Day 2 started bright and early… like before 7am early… which wouldn’t have been terrible if we’d gone to be at 10. Or if we hadn’t woken up at 2am to go to the bathroom (because we drank over 100oz of water on Thursday) and then had to dodge the black ants that I apparently startled by disturbing the toilet in what can only be described as a glorified outhouse, and then coming back to the tent and being unable to sleep because you had 2 hours sleep and the worlds largest and loudest cricket is singing beside your tent… so yea, 6:40 am came EARLY!

But it was awesome to watch the boys raise the flag at our campsite first thing 🇺🇸♥️

Then it was down the hill and Good Morning Woodfield! After breakfast, we headed to the pool for a few of our folks to complete their swim test… the organization was… well… not like I would have done it…

But whatever, we finally were cleared and off to boating we went. Thank you Jesus for keeping us from tipping over because for a while there I thought it was inevitable. But we made it! It is hard to rationalize as a 10-year old that to turn your boat left, you have to paddle on the right.And after some proper motivation (read: I’ll buy you a slush puppee) we got our rowing figured out.

Then it was off to archery…

We headed to lunch and after a little creative liberties with the scheduling, we worked in an hour of free swim. It was hot! and Leo and I thoroughly enjoyed just floating for an hour. We spent the rest of the afternoon at the range with BB’s and some more archery

And then finally we had some free time to just whittle some of wood with these prized whittling chips. By whittle, we mean, take a piece of wood and sharpen the end of it. 🤣

Before dinner, we watched as the color guard lowered the flag, and mail call!!!! I wish Leo had someone to write him at camp ♥️♥️♥️ – thank you Maw-Maw, Bobo and Nana! You sure made thus boy feel loved ♥️♥️♥️

Laser shooting was on the agenda for the Arrow of Light troops after dinner

And then we spent some time having a slush puppee and, you guessed it, some wood whittling 🤦🏻‍♀️

Our last even of the day was a Flag Retirement Ceremony led by Scuba Steve. Scuba Steve is a retired navy seal who serves as the aquatics director here at Woodfield. He spent some time explaining the history of our flag and places he had seen the flag flown during his service. He also got a little emotional talking about friends he had lost in the service. The boys all love Scuba Steve and were so reverent during this…He then invited and veterans, emergency responders, scout leaders, and Eagle Scouts to come on stage a give one last salute as they retired each section of the flag.

The entire troop sat mesmerized throughout this, I even saw one little guy simply salute.

I’m so so glad Leo and I were able to see this. Most folks won’t even hush during the national anthem, so it was pretty impressive to watch a whole group of people properly retire a flag.

Tomorrow is day three, and the schedule is just as packed 🤪🤪🤪

(I’m just praying the loud cricket has moved the heck on by now 🤣😂🤣)