Sunday, just before noon we rendezvoused at “Scout Hall” to take five of our eleven Venturers (one would be joining us later that evening) to Broad Creek for Venturing Week. This was a week set aside by the scout camp for Venture crews. The turnout was much better than last year, but there still weren’t enough to fill the camp, so additional Boy Scout troops attended as well.
We drove up in two cars full of kids and baggage, arriving just as registration began. It was a little disorganized, and we weren’t sure where to go, because there was no one to meet the Venture crews and orient them. Eventually we figured out that the girls were in one camp and the boys in another. We unloaded bags and occupied tents.
We wandered down to the pool area, where we all completed the swimming test — all passing. A couple of the youth leaders gathered the Venturers for some team building events and game, including Captain on the Deck.
Another activity planned by the youth leaders was tie dying shirts. For those crews that didn’t have Class A uniforms, the tie dyed shirts were meant to suffice for V-week.
Everyone then got into their Class A uniforms for evening retreat ceremony on the parade field, followed by dinner in the chow hall.
At dark the camp staff put on a terrific campfire show, including a number of really humorous skits, many of which I hadn’t seen before. The camp director, Hank, gave a stirring rendition of a poem with all the lights turned out.
The show concluded with the camp staff singing the Broad Creek song, and we all filed back to our tents for some shut eye.