Tramp Camp & Mess Dinner (DECEMBER 2012)

By Matthew Howard

Eagles Patrol.

We arrived at the scout hut at 8.15pm on Friday 7 December 2012 we waited for everyone to arrive than we played games including table tennis. Before we went to bed we made our camps out of cardboard, tables and rope we then laid out sleeping bags out in our camps and then we tried to get to sleep but everyone was chattering and in the middle of the night one of the camps collapsed and they had to make it again.

The next day we took our camps down and had breakfast then a couple of us went to Iceland the shop and got the food for the mess dinner. Then we took the minibus and headed to the boat house. At the boat house we got dressed in our gear and life jackets and then took the boats out of the boat house and pulled them to the river bank. We then rowed the boats to a different part of the river bank. There were lots of different boats and I rowed in 2 of them. After lunch we then towed the boats and put them in the boat house.

Later we got changed in to our full uniform and had the mess dinner which consisted of Turkey and all the trimmings and it was delicious! Later there were speeches and toasts from all of older scouts and Leaders.  Later we changed into our ‘disco clothes’ and danced the night away until our parents came and picked us up. It was epic!