Boys weekend

By all accounts the Beaver stay was a great one. Tomas is Soooo excited - he built a speed boat out of Styrofoam that he got to race it in the lake (he even stood in the lake with his puddle boots on!). Then he went rowing in a row boat ... a real actual row boat (technically it was a canoe but he calls it a row boat because you had to row... makes sense to me).

They had pirate games (the theme of the weekend was "Pirates") and played capture the flag (which resulted in a minor Todd injury), built pirate hats and pirate swords, the list goes on.

Todd said it poured and poured all day Saturday but the kids were clueless that the rain was actually landing on them - they were having too much fun. Camp Barnard is a 300 acre site with it's own 14 acre lake so they spent 2 hours touring the camp yesterday. (FYI... Tomas' rain gear worked out well). They spent more of the afternoon and evening making crafts, doing skits and having campfire and "mug up" (snack time for you Guide/Scout neophytes). Then this morning there was on/off sprinkling of rain so they stayed at the camp an hour past their 'checkout time' so they could do more outdoor games.

Tomas begged to have a bath tonight so he could play pirates with his boat in the bathtub! That is definitely a sign of a great weekend.