I am the webelos den leader, so I've had the privilige of being with a great group of boys once a week the whole summer. We've been working on being artists, learning about nature & geology, getting our bicycle and ultimate frisbee belt loops. And to culminate, going to Cub Camp and on a hike to the Ape Caves on Mt. St. Helens-which was AWESOME!The girls and I also have a tradition that we do craft camp while David is at cub camp. Last year we did something every day, I was trying to make up for the fact that we were still currently homeless (we didn't move in for another few weeks) but this year has been a little bit crazy (just a little...)
The ape caves are a series of lava tubes formed thousands of years ago during one of mt. st. helens eruptions. You can only climb down into them in the summer because they are filled with water in the winter but it was a really fun hike for us to go on with the boys. 
The lone girl...what a beauty...there was one smart boy who chose to "loose" his buddy and stuck to Savannah like glue the whole hike.
After hiking into the ape caves we stopped to see the petrified forest. What happened is the trees were covered with lava, but they burned slower than the lava hardened so after the lava hardned and the trees burned away what was left was the imprint of them trunks, fallen trees and roots in the lava. VERY COOL! 
This is what Ben does while we are doing craft camp...
These are two very happy girls crafting beautiful jewelery boxes with paint, and mod podge, and glitter and pretty papers. Oh Heaven!
2 comments:
I am so going to start craft camp.
That looks like a ton of fun I havent been to the ape cave for ever I am going to have to go next time I'm up there.
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