This last weekend we loaded the car to the brim with backpacks, sleeping bags and coats, and took the boys (and their friend Carlos) to Carney Park for the Mediterranean Boy Scout
Camporee. It was a freezing weekend, and I hated to leave them there in the icy wind, but Steve told me all boys have to be subjected to LONG, COLD nights as a rite of passage. (The Scout Master was so cold in his tent, that he checked in on the boys in the other tent at 5 am to take pulses to make sure everyone was still alive)
I needn't have worried. In their sub zero bags they were fine and they were so tired from the daily activities that they slept like logs. Brendan's team took first place in the sport activities and Trevor's took 3rd. Pretty good out of 150 kids.
After the events, one Scout stopped Trevor and told him he was the most physically fit kid he had seen. Trevor scaled the rock wall like he was a monkey (he learned to climb palm trees while on Guam, and it came in handy). In fact, the news crew that was out there interviewed Trevor and he was on the military AFN News.
This is their cute patch with Mt.
Vesuvius erupting in the background...funny since Carney park, where they camped, is a defunct volcano...not funny as Mt.
Vesuvius is active and can erupt at any time. Thankfully no lava spurted this weekend or my poor boys would be one of those frozen for all time people they dug up in Pompeii. However, they did come home so grimy, they might has well have been covered in volcanic soot
I needn't have worried. In their sub zero bags they were fine and they were so tired from the daily activities that they slept like logs. Brendan's team took first place in the sport activities and Trevor's took 3rd. Pretty good out of 150 kids.
After the events, one Scout stopped Trevor and told him he was the most physically fit kid he had seen. Trevor scaled the rock wall like he was a monkey (he learned to climb palm trees while on Guam, and it came in handy). In fact, the news crew that was out there interviewed Trevor and he was on the military AFN News. 
This is their cute patch with Mt. Vesuvius erupting in the background...funny since Carney park, where they camped, is a defunct volcano...not funny as Mt. Vesuvius is active and can erupt at any time. Thankfully no lava spurted this weekend or my poor boys would be one of those frozen for all time people they dug up in Pompeii. However, they did come home so grimy, they might has well have been covered in volcanic soot
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