The Vaille Family: Scout camp out at Marr's cabin

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Scout camp out at Marr's cabin

Last weekend we went on a scouts family camp out to one scout's family treasure, a cabin with a pond on 60 acres surrounded by national forest.

Every one's favorite place to be was on the pond.

Lexi is a little to short to reach the paddles on the paddle boat while sitting, but that didn't slow her down.

We went on a hike in the nearby national forest. We discussed with the scouts how a fire 9 years ago burned down this area. There were 10 boy scouts hiking in this area when the fire started, they found the pond at Marr's cabin and cut hoses, planning on having to be in the pond as the fire burned. They were rescued, but this story showed the boys how scouts are always prepared for any situation.

The highlight of the hike was letting each kid climb this rope latter up one of the highest rocks and check out the view. Several Dad's helped to ensure everyone made it up and down safely.

I hung out on another rock and let the kids do the climbing.

Lexi didn't have any trouble hanging with the boys. She even had James taking her on hikes.

Troy, Miles and I waited our turn and got out on the pond too.

"Please take me in the canoe Daddy"

Sometimes you just need to get away from the boys and color. (I guess Miles doesn't really count as a boy yet)

Where is your paddle Troy? The only person to fall off a boat and into the pond all weekend was Troy. All of his scouts got a big kick out of it!

Jeremiah was nice enough to take his brother on several rides.

Miles love to play with bugs. After a few minutes this beetle had enough and flew away.

All the kids did surprisingly good on the canoe.

We got brave enough to let the girls have control.

Jeremiah tried out a kayak for the first time. I was pretty nervous letting him go out in it, but he did great and went out several times. He said the kayak was his favorite part of the weekend.