Winter Campout

The winter campout that was on the sixth and the seventh was very fun.  We started by setting up camp. Then, some of the scouts, including me, helped build a snow cave. It already was started, but was small enough that I couldn't fit in it. By the end of the day, it had a big room inside it, and had another entrance leading into it from the other side. By night, there was another entrance, and at the morning, there was even another. I thought that when it had just two, it was perfect. I didn't help with the fourth one. But anyway, I'll go back to the night before. Dinner was very good. I might not have thought that it was good if I had it in the comfort of a warm home, but it was good. The things that made it good was that it was warm and spicy. Those two in a combination along with some hot chocolate, make you feel very, very warm.

Night

The sleep that night was terrible. I kept waking up in my burrito. The burrito is a foam pad, topped with two sleeping bags inside each other. The whole thing is wrapped in thick plastic, or in some varsity scouts' opinions, duct tape. Anyway, it is very comfortable, and very warm. My passed experience with burritos have been great. But this time, the plastic was just a little too long at the head. I usually like it just long enough where the snow falling during the night can't get in, but short enough that you can breathe cool air and the condensation collecting on your side of the plastic from your breath can't bother you. But instead, since it was too long, I couldn't breathe very well, and my face kept meeting cold condensation. Not very good. And during the night, a headache started....

Morning

I awoken by the smell of burning breakfast. Then I realized that I had a HUGE headache. It felt like a migraine, like the bad kinds I've had before, but when I got out of my burrito, it felt much, much, MUCH, worse. It felt like a migraine, the flu, being carsick, and half asleep at the same time. I was just so nauseous, that I could scream, and I felt like I was going to throw up. Luckily, one of the leaders had some Advil for me. I thought about it for a little while, and realized that my headache probably was caused by getting hit in the back of the head by a big chunk of ice while I helped work on the snow cave. It settled down a little while later, thankfully.

Later that morning, we all went snowshoeing. It was so fun! I enjoyed it so much. I felt like I was very, very out of shape. Actually, I didn't feel like I was out of shape, I knew that I was out of shape. I was pretty much the back of the pack. Even the eleven-year old scouts were way ahead of me. Everybody was. But my dad was nice, and stayed with me, even though I'm sure that he wanted to go faster. But I'm glad he loves me, and would think enough to do that for me. I still had a great time.

By the way, I still haven't missed a single day of Project 365. Not even any of the campout days, since I forgot to take one before I left. Well, if it weren't for my dad with his camera at the campout, I would have missed a day. Thanks again for letting me take a picture, dad!