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The Bunch Go Camping with Scouts

This past weekend was our semi annual scout trip. This time it was at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, TX. As usual it was a lot of fun. We arrived on Friday about noon. Friday is a day for setting up camp and visiting with friends. Saturdays from 2-4pm is lesson time for badge work and then at 7:00pm  is a dutch oven contest and dessert bar. Afterward, we build a campfire and the scouts perform their skits and around 9pm we have a flag retirement ceremony. The next morning we have breakfast at 9am and then a church service at 10am. This year D was in charge of the dessert bar and bon fire and the girls and I did breakfast. Cooking for 186 people is challenging on  a good day, but take away modern conveniences like an oven and it becomes a little trickier.  We did it though, however I prefer to just show up and wait in line for breakfast instead of helping to prepare and serve it. The dessert bar is easier because every family contributes one dessert. So lets see there was 186 people there so about 20 families. Yep, us homeschoolers like big families. In all seriousness I think about 25 families were there. Most families have a minimum of 4 kids, but a few families have 8 kids. The average is probably six kids. The bluebonnets were in full bloom on our trip and the weather was gorgeous. We always have a fun time, but the weather and flowers made this an exceptionally nice trip. My body still wasn't completely ready to take the camper out again. Even though it was only a two hour trip and we only stayed 2 nights, I don't think I have completely recovered from the month long road trip we took 6 months ago! I feel fairly confident there will not be any big long camping trips this year, though we are planning to visit relatives in Nebraska, but we won't be camping and only driving there and back........No "it's only 5 hours away".

2 Youngest kids and D play with the dinos.

The Bluebonnets were so pretty.

T looking at the dino print casts

L noticing how deep the footprints were.

T at the indoor museum.


We have crawfish in our ditch, big ones too! (No, we don't eat them)
 

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