Written by the Jaguares…
This was the first campout that nobody asked if we were cancelling….since Mountain SOL never cancels…and it rains every time.
We hiked up the hill to the teepee tent and our scout camp. We laid our stuff out in the tent, stuffed our face with pizza, asked for more, and then took off exploring raptor field with Doug and Hannah! Sabastion and Garrett and Doug found the new pear tree which Elijah climbed and got yummy pears and pegged people with them. Bethany and Senora found a hidey hole called Kablam! because Senora kablamed Benjamin in the face with a large pokey. Oops.
Then it was time to make a fire. Sam and Sabastion went down to get dry firewood from the spruce tree by the old white houses, while Summer and Tommy rushed to construct the fire and everyone else got firewood and Kristian lit up the fire site with his headlamp. Senora kept saying “stay on task, it is going to rain and get dark and you will want a fire.” It rained and got dark and there was still no fire. Bethany went to get marshmallows and snacks (which we are eating still while we type this) because that was the most important thing to do. (more story below picture)
Senora got to help start the fire (because it was raining and dark and there was no fire), Bethany got back and we stuffed our faces…again. It was raining (again) so we sat under our tarp which was kind of dry. We told ghost stories and interrupted each other a lot! Then we all went to get into the tent which was….soaked. =) The tent is on a slope, and it rained all night. At night, everybody slid into each other, Sabastion had his own moat, Bethany gave up her sleeping pad to Kris because it was really wet., and some of us slept and some of did not. In the morning, Senora asked everyone to say if they slept and if they were wet. There were varied responses.
After Senora woke up 50,000 times, after Garrett kicked Bethany in the face when he went to pee (in his socks, with no shoes or pants), then it was morning. Well, not really, actually it was 5:45 in the morning and Senora said, “go to sleep until the sun is up or I will reign down terror upon you.” Bethany was woken up by a “pedo,” otherwise known as a fart. Garrett lost his pants and was gifted yoga pants from Summer and it was really, really, funny. Aidan was smushed against the side of the tent and woke up completely soaked and his bag actually dripped water like a waterfall. Senora pegged breakfast bars at people in her half awake blind pre coffee state. Kristian learned how to roll up his sleeping bag. Finally, it was time to pack up and get out of the soaking tent.
To celebrate Sabastion’s first camp out, and Garrett’s excellent modeling of girl’s yoga pants, Aidan and Benjamin tied them to a tree!!!! We spent our morning playing in Narnia, on the moon, in the catacombs, wrassling, and Summer trying to scare the boys (she almost got Garrett.) Now we are waiting for our parents to come after eating too much sugar that Senora told us not to eat! (But we are eating it anyway)
Mountain SOL NEVER CANCELS!! And we rock!!!!
Comments are closed.