It’s nice to be back home again, but I sure love camping. Even if it’s full of bugs and dirt. I even love it when it rains like it did this morning as we were packing up.
We did stop by the East side of the lake and pick up the Boy Scout themed geocache, which was cool because I picked up a 1999 Big Event pin. Though I doubt that I’ll hold on to it, because I generally only like to collect patches and pins for events that I attended.
We’re spending the weekend camping at Willard Bay. So today we spent the day at the beach, which my kids loved.
My son and I spent some of the time geocaching, but unfortunately the caches in the park had been vandalized but we were able to get in a decent hike of a couple of miles and spent some quality time together.
We also went to Brigham City for some Peach City Ice Cream. Tonight we roasted some marsmallow’s (correction: the kids roasted marshmallow’s, I drank Black Cherry and ate Nilla’s). Tomorrow we head for home.
With the new policy from the National BSA offices, as of January 1, 2010 I’ll be given duties closer to base camp.
I’m sure that my wife won’t object.
As a kid my grandparents had a membership to CamperWorld. We went there quite a bit. I have fond memories of several trips to Bear Lake as a kid and staying at the campground up there.
They’ve since sold their membership, but I’ve wanted to purchase one and start going again. After reading this story, I’m kind of glad that I haven’t.
We made homemade Won Tons for dinner tonight. We didn’t do anything fancy, but they were pretty good. I actually thought that they would be a pretty simple and easy meal to make on a Scout camp out.
We bought the Won Ton wraps at Wal*Mart, then took Cream Cheese and canned chicken and mixed it together, put a small amount in the middle of the wrap, closed it up, put it into the hot oil and let it cook. With a little modification, you could easily make them at camp. Basically you could use a Dutch Oven instead of a Fry Daddy and you’re good to go.
For Dessert we just filled them with Cream Cheese and dipped them in Strawberry and/or Chocolate Syrup.
The nice thing is that they were cheap to make, very filling, interactive to make and good to eat.
We also had Fortune Cookies, and if you’ve been following me and fortune cookies for a while you know my luck with them.
Well, I had two. The first one said that I would be getting a new home in an area full of sunshine in the next year (not sure that I really want to live in Florida) and I can’t find (or remember) the other one right now for some reason, but it had something to do with new opportunities coming up.