Day Camp---Part 4 (Misc.)

Day Camp included more activities than the shooting sports, swimming and juice box racers...these are some of the other things we did...

 Teamwork Games

 Water Rockets

 Free time...also known as Ketchup!

 The Who Knew? station took us forward and back in time...depending on where I time machine was each day.

Here the boys are predicting what we will see in the future.  This went in the time capsule on Friday night and we when they open it in 25 years, we will see if their predicitons come true.

 Everyday after lunch we had guests come and speak to us about different subjects such as Leave No Trace, Animal Track Identification, and our 2 favorites...Reptiles (see above) and the Wild West Cowboy (right) from the Oklahoma Historical Society.  They were great and the boys all got to pet the snakes...I was far, far away until I needed to take pictures. 

Our Wild West Cowboy had great stories about his life as a cowboy in Texas and his life on the cattle drives up through "Indian Territory" into Kansas.  We learned that they had whistle-fruit (beans), coffee and biscuits for almost every meal.  We also learned that they rode ranch horses so they couldn't take off in the middle of the cattle drive.

We learned that it was a hard life, but a good paying one for young men coming home from war.

 Belt loops---we earned Good Manners, Geography, and Map & Compass here and Steve and his minions were AWESOME!

Thursday saw thunder and lightning and drizzle.  The boys loved breaking out their rain-gear!

 They didn't like the fact that it was thundering and therefore NO POOL TIME!  Instead we learned how to rescue each other without getting into the water.  The pool staff was great and very patient.

 Of course the rain didn't really come down until lunch time!  We hunkered down under our ponchos and ate our lunches in the rain...it was fun :-) 

 Marbles in the dirt!  Another fun day at the belt loop station...we didn't earn the belt loop, but we will be able to teach the Wolf den how to play marbles this winter when we all might earn the belt loop.

These are the last pictures I have of day camp.  It was fun and they had a lot of fun activities...we're looking forward to next year!