For the Love!: Family Fun at Grizzly Halloween Camp

Sunday, October 30, 2016

Family Fun at Grizzly Halloween Camp

This weekend we packed up Miriam and Zipporah and passed them on to Grandpa and Grandma so the rest of us could enjoy the Cub Scout Grizzly Halloween Camp at Camp Hansen.

I attended Camp Hansen for Girl Scouts a million years ago and loved it. I went as a Junior to the week-long camp two or three times and then as a Cadette to the 10 or 12 day-long camp three times, I believe. I followed it up by being a Resident Assistant for the next four years. I LOVED Camp Hansen and have so many wonderful memories there. It was great to go back and enjoy it with my family. (minus two :)

Setting Up Camp

Rebekah and Paul set up the kid tent. Rebekah, Samuel, Jacob, and Paul all slept here.

Jacob stopped to smile as he and Samuel were working with Daddy to set up the tent Gordie, Peter, and I slept.

More "tenting" -- these pictures might be out of order.

Peter checking out the nature.

And he likes it!

Weblos Learning Stuff

I believe they were making a fire here. Samuel is tucked in on the right.

Peter and I

Peter and I trucked ALL OVER Camp Hansen and it was great. The scenery is a lot how I remembered it, though some things have changed. The roads are bit different, the Lake is missing some trees and the water is definitely up. But generally, the feel of the camp -- the smells, the air, the peace, the nature -- it's all there. And it is good.

Samuel and Rebekah are Weblos age, so they did their thing separate from the other groups. Gordie is a co-leader of that group, so he mostly hung out with them. Jacob and Paul adventured around with the rest of Pack 133 for their activities.

Peter and I floated around trying to catch up with everyone. We wandered out to the Weblos, then back to see Jacob and Paul do bouldering. Then back to the Weblos, then lunch with Jacob and Paul, then nap (but it was too hot in the tent for a nice long nap -- this was more like a sip of a nap) And then out to see Rebekah and Samuel do bloudering, and back to the dining hall for Jacob and Paul to make pumpkins. And this is only about half the day. Our time there was PACKED FULL!!

Selfie with Peter, to try and capture some oft he gorgeous scenery.

2nd Selfie -- Peter looking the right way.

Wide-open spaces.

Peter checking out the tent before our short nap.

Bouldering Fun

Paul

Paul and Jacob

Paul on the wall.

Jacob on the wall.

Rebekah and Daddy on the wall. He was showing her how to do it "properly."

Rebekah

Samuel

Samuel on the wall.

Arts and Crafts

Samuel and Rebekah with their pumpkins.

This is Jacob's little clay pumpkin he made.

Jacob was so proud he made a little imprinted J on the back of his pumpkin.

Here is Paul's clay pumpkin creation.

Paul was so excited that he had put "a butt" on his pumpkin. -- Oh little boys!

Jacob and Paul.

I have no idea what they are doing here, but it looks kind of crafty. Of course, they might just be eating chips for lunch. Hard to tell.

Halloween Fun

Gordie braiding Rebekah's hair so she could be Wednesday (on a Saturday :) -- It was actually really dark at this point, after sunset, and he is doing this by flashlight. The flash on my camera definitely lit it up for a moment, though.

Rebekah as Wednesday. Too bad we ran out of time to powder her face.

Peter the puppy (outfit courtesy of Grandma -- for one of the older children when they were a baby -- I think maybe Jacob).

Happy puppy Peter.

Peter later morphed into a dinosaur puppy.

Daddy and his dino-puppy.

I added this photo to show Samuel's costume (his gi, he went as an Aikido student) and Jacob has a turtle shell on his back (he went as a ninja turtle, dressed like a cub scout). Paul was a dinosaur. Gordie has the pictures of them on his phone and I have not been able to retrieve them yet.