Day One Hundred and Twenty-One: last day of camp already ..

Last day of camp already, but it was a busy one as usual. Wake up time was 8am, but a lot of us were up earlier than that. I got up around 7.15 and Tiina and Stuart were already awake, as well as a few Scouts who were helping them build a fire to keep us all warm. I was lovely and toasty last night, so no worries for me there and none of the Scouts complained they were cold either, so that’s a bonus.

For breakfast, one leader from each pack had to go to a different troop as a guest. Tiina and Stuart both voted for me … so at 9am off I went to 1^st Aylmer Troop who were next door. Before I went though (as I had just under 2 hours) I had a bowl of oatmeal and jam to get me through. At the other site I had a huge breakfast! As many pancakes as I could eat, as well as bacon and a sauce called Fancy Molases (very thick and very sweet) They also had potatoes and beans to offer me, but as I don’t eat them, the Scouts finished them off.

Opening horseshoe was at 10.30am, where we had Scouts Own and the guests for breakfast had to give a short report about how it had gone. One leader was greeted by waitresses and a menu written on birchwood and another leader had performances by egg jugglers.

After Scout’s Own the Scouts lashed together a travois (a square with a cross through it) and then raced these. Our troop came third out of 5, so this wasn’t bad, considering their rope broke and the rider flew off mid race.

 

Next up was lunch where we started to take down the site before closing horseshoe at 1pm. Of course we didn’t get everything done by the time closing occurred, but we came back and finished it after. At the closing Tiina went into the middle and said the group were privileged to have a leader from England join their group for the past four months … cue my redness! Then she called me into the centre and gave me a Scout activity t-shirt (in one half of the troops colours) that the whole group had signed … cue tears. Awww, it was so sweet. I’m going to miss these guys so much when I go. But I’ll see them Tuesday at the meeting … my last meeting too.

 

At 2ish we left the site and Marilyn was again bringing me back to the church. We went on a small detour on the way back to see the covered bridge, but didn’t get out as I was so tired. Once back at he church we all unloaded the gear and put it back in the Scout locker before Tina gave me a lift back to Brent’s. I gave both her and Stuart a hug to thank them, Tiina a bigger hug as she won’t be at the meeting on Tuesday and then took my stuff into Brent’s house. First thing I did was have a lovely shower and as usual the tan went. Then I used a proper toilet … yeah forgot to say, it was outhouses all weekend for me and they are freaky! Even Stuart agreed that the place gave him the creeps.

Before dinner I had a quick chat to Alex as we haven’t been in contact all weekend. Dinner was corn on the cob and BBQ’d burgers, mmm. I didn’t think I was hungry, but I must have been, I ate the corn and two burgers … well I say ate, I practically inhaled them.

After dinner we all watched a few episodes of Dead Like Me, but by 10pm I was shattered and went to bed. The weekend had caught up with me. Night!