The Last Year of Cub Scout Camp for Nolan.

This year the theme of day camp was the amazing race. Nolan wasn't too sure about it the first 2 days, but the last 2 days, his attitude was a lot better and he had fun. I went up with him on the last day. Each station had a theme of a state on it. They learned about the U.S. as well as the info in the stations.

One of the states we went to was Wisconson to play a Fear Factor type game. THe boys got points for the things that they ate. Small points were given for things like gummy bears, lettuce and seasame candy. then, there were the harder levels with higher points for things like dried anchovies, dried larve and dried grasshoppers. The last 2 items were live grasshoppers and mealworms. (at 1000 points each)

Here Nolan is eating a dried larve. It was cheese flavored and told the boys that they tasted like a cheeto. Nolan agreed.

Here he is feasting upon a dried grasshopper. (It had sour cream and onion flavoring on it. They told Nolan that it tasted like popcorn, but he wasn't so sure about that)

Here is the mealworm that Nolan was given. Tried as he might, he just couldn't do it. Nolan was the only one that didn't eat a live bug- but he was okay with that. They had chocolate sauce to dipp the live bugs in. What made me laugh was that Conner (Nolan's friend and our neighbor) said, "Wow, nature tastes good in chocolate."

Then they went to Wyoming (I think it was) to practice bb gun shooting. They let me sit by my son and shoot too. I was all over the place until Nolan showed me what to line up in order to aim better.- (duh)

I was amazed at my son's shooting skills.Here he is in Alaska. He got to go fishing for trout. (I think the fish and game helped with the big bins with the fish in them. Nolan was looking forward to this station for 2 days and when he finally got to do it- he wasn't able to catch a fish. Some boys got lucky- but mostly the fish were done being caught and released by then. Then we went to the state of Indiana. They had soap box race cars there and one station was so that the boys could push leaders. Even though I had already been pushed, Nolan didn't get a turn at pushing his mom and kept asking me until finally another woman there said, "Your son really wants to push you." (I just felt bad cuz I knew it wears the boys out) I agreed and let him treat me to a fun ride.
Nolan is in the white helmet.

Here he is, ready to go!

I am sure gonna miss cub scout camp for the next 2 years (until Bridger is ready)