Arise Sir Knight

This years day camp was an absolute blast, and as promised I have brought you some pictures. We tried to implement the theme of knights through out the entire camp. All of the various activities that the boys were involved in had some sort of theme element involved. For example, knife saftey was to teach a good knight how to take care of his sword. The area where day camp was held, became the kingdom of Cubablot ruled by the good King Akela. Akela was away at the time fighting and an evil lord named Mordred was harassing the kingdom and trying to take over. Mordred made a few menacing appearances during camp, but in the end Akela returned and set about searching for a great champion to vanquish the evil Lord Mordred. A champion was found, but it was detrmined that he would need help in his quest to restore peace to the kingdom. He set about to recruit more knights. The champion gave a list of the skills needed to become a knight (all the skills that cub scouts had worked on all week) and it was determined that all the boys in camp qualified and were therefore knighted. With that many knights in the kingdom the cowardly Lord Mordred fled to never be seen again.

This is the good King Akela and his Kight Champion

(yes, I am the knight and yes I built the armour myself out of fun foam)

This is one of my camp rangers enjoying a quick bite to eat.

I love the court jester costume.

At the end of camp each den of boys gets to perform a skit. In this one I am supposed to be a table. At the end of the skit they leave a full glass of water sitting on my back and then pretend to forget all about me and walk away. I am then left to try and get the cup of water off my back but enevitabley I get all wet. It is good for some laughs from the boys and on a hot day I really dont mind getting a little wet.

This was the games area. You cant see everything very well, but basically it was a relay race where the boys would joust a baloon, slay a dragon and rescue a fair maiden. One of the funniest things that happened here was at the end of one of the races one of the little boys was holding the fair maiden ( a barbie doll ) and yelled "What do I do next, I don't like girls!!"

There are a lot of BSA requirements that need to be conformed to when running a cub scout activity. Every year my staff and I go through the list and make sure that we are meeting or exceeding all the requirements. These are the inspectors that checked out our camp, what they are handing me is a flag and a certificate to show the we are nationaly certified. YAY!!

We had some strange visitors at camp this year. An odd french man with a pet dragon came to entertain us a bit. Kevin is the former camp director and a good friend of mine. It is aways nice to have him stop by for a few laughs.

It takes a lot of people to run a camp. I could never do it without the help of my wonderful staff. I am not sure what I am being told here, but I am sure it was very important.

This is my assistant camp director Micheal Butz. He was and is a tremendous help, and if anyone says camp isn't hard work I just show them this picture of him getting some well derserved bits of rest.

The leaders are not the only one who get tired after a day at camp.

When it is done and over, it takes a couple of days to clean things up and put everything away. This year, part of our clean up fell on Father's Day and the girls decided to surprise us with a couple of cakes. How sweet of them.

In addition to some cakes, we had a big fajita fry and celebrated the end of camp as well as a good Father's Day for everyone involved. This is our camp medical officer Donna Hare, I guess she didn't trust my cooking.

Ahh, another camp done, I am both happy and sad. At least I can start looking forward to next year. Pirates will be the theme so I better start growing my pirate beard now.!!