Sortie Scouts

Yesterday sure was an exhausting day; as Juliana Alvarez took part in her second outing as a Chefftaine.
A role composed of animating, guiding and reprimanding 18 little boy scouts.

Picture of the whole group together.

These boy scouts ages eight through eleven although super cute were also quite demanding yesterday.
And being one of three Chefftaines I had an important role in the success the day.

Making the trek from the locale to the church.

They decided it would be funny to ring every doorbell we passed..

After church we quickly headed to the camp site and began making the fire.

The fire just would not start.

 As usual the first and most important thing we do when we get to the place were we will be spending the day is make a fire. The fire is crucial as it is our only source of warmth and cooking.
Normally the fire is done and over in 45 minutes or so which leaves us with cooked food and time to do the evening activities. This was not the case yesterday, as due to the wind the fire was simply impossible to keep up and being in a prairie there was not a lot of wood to be found either.
Because of this we ended up eating basically raw rice and cold soup (needless to say there were a lot of left overs).But Thank goodness for the snack we had previewed (bananas and chocolate marble cake made by Amelie).

One of the other Chefftaines disguised as the vulture from the book of the jungle.

Doing their best to pass the tennis ball with their feet.

Go go go!!

Digging a group of them found a "treasure" which they so beautifully recovered up at my request.

All in all it was worth it at the end of the day, as they all went back relent-fully to their parents and anxious for the next outing. As for me I was cold from the tip of my nose to my toes but happy as well for being able to help out in the community.