Last Friday morning we woke up in Portland, OR, the day of Tom and Emily's wedding. Guy figured out the coffee maker, and we spent the morning resting and playing the board games that our Airbnb had available.
We went to a nearby Fred Meyer to buy some things we forgot to bring with us. Makeup for me, a plate for the cookies we brought, and a spoon for the salad we brought. Then we picked up lunch from a Thai restaurant, and while we waited for the food, Nico and Guy went to the Baskin Robbins next door for a before-lunch dessert.
The wedding was that afternoon around 4:30. Nico quickly found some kids to play with, two brothers. He played hard with them all night long, running and playing tag, dancing, playing cards, and hitting a pinata.
Tom and Emily both had beautiful vows. After the ceremony there was so much food downstairs to choose from!
After the food downstairs, there was dancing back upstairs where the ceremony was. Nico and his friends dropped in for a brief moment to show off their moves, then they were back to chasing each other around.
They did help clean up the globes from the reception area at the end of the night.
Congratulations Tom and Emily! We love you both and are so happy for you. It was a beautiful wedding.
The next morning we started our trip home. We drove to Pendleton where we stopped for gas and treats and coffee, and then I went one direction to head to Spokane, and the boys went the other.
Monday the boys drove to McCall for Webelos Woods, a Cub Scout camping trip.
Here's Nico looking at the schedule once they arrived. There were several activities each day for the scouts to participate in.
Now Guy is going to take over writing this part of the blog:
Day 1
Met at albersons parking lot to meet other members, 4 other boys were on the trip.
Trip was uneventful (but the road is twisty)!
Got to camp and got registered, then setup camp. After that we met at the firebowl, which was like an open air theatre, where the leadership team introduced themselves. Later (at the main building) we had flag ceremony (taking down the flags) then dinner. Dinner was mac and cheese with hotdogs, with green beans and salad and ice cream. Nico skipped the mac and cheese, and ate mostly green beans, with a little bit of hotdog. And chocolate milk. After dinner was a firearms safety meeting so that it wouldn’t take up all the time during shooting the following day, it was more detailed than in needed to be in all the wrong places.
Day 2
Up at 6am (nico still sleeping). Once we all were up we sat around camp trying to guess what would be for breakfast. No one guessed Cinnimon rolls, which is what we had. They had gluten free donut for nico, as well as gluten free cereal. Everyone was jealous of nico’s donut.
First activity of the day was bb shooting, nico grouped his shots quite well. (see video and pictures).
After that we did sling shots, shooting garbanzo beans at plates. After that ,we did archery (nico’s favorite). All during this time, Nico’s pack members were planning a skit to perform at the nights fire bowl gathering.
Then, it was lunch time, which was chicken nuggets and tater tots. Nico had a grilled chicken breast, but didn’t like the tater tots. More cholate milk. We had KP duty, so we spend about half an hour cleaning up, because the kids didn’t know how to mop or sweep or anything. After lunch was a first AID class, where Ironically nico got a sudden and gushing bloody nose. We went to the first aid area and had it attended to, but it was several minutes before it stopped bleeding. We returned to the first aid class, apparently missing nothing. After first aid was a “cast away” class where the kids got to learn some survival tips. They attempted to cook biscuts on a stick over the fire (mostly they just fell in the fire) and then cooking poached eggs in the fire (nico got mostly shell in his and didn’t like it) they also learned about some native plants some dangerous and some edible. Nico tried some “bear moss” which he thought tasted like salad. Ayden, one of his packmates thought it tasted like wet shirt.
Dinner was early this evening, to allow for some free time to swim. Dinner was hamburgers. (gluten free bun for nico, and chocolate milk) Nico also got a squishy toy thing at the trading post, and tipped a little so that the tradepost workers would sing the tip song. Nico elected not to swim, so instead we played apples to apples at the main building, then he did some bead work (which he didn’t finish) Then it was off to fire bowl, where various people did skits. Nico’s pack did a skit related to a person getting ready for hiking, and defeating various obstacles including sun, bugs and fire, only to be defeated by a bear (played by Nico) I didn’t film that. They also retired two flags (via burning) which was pretty incredible to see, including a gun salute (4 shots total) Then it was bed time.
Day 3
Nico was very sleepy (see nico’s hair and sleepy face picture).
He said he would have kept sleeping if I hadn’t woken him up. We mostly packed up camp in the morning before Nico’s troup did the flag ceremony in the morning, with some help from some of the leaders (we didn’t have enough kids for a full ceremony) they did pretty well. (video).
Breakfast was cheese omelets and sausage, with watermelon (picture). During the class I snuck away and packed up the rest of camp. By then, nveryone was ready to go home, and the ride was uneventful.
There was one final class for nico, which was a cast iron cooking class. They made pankaes (one for me) and cobbler (picture).
We unpacked the car, then got to relaxing (on the switch).
Ok now it's Joanna again.
Today was a Grandma Camp day and tonight Nico is staying the night at Grandma and Papa's house. I am picking him up tomorrow when I get back into town from Spokane. Here are Nico and Papa reading together.
A major video of snippets will be coming next week! I have a lot of video snippets to catch up on. Stay tuned next week for birthday video snippets, and snippets from camping.
