activities and patches at Jambo... Oh My!! xDgt

Because 812 did not finish our setup as planned for yesterday, we woke up early, quickly at breakfast, and went to complete our gateway. At noon, we had our gateway up and a quick orientation out ofthe way. Then, all groups of buddies swarmed out of our campsite to look at everything that Jamboree had to offer.

Bobby Okereke, Mike Swartz, and Paul Swartz participated in a BMX bike race whereas Andrew Markstrum went to the military sites. "The bike race is way more fun with friendly competition with your buddies," remarked Mike, "I beat Bobby all three times!"

Trevor Osaki and Alex Krebs met a cameraman from Adventure Base 100. They got some videos of them on the Rappelling Tower. "It was an adrenaline pumping experience," says Trevor Osaki who always wanted to try the activity.

After a long day, 812ers trickled into the campsite for dinner. Amazingly, hardly any Scouts did many activities. After dinner, everyone reached into their packs and pulled out big bags of patches. Tere were Halo, Star Wars, OA, cars, trains, and surfboard patches sprawled out on every table. It turns our all our Scouts spent the majority of their time trading with other troops. It was an incredible first full day of Jambo!

PICASA IS UPDATED!!

(if you want your son in pictures or quoted in the blog, call them or comment on my blog... I don't follow people around all day, and with all the things going on, I haven't even seen our Scouts during the day for the last day and a half.... tell them to get with a camera buddy... if your Scout is a historian and their pics are not online, they were unable to make my daily deadline of before dinner...)

THANKS!!