I recently went to a camping trip to camp Royaneh, as part of my Webelos Camp adventure. it was a week long camp and my parents weren't with me. I was with my pack (a group of cub scouts and at least one leader), and it was quite an experience for me. Read about my visit to camp Royaneh !
Camp Royaneh, is located at Cazadero, CA in the midst of a beautiful redwood forest. This time the theme of the campsite was all about Knights! It was really amazing to see that all the staff members were dressed up as knights and princess. It looked like a mini theme park.
I woke up early at 5:00 AM for the big day, saw my parents were packing my bag, sleeping bag and pads. It was my Moms birthday, I gave her a big hug and a kiss and wished her happy birthday. I felt bit sad about leaving off to camp on her birthday. I quickly got ready and we all went to my school parking lot to meet up with the rest of the pack.
It was 6:00 AM and I was half asleep, met my friends and pack leader then we all went to the scout store where the tour bus started. We loaded our bags in the bus and I said bye to my Dad, climbed on the bus with my friends. It took about 2 hours to arrive at camp, we were talking all about Pokemon, minecraft and other video games.
Once we all got down from the bus, we assembled into smaller groups and we went to our tents. Our campsite was named "Fricot Meadows" it was located just few feet away from the cafeteria. Once we reached our tent, we unpacked our bags. In total we were three cub scouts in our tent, all were from my same pack. From our campsite, we had real closer view of the animals like deers, jack rabbits, it had small streams, short bridge and beautiful scenery.
Then, we all went for lunch at the cafeteria. We had a great soup, mashed potatoes and meat loaf, the food was really great, I also learnt good table manners. After a heavy lunch we had an introduction about how to on Archery and BB guns. I was so excited to learn about handling them, I could not wait to try them tomorrow.
After the lessons, we had a grand dinner, with salads, pasta, and garlic bread. After we ate we went to amphitheater, where the camp staff put up a greaat show, they sang fun songs and performed wonderful skits. We all enjoyed it thoroughly, and we all laughed through out the performance, it was all funny.
Finally we all walked down to our tents, unpacked our sleeping bags and slept like a log.
Day 2, Tuesday Aug 5th 2014
We all heard the sound of horns at 7:30 AM, and woke up. I brushed my teeth, got ready, and wore my scout uniform and went to flags ceremony. The camp staff hoisted the American Flag and we all did the scout salute, and sang pledge of allegiance.
We went to cafeteria for our breakfast, I had pancakes, sausages and orange juice.
Our cub masters took us to practice Archery. I was struggling at first then I got a hang of the techniques on handling the bow and arrow.I was doing pretty good at the end of the session.
Then we all went for swimming. First we had to take a test. There were three levels, The Swimmer (who passes the whole test), the beginner (who passes the first half of the test) and non-swimmer (who did not pass). At the first try I got the non-swimmer level and it was very disappointing for me. I finally planned to retake the test and succeed. I really need to plan for this.
We then ate dinner and went to amphitheater. The staff organized several contests for the packs and our pack won second place in knot tying, and we did fairly well in our other contests too.
As everyone was really tired we went back to the tent, I held my bright orange glow stick to lead the path to our camp site. We had a great sleep !
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We went to cafeteria for our breakfast, I had pancakes, sausages and orange juice.
Our cub masters took us to practice Archery. I was struggling at first then I got a hang of the techniques on handling the bow and arrow.I was doing pretty good at the end of the session.
Then we all went for swimming. First we had to take a test. There were three levels, The Swimmer (who passes the whole test), the beginner (who passes the first half of the test) and non-swimmer (who did not pass). At the first try I got the non-swimmer level and it was very disappointing for me. I finally planned to retake the test and succeed. I really need to plan for this.
We then ate dinner and went to amphitheater. The staff organized several contests for the packs and our pack won second place in knot tying, and we did fairly well in our other contests too.
As everyone was really tired we went back to the tent, I held my bright orange glow stick to lead the path to our camp site. We had a great sleep !
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