Scout camp

Both boys spent a week in North Carolina at Camp Daniel Boone for Boy Scout camp in July. I can’t say either of them were super excited but they made the best of it and ended up having a pretty good time I think! We had a large group going this year which was awesome…

and we had lots of dads that stepped up to attend as well. Robert went for the first half and came home on Wednesday. He’s a trooper for sure.

They had a good campsite – Maxwell shared a tent with Hugh and Spencer shared a tent with Henry.

Maxwell served as Senior Patrol Leader for the week and apparently he did an outstanding job. No surprise there. They had a campsite flag ceremony every morning and night, they got 100s on all their campsite inspections, and Maxwell made an effort to make sure everyone was included in all they did. I’m incredibly proud of him.

Days were spent in merit badge classes and the younger scouts spent a day doing Going Great which checked off a lot of rank advancements for 2nd and 1st class. They were busy! Maxwell even caught a fish and cooked it up to complete the fishing merit badge.

I think the food was pretty terrible so there were lots of purchases made at the Snack Hut!

Maxwell did cook up some jambalaya one night that was a hit!

Even better when follow by s’mores!

They had some excitement when there was a mouse inside Maxwell and Hugh’s tent one night! The boys decided to try and set a mouse trap…

ha! There might have also been a mouse that had mice babies inside of Harrison’s shoe but I can’t even talk about that. Proud of these boys…

More to come tomorrow – Stockton Farms!