What a great weekend Troop 282 had. We went on a weekend Overnight to Zion Church Camp. What a great place. We left Trinity Epispoal Church on Saturday morning. Once we reached the Church Camp we unloaded the Troop trailer. Each Patrol set up their Patrol Campsite with tents, Patrol Fly, Patrol Equipment Boxes and Patrol Kitchen. After we ate lunch we had a troop demonstration on how to split wood with our handaxes. After that we had a troop scavenger hunt on nature and the Scout Law. Then we got to play Capture the Flag as a troop. All these events were very fun. Hope we get to do it again. Once we were done with these events the patrol were off to start their fires for dinner. In our case we cooked pork chops in applesauce with green bean, carrots and potatoes all covered with apple pie filling. It seemed to take forever for the food to get done as we were all starving. Thirty five minutes later we had food. It was great. Now clean up must be done.

 After clean up was done our patrol practiced their song and skit for the Troop Campfire. We can’t wait for the campfire to start.  Because after the campfire we have a Troop Cracker Barrel with Cherry, Apple and Black Forest Cherry Cobblers. The cobblers were all great. After cracker barrel everyone went to bed.

On Sunday morning we were awaken at 7:00 PM to start taking down our tents due to a rain storm and heavy winds that were to be coming by 11:00 AM. We all got our personnel gear picked up and moved to our troop bus. Once this was done we got busy taking down all the patrol equipment we set up on Saturday. It is amazing how much faster it comes down than it goes up. Once this was all done we moved our patrol stuff up to the covered shelter where we cooked our bacon, hash browns, eggs and cheese. Once again breakfast was great. The only problem was we had dish to wash and clean up. I wish we could have meals that we didn’t have to clean up. Our Patrol got it done. Then we moved everything to the Troop Trailer.

We then moved to our Troop Church Service. Where we had an Opening Prayer, we sang, had a sermon on Palm Sunday, we sang and had a closing prayer.

We then moved to the Troop Bus to head back to Trinity Epsicopal Church where our parents picked us up. What a great weekend. Can’t wait for April overnight. We’re going fishing.