Good Evening Troop 58 Family,
It has been a great 24 hours at Camp Olmsted. I hope to provide you a peek into the lives of your sons’ while we are at Summer Camp. I haven’t taken as many pictures as I had hoped but I know that Mr Parikh and Mr Bonina have taken some as well as our Troop Historian Jack Lawrence. As you may have heard, the cell phone service and internet access here at Olmsted isn’t very good but we will add to the Picasa Photo Albums when we can.
We got to Camp Olmsted on Sunday around 12-12:30pm and one of the first things that we did was get acquainted with where will be calling home for the next 5 days. The boys picked their tents, setup their mosquito netting and sleeping bags, and said Hi to the prior residents (the daddy long leg spiders) as they swooshed them out the door.
Then we got a tour of the camp and were introduced to the staff at each program area: Scoutcraft, Handicraft, Ecology, Trailhead, Shooting Sports, Aquatics, etc.
Once we got the the Lake, all the boys got to show off their awesome swimming form!
After that we were able to go back to the campsite and continue to setup their tents and get explore a little. This week we are just one of many Troops at Olmsted and there will be a little more than 500 scouts and adults. With so many at camp, they break our meals into shifts: A and B. Our Troop has B meals, which means we eat breakfast at 8:20am and 6:20pm. On Sunday night, we met at the parade field at about 6:15pm ready for the flag ceremony and, of course, all of the boys were hungry and ready to eat.
After throwing down the Taco dinner that the camp provided, we went back to the campsite until we had to leave for our Opening Campfire at 8:45pm. This was a great traditional opening campfire with skits and songs by the camp staff. After the campfire, the Troop returned to the campsite to go to sleep. As is customary with the Troop: in bed at 10pm, and lights out and quiet at 10:30pm. The boys didn’t quite make it at those times, but were close. This will ensure they will be extra tired for tomorrow night.
Photos from Sunday are found in the Online Photo Gallery.