Camp Bud Schiele – Thursday & Friday Update

It was great to see those parents that were able to make the trip to Camp Bud Schiele on Thursday evening.  The Family Night Cannon Firing was an awesome event.  I’m glad that you were able to experience it with our scouts.

It is a shame that the evening’s pageantry was cancelled, but I am glad that we were able to carry on with our own ceremony to recognize those scouts and scouters who had been elected by their peers into the Order of the Arrow.  Please remember to visit the Skyuka Lodge webpage to get signed up the the Summer Ordeal Event on August 10-12, 2012.  The website is www.skyukalodge.org.

As we near the end of the weeklong adventure, energy levels seem to be on the rise and the boys spirits are high.  Several of our scoutmasters are participating in the scoutmaster golf classic this morning where they play nine shortened holes using a single golf club that they made themselves.  Merit badge classes are half as long today as during the rest of the week, and all will be finished before lunch.

Kudos go out to Matthew Heidenreich, who was the ONLY scout in his Climbing merit badge class to actually complete the merit badge.

Our afternoon will be full with the catapult competition, the Grand Ole Adventure (a series of games of skill where troops are awarded points), the chariot race, the scoutmaster belly flop and the relay race.

This evening, weather permitting, we’ll have our closing campfire and awards ceremony before heading back to camp for watermelon and cobler and then off to bed.

It sounds like we may very well get an earlier start than expected from camp tomorrow with a staff member showing up at camp by 7:45 to assist us with getting packed up and checked out.  We may very well be out of camp by 9:30 or 10am.  That would put us back in Fort Mill between 11:30am and 1pm.  We’ll be calling when we are about 30 minutes away from Fort Mill so you will have time to meet us at the Bi-Lo parking lot (where we departed).