This weekend we had our annual Summer camp at the Emmaus Youth Village in Consett. We arrived on Friday evening, and after pitching our tents, we celebrated the birthdays of two Wolf Cubs with pizza and cake.
The theme of the camp was based on the upcoming Olympic Games in France, so the Wolf Cubs, took part in a mini-Olympics with various events around the field including races, long jump and ‘hammer’ throwing representing the Olympic Motto of Faster, Higher, Stronger.
Many of the Wolf Cubs worked on completing the remaining tasks that were required to make their promise.
On the Saturday evening, we had a French themed meal with baguettes and cheese, however it wouldn’t be ‘French’ without us all trying frogs legs and snails cooked in garlic butter, and yes, the frogs legs did taste like chicken. The snails were fantastic, we have an excellent cook!
Sunday was our family day, all parents and siblings were invited up to camp for Mass and to witness the many boys making their promises as Wolf Cubs, followed by a family picnic. Each six performed a short show for the gathered crowd, and demonstrated their performing arts skills to much acclaim.
The Scouts set up a Hebert Course, which the Wolf Cubs and Scouts took part in, this included archery, cycling, climbing, crawling, jumping.
Despite having wonderful weather for most of the weekend, on Monday it rained, however this didn’t stop us from having fun. We even had ice cream (which we ate indoors)