Yesterday, I headed out to a camp in the middle of no where so Edward and Henry could enjoy a shooting sport camp. They came back this evening with stories to tell of their adventure. It was funny listening to the two boys talk about the first night. Edward said that Dustin talked a lot and just when he thought they were going to get to shoot a gun, Dustin talked some more! LOL...the patience of a 9 year old is not abundant! But they finally did get to shoot a gun. They shot a paint gun while going down a zip line. Henry and Edward were proud of their score of 8 in this first challenge. I am not sure how that measured up with the other campers but I am impressed. I would not have been able to shoot at all...dark...zip line...gun...not a combination I would enjoy, but they loved it! Then today they had the opportunity to shoot recurve bows, throw shovels, knives, stones and tomahawks, shoot various rifles. At one point they were shooting at targets that exploded...they were not told ahead of time so imagine their surprise when it happened. They were divided up into teams to gain points for a prize at the end of the day. It sounds like Henry and Edward enjoyed their time and gained points for their different teams. Henry's team one in the end but it sounds like it was an even race until the end. (Not a lot of pictures but might find some later on a website to share.)
While they were shooting guns, the rest of us woke up early this morning to go to a birding event. We learned bout birding through various activities set up the university students. It was a little chilly so we got off to a rough start but it soon warmed up enough to enjoy the event. We saw our good friend Tamberly from the Forest Service. She gave us several new resources to use with our wildlife group. 
Then we got to go through a bird Olympics to learn about the senses and movement of birds. We learned about how birds have different types of beaks to eat their food. We went on a bird hike and found several birds of interest, including American Kestrel Yellow-belly sap sucker, Warbler, Mourning dove, Phoebe, and more! We came back just in time for Sean to run through the Bird Olympics course with Tamberly, while Brendan sorted through bird cards. Then we went go to arts & crafts to make our own version of bird with adaptations of our choice. We left the event after a yummy bird snack.We got home to fix lunch. We knew we would be gone to pick up the boys at dinner time, so we made a big meal at this time. We were happy to use some of the delicious eggplant picked from the garden. We made Eggplant Parmesan and did not even think twice about having seconds! It was so good!
We got back from picking up Henry and Edward (listened to their stories of camp all the way home!) just in time to get everyone cleaned up and into bed. A great weekend! Hoping to continue it with Religious Ed and Mass tomorrow. An early morning so I should get to bed!
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