Father & Son's Campout

Each year we have a Church Father & Son's campout.  While the purpose is to commemorate the restoration of the Priesthood, it also gives us guys a chance to get together with our sons and have a bonding experience.  The campout is usually pretty well attended, although this year was a little low - I counted around 40 guys this time.

One of the great things about this particular campout is great food!  We usually do a lot of dutch oven cooking.



Rachel also made us a desert to put on the hot coals.  It was a sugar cone filled with marshmallows, chocolate, and banana chunks - wrapped in aluminum foil.  It was a hit with the kids!



There was also a fireside - complete with silly camp songs, skits, and talks.  It concluded with some s'mores.



We were also next to a nice little creek.  There is something about boys (little and big) that we like to throw things into the water and make dams.  It kept many occupied for hours.

In the morning we were treated to an awesome eggs & french toast breakfast.  After packing up, we went to some natural water slides.  We encountered this guy on our hike:



We think he is a non-poisonous king snake, because the orange stripes don't touch the white ones.

The natural slides were pretty neat.  We didn't come prepared to get wet, so we just checked them out.  It was extremely slippery!  I even slid down once without my consent.



We also spent some time finding some geocaches.  It is a new hobby of ours.  The kids really like it and so I take them on hunts to find caches.  There were a few near the slides and near our camp.



We had a great time in the great outdoors!