Camping

On May 14-15 I went on the priesthood commemoration campout commemorating the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood (May 15, 1829) somewhere near Reading. The scouts have a small lodge (not for sleeping in) with a couple of open fields surrounded by farmers' fields. A thin line of trees separated our campsite from the fields. When we got there on Friday evening we started off by playing soccer. Then Steve Holmes and I set up our tent while waiting dinner. We had a good barbecue and got the fire going.



Matt Evans, the young mens president, put on a good program in the lodge about the restoration of the priesthood. After that we sat around the campfire for the rest of the night and the young men kept the fire burning.



In the morning after breakfast we played rounders (like softball) and had a competition that the ward has been holding for 11 years. The teams are usually teams of two and matches up fathers and sons, but we matched up by age group pretty well for the rest of us (one "older" married guy with a younger guy) and I was with Rob Perry. We had a relay race, egg toss, push ups, and brick throwing. Unfortunately the brick throw was only measured by how far your brick made it along the measuring tape in one direction so even though mine went quite a distance it went well off to the right and so only made it about 50 feet along the straight line. It was fun, though, and then we packed up and left. It was good to get out and go camping again. Definite highlights had to be having no rain and no mosquitoes. It seems like every time I go camping it rains, and everyone here said it's always weird because it rains a lot normally but their campouts are always dry.