Scouting in the Outer Banks

Since Scouting plays such an important part of our lives, I felt that it was important to elaborate on one of the things I only briefly mentioned in the previous post.

Our older son's Boy Scout troop generally camps at least once a month, except during December when we sell Christmas trees. Over the third weekend in January, 7 boys and 3 adults from the troop traveled to the Outer Banks in North Carolina. A family in the troop offered their beach house for the troop to use. Originally, the plan was to leave around 4:00 p. m. on Friday, but many things changed throughout the week, and they were able to move the departure time to 2:00 p. m. Travel down to the Outer Banks went well, and they comfortably settled in for the weekend. Two of the adults were able to have their own bedrooms, and the host shared a room with his son. Four Scouts shared one room, and two brothers shared another. Once they were settled the boys began playing the board game Civilization.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to elicit the details I would have liked from my son to expand this post as I had originally intended. So I will post it with the barest of details that I do know.

Saturday was a busy day. They visited Kitty Hawk and the Wright Brothers Memorial. They also toured Roanoke Island and the site of the Lost Colony. Finally, they went to Jockey's Ridge to experience the sand dunes.

Additional board games that were played over the weekend included Rail Baron and The Settlers of Cataan. As it was just a short trip, they left Sunday morning to return home.