyone had fun, but most did. The first group finished pre for dinner. When the second group came back, we had dinner spaghetti, bread, salad, and brownies, which were made from a box and mixed in a zip lock, then cooked in a box oven.. which is a cardboard box covered in aluminum foil with hot charcoal in a pie plate as it's heat source. We made the oven a few weeks ago. The spaghetti was cooked on a coleman camp stove.
That evening the girls all went into Harpers Ferry for a ghost tour, which they enjoyed. I cleaned up some of our supplies, and started our campfire. We had s'mores when they got back, then the girls went to bed, and we sat around the fire talking for a while. It was nice.
The next day we had a few emotional blow ups, but everything got packed fine, we had sandwiches for lunch, then eventually set out to go caonoeing on the shenendoah. well... the wind was so strong, that we had awful awful problems, and many of us were fine with conoeing, and knew how to do it, and we made just enough progress to strand ourselves in the water with no guides, and no real areas conducive to getting out of the river. We had 3 canoes capsize. Everyone was ok. Everyone related to me by blood ended up in the water. It was sort of awful, but in hindsight... everything was ok, and sort of funny. I felt responsible for the trip, but everyone was ultimately ok. It was tough when my canoe went over, with my 6 year old in it, but she came through like a trooper, and floated the way she was supposed to, even though she was scared.we got to the shore, then eventually back in the canoe. It took us 3 hours to barely get halfway on what should have been an hour and a half. We were finally rescued after insisting the company send someone for us. I may detail it later, because it was really sort of funny and interesting... so ultimately we were several hours late getting home, but all the parents were understanding. Of the 3 canoes that went over, my 12 year old and her best friend had the most fun capsizing. they popped out of the water giggling... I am not certain that they didn't flip it over more or less intentionally... We were all looking tired and worried and annoyed at the very end of things, except my oldest and her friend who looked like they were going to burst out laughing. We got back to the conoe place, and got everyone a soda, and dished out some trail mix, and everyone was happy , and everyone had a good time on the trip, as a whole...
I feel like crap, and am being killed by allergies, but I am ok enough. It was really pretty fun.
We went to the pond and fished, well... everyone got several tries casting and reeling in. There was no chance of catching anything, but it was still nice, and they enjoyed it.
After fishing the girls went to do badgework, and learn what they needed to know for riding. The first group went out, and the second group went to start prep for dinner. The first group came bace, and several of the girls had been run into branches and had some pretty nast scrapes on their faces. Not everyone had fun, but most did. The first group finished pre for dinner. When the second group came back, we had dinner spaghetti, bread, salad, and brownies, which were made from a box and mixed in a zip lock, then cooked in a box oven.. which is a cardboard box covered in aluminum foil with hot charcoal in a pie plate as it's heat source. We made the oven a few weeks ago. The spaghetti was cooked on a coleman camp stove.
That evening the girls all went into Harpers Ferry for a ghost tour, which they enjoyed. I cleaned up some of our supplies, and started our campfire. We had s'mores when they got back, then the girls went to bed, and we sat around the fire talking for a while. It was nice.
The next day we had a few emotional blow ups, but everything got packed fine, we had sandwiches for lunch, then eventually set out to go caonoeing on the shenendoah. well... the wind was so strong, that we had awful awful problems, and many of us were fine with conoeing, and knew how to do it, and we made just enough progress to strand ourselves in the water with no guides, and no real areas conducive to getting out of the river. We had 3 canoes capsize. Everyone was ok. Everyone related to me by blood ended up in the water. It was sort of awful, but in hindsight... everything was ok, and sort of funny. I felt responsible for the trip, but everyone was ultimately ok. It was tough when my canoe went over, with my 6 year old in it, but she came through like a trooper, and floated the way she was supposed to, even though she was scared.we got to the shore, then eventually back in the canoe. It took us 3 hours to barely get halfway on what should have been an hour and a half. We were finally rescued after insisting the company send someone for us. I may detail it later, because it was really sort of funny and interesting... so ultimately we were several hours late getting home, but all the parents were understanding. Of the 3 canoes that went over, my 12 year old and her best friend had the most fun capsizing. they popped out of the water giggling... I am not certain that they didn't flip it over more or less intentionally... We were all looking tired and worried and annoyed at the very end of things, except my oldest and her friend who looked like they were going to burst out laughing. We got back to the conoe place, and got everyone a soda, and dished out some trail mix, and everyone was happy , and everyone had a good time on the trip, as a whole...
I feel like crap, and am being killed by allergies, but I am ok enough. It was really pretty fun.