Day 8 Jambo: Doing our favorite activities!

Yesterday afternoon it was announced the first 150 boys to show up at a church tent would receive a hand-carved bolo tie.  You would have thought they were made of gold.  Half the troop got up at 5:45 in order to make the 2 mile hike to be some of the first in line. The breakfast crew got up at 5:30 in order to go get the food for breakfast so that the boys could eat before they left. 

Do these sound like our boys?  :)

Here is a sample of the hand carved bolo ties given out at the LDS tent:

Today will be another day of fun activities. After a bagel and cream cheese breakfast, some of the boys left for mountain biking high up in the mountainous, others went rock climbing with the plan to follow that with gun and bow shooting.  A third went to the BMX tracks with a plan to go mountain long boarding afterwards.  

This is at the "Low Gear" mountain biking course.

Today and tomorrow, as well as last Wednesday Thursday and Friday, 1/5 of the camp either leaves on buses to do a service project somewhere in the state of West Virginia (That's about 4-5,000 boys doing a service project every day.) or goes on a trek to the true summit of this property to participate in Highland games, and Pioneering and American Indian activities at the Garden Meadow site.  For those remaining behind, it means that the lines for fun activities are shorter!

I look forward to hearing of their adventures!

The boys are hoping Gil the Bus Driver is still following them along.  Gil, here are the boys holding up #41 (Gil's troop number) and shouting GIL!!!

A big shout out to the Assistant Scout master for troup 629 from West Valley City who is following our blog.  Thank you so much for the kind words!  We really appreciate it.

We were about to do dragon boat races:

When we had the largest thunderstorm if the week!:

About 4 inches of rain in about 10 minutes.

So, back to camp for Stew and Biscuits!

Then, at 7:00 PM, a second big storm!

At 8:30 in the stadium, the LDS church sponsored a "Family Home Evening" to celebrate their 100 year anniversary of involvement with scouting.  President George Albert Smith was pleased with the training program for boys developed in 1907 by Lord Robert Baden-Powell, and the church incorporated scouting just 6 years later.  (The moon rising over the stadium, light steaming through the mist from the left of the photo.)

These boys hardly like each other! 

A couple more boys favorite activities.

Sam Peterson:  Rock Climbing.

Davis Newman:  BMX: