We took the boys to the Cub Scout's Trail blazers again this year. They have a new director this year and it was not very organized. They had about half as many stations as last year and instead of each troop spending 30 minutes at each station they decided to have a free range style instead. So there were 3 groupings of stations and the kids were allowed to just roam within that grouping. So, if you wanted to spend your entire time at the shooting range you could. The problem with this idea is that there are too many kids and if you allow the kids to choose which station they want to spend their time at then ALL the kids want to do the same station and there isn't enough room for all of them. The volunteers quickly figured out this was not a good idea and had to limit the kids. It was chaotic and less fun than last year, but we still enjoyed it. Since Kaiden is older this year they allowed him to participate in more of the activities. They even let him shoot a BB gun for the first time (with Jason's help). He was pretty excited about that. Kaiden kept asking all day when he could go ride the BMX bikes, which he was way too small to ride on his own and Jason ended up having to pull him around the course. We had decided to take the RV camping up by Newport about a mile from the trail blazer camp the night before... so Jason and I had to take turns walking back to the car to let Piper out of her kennel and give her a chance to run around. We mainly did the BB guns, bow and arrows, sling shots, BMX bikes, play house/ jungle gym area and fire truck. After lunch we decided to skip the 3rd grouping and head back to our camp site. The rest of our troop decided to skip as well and head home.
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