Camp Tracy

Ryan and I went to Camp Tracy (cub scout day camp) together this week. This was my third year going as a leader, and our second year going together. The boys went two days, but I only took one day off of work to go. The first day, the theme was Superhero Academy. The theme the second day was Jurassic Journey. We had some other moms go the second day.

We have seven boys that came - two Bears and five Wolves. Here they are at a couple of full-group activities...They had a "Batmobile" go-cart kind of thing that one boy would sit in and three would push. They had it a couple of years ago, and the boys always enjoy it...There was a hilarious game where the boys divided into teams of four. Three of the boys would try to plug holes in large tubes while the other boy filled it up with water with a pitcher. They would rotate doing the different jobs. It was hilarious, and the boys got drenched!

There was a cool A-frame contraption lashed together with ropes coming out of the top that the boys had to make "walk." One boy would stand on it, and the rest would work together in pulling it just right to make it move, one leg at a time. It was fun to watch them learn to communicate with each other the best way to make it work.

Ryan's favorite activity every year is the BB-gun shooting. There are two belt loops that the cub scouts can only earn at Camp Tracy, BB-gun shooting and Archery. Ryan is always very good at both of them. Every time he'd hit a target (and usually make it clang), he'd turn around and grin at me.

We had a lot of fun at Camp Tracy. This was the last year that Ryan and I will go together. Next year he'll be going to the Webelos camp.