Elliot at Camp Geronimo

 Elliot attended his first sleep away camp at Camp Geronimo! He reports that it was the best week of his life so far. He had an absolute blast working on his game design, chess, and cooking merit badges, and eating candles and all manner of treats. They did service projects, hunted crawdads, played gaga ball, built fires, and had a polar plunge. 

A significant detail is that my due date was right after camp, so there was a decent chance that she would be born while he was away at camp. I asked him if he wanted us to call him if she was born, but he decided that he wanted it to be a surprise for him when he came home. Spoiler- she was born in the early hours of his last day at camp, so he came home to a new sister!

Working on his cheese themed card game for the game design merit badge

Elliot reports that he "schooled Sean like 8 times in a row"

He got a lot of mileage out of the ball on an elastic string that he's holding

Polar plunge! They submerged in this ice tank after swimming a lap across the cold pool.

Ga-ga ball action shot

He came home dirty and delighted. I'm so glad that he's found a great group of friends in the Scouting program. 

There was an at home portion to the cooking merit badge. We were very pleased to have him cook several meals for us.