Well, it's become a tradition to go camping the first of November at Bott's campground in South Fork. Eric Tuttle went up after lunch to reserve a campground. Thank goodness because the place filled up with other scout troops for the first time. There were 3 other troops camping with us this year. Dad's were invited and we had John B. and Chad W. which was nice. Eric Tuttle, assistant scout master brought his 4 year old son James and he was a really camper. Most of the scouts came ill prepared, some without coats and gloves, while others wore shorts - go figure at 30 degrees in the morning. Pray for them! Some of the meals were interesting too, Subway sandwiches for supper and breakfast. Talk about creative scout cooking skills. Oh well. Congratulations to Eric McEntire who was practicing his scouting skills, who wore a coat and cooked his meal; hamburger on the grill for supper and scrambled eggs for breakfast. We arrived around 6:00 p.m. and proceeded to set up camp, then eat. We played murder around the campfire and headed to bed by 10:00. The coat-less scouts were up at 5:30 a.m. starting a fire. Not sure if they had two sleeping bags and/or blankets for their sleeping bags. The scoutmaster had two scrambled egg omlets and hot chocolate. Many scouts were envious. After breakfast activities included horseshoes, checkers, BB Gun target practice, swinging from a rope hanging from a tree and hanging out. We packed up by 11:00 and were home by noon. The troop provided stoves, pots and pans, cleaning equipment, firewood and fire log (nice to have a couple to get things going).
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