My daughter Ashlyn and I had a great time at Fall Outing this past Sunday (10/28) with our 2nd year Princess tribe "The Dancing Turtles."
The Great Spirit gave us beautiful Fall weather -- cool and breezy.
Our great program staff Bobby "Big Hare" Harris, Matt "Moose" Strickland, and Andrew "Salty Dog" Plyler did a great job organizing the event. I think it was a great move to move the 3rd year tribes to Saturday. In years past, it was just ridiculously crowded, especially during the ceremony.
Since our tribe has 3 new pairs in the program, we took our 2-mile hike to help them earn their 1st year feather. I didn't fall in the mud like I did last year. I still can't live that one down.
The ceremony was special for Ashlyn and myself. It's something that we'll never forget.
I really liked meeting Emma "Pink Panther" after the ceremony. She was shy, but brave enough to come up and talk to the Chief. No doubt she'll be on the zipline come Spring.
We enjoyed meeting all the friendly girls of "The Dancing Fireflies" on the soccer field who came up and talked to Ashlyn and me as we waited for our tribe to arrive. What a bunch of cool girls.
Just how many "Dancing" Princess tribes are there? Within 30 feet of our picnic table on the soccer field, I bet we ran into 3 or 4 "Dancing" tribes? "Dancing Turtles", "Dancing Fireflies", "Dancing Daisies", "Dancing Geckos".
Did you get info about the Chief's Challenge on the back deck? You can get the Chief's Challenge flyer here.
Since our program is so large, we have to break up Fall Outing into four separate weekends. Because of this, I get to do this 3 more weeks. I'm already looking forward to next Sunday. I'm bringing Ashlyn and my son Aaron this next Sunday.
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Chief Red Cloud,
My daughter, Little Bear, and I also had a great time Sunday with our second-year tribe, the Lion Queens. We had a nice hike (only a couple of wet shoes), a fast-paced Dads v. girls hockey game and a lot of fun on the ropes course.
But the most impressive sight was the torch line. The second-year tribes came on strong in their first stint with torch duty.
Great fun. I, too, am fortunate to be a Nation's officer this year and look forward to being back at Fall Outing with Little Bear and my son, Kicking Bear, the next few weeks.
Big Bear
P.S. Love the blog. I look forward to more electronic "smoke signals" this year.
Hey Big Bear! Thanks for the comment! Our tribe ran out of time to play hockey, something my daughter was looking forward to. We'll have to do that another weekend!
There's nothing like turning the corner and seeing the torches in total silence other than the tom-tom. It makes the hair on my arms stand up.
How-How!
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