Ian camping with the Boy Scouts

Ian had a campout with his new Troop this weekend, and had a blast!  The Scoutmaster has a house on Lake Anna, and hosted the Troop for this campout.  Saturday was a full day of activities, which Ian used to work towards his advancement to Second-Class Scout.

The water there was super warm, about 80-85F, so the boys spent about 4 hours swimming and jumping off the dock.  We woke up this morning to a pretty awesome sunrise.

Ian was up early, partly because his tent-mate got up to go fishing at 6:30 am.  Ian was lucky enough that his tent-mate's father brought some extra fishing gear, and let Ian do some fishing.

Ian caught two sunfish, both of which were kind of small, but Ian was rightly proud of his catch (and release)!

Later, we went for a 5-mile hike and then Ian finished up some requirements for his First-Class Scout rank.  Here he is jumping in to "save" a swimmer, he has a rope tied around him, then swam around the swimmer, pulled her up from behind while the Scoutmaster (on the dock) reeled them both in to safety.

All in all, we both had a great time.  Hope everyone has a great day.  Cheers!

Marc