Last weekend was our ward's annual Father and Son's Camp out. It was held at Camp Merriweather which is a really cool campsite located on the Oregon coast right outside of Tillamook and the weather was perfect. Our campsite was on a cliff that overlooked the ocean. While the Oregon coast is not as fun in my opinion as the Southern Californian coast that I grew up with, we wear pants and jackets to the coast here instead of swimsuits, it is prettier with the forest growing right up to the ocean.
We got there on Friday afternoon and after we set up camp we went to the lake that is located in the camp. Last year we got in trouble for taking the canoes out of their storage shed and using them. Something about liability and worrying about being sued if something happened and other woosie stuff like that. Anyway, the guy that reserved the campsite told us that there was a mix up and they weren't expecting us so the scout staff was not there and wouldn't be there until the morning. Since the staff wasn't there I thought that was a great opportunity to take out the canoes. So me and a couple other people hiked over to the storage shed and grabbed some canoes and paddled out on the lake. It really is a beautiful site being on the lake in the canoe. Merrick wanted me to take him for a ride but he had already put on his swimsuit and was catching salamanders in the lake with his friends and I wasn't going to get in the canoe with a soaking wet kid, so he didn't get to go on the lake this year.
That night we roasted hot dogs over the camp fire and then everyone made smores. It is always fun to sit around the campfire and talk with the other guys that are there and watch as the kids see how long they can keep a flaming marshmallow on the stick before it falls off. These kids are a bunch of pyros,
The next morning the ward provided a breakfast of pancakes, eggs, and sausages, which were really good. After that we went down to the beach and the kids played in the ocean, or rather, tried to see how close they could get to a wave before running away and hoping the water didn't get them. Merrick was not successful and ended up soaked by the 40 degree ocean water. Merrick also played in the sand with his cousins. They took turns playing "dead man." This, as you can see in the picture, consists of burying one kid in the sand, having the other kids shout, "Dead man, dead man, come alive on the count of five." and then having that kid bust out of the sand and chase the other kids. A little morbid, but they seem to enjoy it. Merrick also had fun jumping from tide pool to tide pool.
All in all it was a great weekend and really tuckered us all out.
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