We had a Trailmates campout at Oso Lake over the weekend. It's a kinda lame campground whose best characteristic is that it's incredibly close -- about 10 minutes from home. But we have fun hanging with our friends, regardless of what else is going on.
There's a "lake", of course, but it's really a reservoir for reclaimed water, so there's no swimming, and we don't fish. (The guys that do fish didn't catch anything anyway.) We could have gone out and paddled around in a canoe, but, for some reason, the girls didn't want to -- sounded boring, I guess.
The camp is owned and run by the boy scouts, so there are "badge earning" activities that we could do: archery, BB guns, slingshots, and tomahawks. We've done the first three before, here two years ago and also at other places, but we'd never tried tomahawks before. But because it's run by the Boy Scouts, their program is designed to impart as much Safety as possible, by extracting out all the Fun. The kid they had running the tomahawk area was apparently a zombie (he sure had the "shamble" down), and worked under the philosophy that the slower he moved, the fewer tomahawks would be thrown, leaving fewer chances for anyone to get hurt. Or have any fun.
On Friday night I set up all the equipment so we could have a movie, but this time I also brought along our Wii, 'cuz I'd gotten "Beatles Rock Band" for my birthday the day before. There weren't many girls there, 'cuz most of them went out for dinner, but we had some fun playing that for a while, and then we watched "Across the Universe", a movie based around a bunch of Beatles songs. Kind of a theme going, there.
On Saturday night we had our "Trailmate Talent Show", which of course failed pretty miserably since none of the girls knew about it, nor would any of them have wanted to demonstrate their talent even if they had. But I managed to get several of them to come up and tell jokes into the microphone, and Geneva and Acacia played their Canon, and Geneva and I played "Ashokan Farewell". Then, since there wasn't anything else, I played for a while: "Waltzing With Bears", "Lollipop Tree", etc. It was great fun for me -- the kids are enthusiastic, and most of the dads seem to enjoy it. The sound was good out there in the quiet, and I was singing quite well. But it was getting cold, so people started to adjourn to the campfire, and I quit before I was all alone out there.
So all in all, a pretty good, if low-key, campout.
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