Geocaching

We also recently went geocaching.  For those of you who don't know, it's kind of like a treasure hunt using GPS coordinates.  Check it out at Geocaching.org .

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Camp out with the scouts

Last weekend Andrew and I spent the night with his cub scout pack at Camp Tahuaya in Belton.  We had a good time out there.  Andrew really loves camping.  There was a little while when it reminded me of Lord of the Flies and I was scared for my health and safety, but bedtime came soon enough.

Our home for the evening:

 Even thought it's about 25 years old and we were concerned about its capability in the rain, we survived the mist and dew.  I wouldn't trust it in an actual rainfall, though.

The anarchists:

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On the shoreline

The kids and the dog had a blast.  We found out that Cooper fetches underwater.  He thinks he comes back with the rock we threw, but it's highly unlikely.

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Where did the farmer thing come from?

I'm absolutely sure I didn't teach them this.

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mmm... Refreshing.

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Camp mascots

To keep the kids busy while I got the fire started for breakfast, Liz had them make camp mascots.  She brought some googly eyes and glue and had them make faces out of rocks they found at the campsite.  I was shocked at how prepared she was for this.

Oh, and the mascots made it home.

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Morning at the campsite

I tried to get both of them to do this, but Andrew was having nothing of it.  I should have been less subtle, but then he would have just stared at the camera the whole time.

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Matthew likes the soccer games, too.

But he prefers them upside down.

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Andrew playing soccer

Who thought orange and blue were good uniform colors?

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A-"maize"-ing

Whew!  What a busy start to the long weekend.  On Saturday, Andrew had a soccer game, a cub scout trip, and we headed out to the camp site.  Here are a couple photos from the cub scout trip, the soccer game pics are forthcoming.

About 20 miles north of us is the Kaska Family Farm.  They call themselves an "agri-tourism" destination and we met a couple of people there who had made the trek from outside the area just to visit.  It was a pretty cool little farm amusement park, for lack of a better term.  They had hay bales to climb on, an air cannon to shoot, 2 hay rides, and, the star of the show, a maze plowed into their corn field.  We spent about a half-hour wending our way through that maze for a total of about a mile.  The scouts had fun and the adults got to laugh at their orienteering skills.

Here's a link to a Google map, but it doesn't show too much detail.  I'll try to find something with a finer display.

Update: Here's an image of our track through the maze.

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A quick pic of our cool Cub Scout

How do these things attach?

I'm sure this was much more difficult for him than it appears. You see, he's much more used to taking things apart than putting them together.  I'm not sure he even grasped the concept.

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Rockin' the cool monster glasses

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He wasn't upset, just talking.

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Huh? Look what I figured out!

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Another way of getting down a slide.

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... and we're down.

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