Cub Scout Camp Out

Jacob's entire existence in cub scouts has been to go camping, and we got to go this past weekend. It was a long drive up to the site, a couple miles shy of North Carolina. We had great weather, a bit chilly during the night and early morning, but very pleasant through out the day.
This was my first time camping too, so I didn't know what to expect myself. In my head we were gonna have a long mile or two hike from the car to the camp site. We'd have to find the most level spot we could to set up the tent. Our bathroom would be the great outdoors. There would be no water except what we brought. I guess I'd been watching the Military Channel too much, I really thought we'd be roughing it. The camp site was just feet from the parking area, so that was easy. We had a wood platform to set the tent on. A thank you to Melanie for the tent, and lots of the campers were jealous of our small easy to setup tent instead of their behemoths. There was running water, and we had a bathroom. Plus the cub scout pack has a huge trailer that hauls all of this gear to make for an easy camp out. They had portable stoves and huge drink coolers. For dinner we had roast beef in gravy, rice and green beans, plus a salad. I thought we'd be cooking a hot dog over an open fire. Then the breakfast was waffles and sausage or cereal and hot chocolate to drink. The food was actually very good. Jack let us use two of his pocket knives and Jacob whittled a point on a couple of sticks to roast his marshmallows. He was quite proud of himself for this one and he did a nice job of being safe.

One of the big things on this trip was that the scouts all got to make a rocket and have the rocket group launch it. This event was really neat. Jacob was very proud of his rocket and we can actually launch it again. The rockets went about 100-200 ft and they had a streamer to act as the parachute. When all the rockets had launched all the kids got to go in the field and find their rocket. We also had a competitive game of ultimate frisbee, the adults were very into it, but it remained cordial, but a tad intense. It was fun to get out and really run though, and my back was ok. My heart was pounding, but my back made it through, yeah.
During the campfire in the evening the dens all did skits, our den only had two kids so the den leader and I helped out and were in the skit with the kids. That was pretty fun. Because Jacob joined scouting late he hadn't had his wolf ceremony. So I got to paint his face in front of all the people at the camp out and stand with him when he was recognized as having passed the wolf stage. Jacob loved the paint on his face. He wanted me to paint his face again when we got home so his mom could see. That was a big deal to Jacob.
We were both pretty tired the next day, the cool night and all the activities made for a sleepy day on Sunday. We had a great time and are both ready to go again.